This is bizarre to say the least. Fiona Phillips at the Mirror (yes, yes, this bastion of accurate news reporting, but anyway) presents her belief that Prince Charles will become a favorite among people -because apparently “he minds about people” and “he put [sic] his money where his mouth is when […] he set up the Prince’s Trust“.

A favorite methodology amongst cranks and woo-meisters is to take legitimate scientific research, and distort or misrepresent its findings until they suit the crank’s presumptions and belief system. And since we all know that Homeopathy is the biggest branch of woo, let’s see how they torture scientific evidence using a huge manufacturer as a use case: Boiron.

Keyword: evidence. In this post we will explore how the whale.to website (in familiar pseudoscientific methodology) misrepresents scientific evidence in order to advance their agenda of eliminating vaccines (and probably all science-based medicine?).

Ben Goldacre, of “The Guardian” fame, currently sits top of the charts in Amazon book sales in the Popular Science category. His (very) recent book “Bad Science” was an immediate hit, something that is both comforting and a bit unexpected (at least for me).

Many of you might be familiar with this well of stupidity and misinformation that is the whale.to website. It is a centre for propagation of bad science and misleading information that have probably led a number of people into rejecting vaccination thus resulting in the recent outbreaks in the UK and US. So let’s expose some of their ludicrous ideas!

It is that time again for me to present to my fanatic audience, the posts that stood apart during my latest safari in the science blogosphere! What’s on the menu this {week, fortnight, month, random}? We have a little bit of politics including the vice-presidential debate and McCain conceding defeat in Michigan; the missing basic science in statistical analysis of clinical trials; while at the same time Happy Jihad wonders “Could God create a rock so heavy that he could not lift it?“

Lots of concentrated woo so be careful: the top five misinformation and ignorance campaigns.

The Internet needs a way to help people separate rumour from real science, said Tim Berners-Lee -the creator of the World Wide Web.