Sciencetics is a podcast...

...that aims to battle pseudoscience, superstition, and related nonsense while spreading blatant lies about their practitioners.

Pay attention. We're about to educate the shit out of you.

Flash Episode 012a: Darwin Day

Darwin Day: the holiday on which humanists and scientists drink the blood and eat the flesh of our long-dead lord. No wait.. that's barbaric and repulsive. We just eat cake.

Charles Darwin, eater of souls.

Episode 012: Homeopathy

Homeopathy is like sociopathy, in that its practitioners have no conscience. They claim to be able to treat any disease, including those for which real medicine has found no cure. This offering of false hope is wack, and so is your face.

Science-based Medicine:


A detailed essay on homeopathy's worthlessness from Quackwatch	The Scientific Evidence on Homeopathy by David Ramey. Spoiler alert: there is none.

Crap-based Medicine:


The National Center for Homeopathy, featuring daguerreotypes of (alleged) goat rapist Samuel Hahnemann.	hpathy.com. Now featuring no omeo.

Episode 011: Satanism

Child sacrifices, drinking goat blood, summoning demons. These are good ice breakers. But are they the province of Satanists, or just inventions of Fundamentalist Christians, the mainstream media, and Hollywood? Answer: They are inventions of Fundamentalist Christians, the mainstream media, and Hollywood. Now you don't have to listen to this episode.

Stuff:


The Religious Tolerance Project's entry on the Church of Satan.	The Church of Satan. These guys sound like a lot of fun.

Summary of the Satanic Panic. 1980s: accusations, lawsuits, Geraldo. 1990s: science, countersuits, Geraldo apologizes.

Satanists have their own radio station! How cute!

Episode 010: Listener Feedback

Thank you for the feedback you've sent so far. We could have done it without you. And we did. In this episode, we answer your letters and leave you lacking both dignity and pants. Also, the Sciencetics Store is open! Finally, you have a chance to do some unpaid advertising for us.

Episode 009: Flip Flopping Scientists?

Why can't scientists make up their minds about anything? Because that's how science works, dumbass. Porter explains how scientific progress is made, and why the public should be grateful and worshipful of scientists, AKA gods on earth.

Scientific Literature Searches:


arXiv, hosted by Cornell. 450,000+ articles in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics.	PubMed, hosted by U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. Life Sciences search engine.

CiteSeer, hosted by Penn State. 750,000+ articles primarily in Computer and Information Science.	Google Scholar. All academic literature, scientific and otherwise. If you can't find it here, it's probably bullshit.