August 2017
Here are the topics I chose to talk about on RadioLive for the month. Some of them may not have been mentioned on the radio due to a lack of time.
Show
August 6, 2017
Haunted Doll "strikes" again
Debbie Merrick bought a doll
3 min read, 415 words. Continue Reading...for £5 and then placed the doll on eBay, after making international news by talking about the doll being haunted. Apparently the doll scratched Debbie's husband, although the doll was not seen causing the scratches - the husband simply woke up with scratches on himself. The determination that the doll caused the scratches came from a psychic friend. Categories: Pseudoscience , Tags: Ghost
Daughter conned into selling her possessions
Lori Harris from the UK has sold all her belongings
2 min read, 340 words. Continue Reading...to pay for treatment for her mother, Lisa, who has stage 4 ovarian cancer. The Go Fund Me page for the fundraising effort for this treatment, which asks for £200,000, talks of needing money for immunotherapy in Germany, and links to a great article describing how this new therapy has the potential to allow us to treat some cancers in a novel way. Categories: Pseudoscience, CAM , Tags: Cancer
Finally, a skeptical story about Lotto
There was a nice story
1 min read, 140 words. Continue Reading...about the 30th anniversary of the Lotto this week from Stuff. The article talked about how the fact some numbers come up more often than others is likely chance (Lotto take this seriously, and apparently regularly wash and weigh the balls to ensure there's no bias). The difference in frequency between the most drawn ball, number 1 (16.91%) and the least drawn ball number 34 (13.97%) is not huge, and I suspect the number frequency draws a bell curve. Categories: Pseudoscience , Tags: Lottery
Jacinta Ardern Conspiracy!
Vinny Eastwood has suggested
2 min read, 252 words. Continue Reading...that the new head of the Labour Party is in league with the Freemasons: Categories: Conspiracy , Tags: Freemasons
August 27, 2017
Naturopath Implicated in Cancer Deaths
Stuff has a great article
3 min read, 588 words. Continue Reading...about a Naturopath who has been involved in treating the cancer of two patients who have died recently. The patients have both spoken out about how they think they made a mistake in trusting the naturopath. Categories: Pseudoscience, CAM , Tags: Naturopathy
Satanic Panic
It looks like the book has finally been closed
4 min read, 644 words. Continue Reading...on one of the most famous Satanic Panic cases in the US - that of the Kellers.