It’s been about a week since lunar perigee, but I’ve still got one or two of these in me. Today we join Oz and Matt exploring a terrestrial phenomenon that rears it’s yolky head at every celestial occurrence. That’s right, balancing eggs. So far I haven’t seen anybody claim that you could balance an egg during the [...]
Read The Intro In Part One of our tale, Craig is visited by the Ghost of Woo Reasoning, namely Bertrand Russell’s Teapot. Makes sense. After all, both are unfalsifiable, imaginary things. The Ghost of Woo Reasoning was almost Ferdinand’s Booger, from the short-lived series I did on anecdotal vs. experimental evidence a while back. Acupuncture [...]
Be sure to have your handy Sci-ence.org Red Flags of Quackery handy! This is the start of one of those comics that just grew and grew as I was drawing it. Each time I thought I’d end it, I’d have to stop and think, “Well, I need to add a few panels to address this thing or [...]
Believe it or not, today’s comic is actually part of a larger work. See, I promised a follow-up to the popular piece on rice cookers, and I plan to deliver. My research into some more advanced models led me to rice cooker king Zojirushi, where I had the pleasure of speaking with marketing manager Marilyn [...]
Today we continue our talk on anecdotal evidence by exposing its weakness. The problem with most anecdotal claims is that it is likely to be unfalsifiable. What does it mean? Let’s say your friend Tucker says he saw a flying saucer the other night. He took no photographs and there was nobody else to corroborate [...]
Hypothetically, if a stream of feline sputum looked up at you with glassy eyes and said ‘HEY!’, would you tell anybody? I imagine you might pinch yourself first, or make sure your medication wasn’t switched by that mischievous troll who lives in your stove. Its understandable, claiming that a cat booger screamed a hurried greeting, [...]