The second century of the Skeptics’ meetings has begun! Ionian Enchantment hosts a special African Edition to “seize the opportunity to promote African skepticism because the continent, you see, needs skepticism.” Well, tell us about it Michael!

Orac over at Respectful Insolence is hosting the 100th edition of the Skeptics’ Circle.

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).

Yes, yes, I know I got this tip from “the quackometer” but I just had to blatantly re-post this particular one as it blew me away when I read it! So, here it is, Healing Water to make you anything you ever desired!

As Pulse reported today, homeopathic prescriptions have halved over the last two years. This probably comes as a result of a more active stance scientists and medical doctors have taken against non evidence-based medicine.

Meet Dana Ullman: a spam robot posting the same comments over and over again whenever an article about homeopathy pops up! Even the ones that are actually against homeopathy!

This week includes a good dosage of Bad Astronomy ranging from astrology and crop circles and their infiltration in academia, some typical psychic quackery, and some actual science reporting on behaviour of ‘cheaters’ in honey bee colonies. Let’s roll!