by Richard Elen
20 September 2010
It’s been suggested that politically, the views of the British people at large are some way to the Left of the major parties, which have been pushed rightwards since the Thatcher years at least partially as a result of pressure from the popular press. Many of those voters have gravitated to the Liberal Democrats. However, if they see the Lib Dems as having “sold out” to the Tories in the coalition government, where will they go?
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by Richard Elen
18 September 2010
I’m all in favour of “skeptics” debunking charlatans such as mediums and pedlars of quack remedies, and taking pseudoscience apart. But when “skepticism” reaches the frontiers of real science, it sometimes seems to fall into dogma — for example, suggesting that paranormal abilities and phenomena do not exist, whereas in reality we simply don’t know whether they exist or not. “Skeptics” and popularisers of science need to be careful of this in their enthusiasm to debunk the obvious fraudsters.
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