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50 for 10 - support the Guardian
This is a transcript* of my report from Episode 12 of the Pod Delusion, itself based on a very early blog entry of mine. I’m very proud, as James O’Malley says in his introduction to the piece, to be...
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The 7 Greatest Christmas Songs You've Never Heard - #5
#5 - The First Noel by Bright Eyes When we got engaged, I bought my wife a beautiful ring with an unusual marquise cut diamond. She bought me a pair of trousers and Cassadaga by Bright Eyes.While they...
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Libel reform campaign #libelreform
Earlier in the year, it was my absolute pleasure to go to a London Skeptics in the Pub campaign meeting in support of Simon Singh. Simon has been sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association....
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The 7 Greatest Christmas Songs You've Never Heard - #4
#4 - Donna & Blitzen by Badly Drawn Boy This is the only entry on my list not from a dedicated Christmas album. It’s also probably the most mainstream of the tracks, as it features in the very good...
View ArticlePod Delusion - Episode 13
Much great content in this week's Pod Delusion - absolutely none of which was delivered by me.The whole things is worth listening to - but I'd highly recommend Gareth Buxton's excellent Phone Geek...
View ArticlePod Delusion Episode 14 - Winterval Special
Ho Ho Ho - it's the Winterval special of the Pod Delusion, including a call to arms by James O'Malley, a stunning and seasonal obituary by George Poles, and some festive carols dotted throughout the...
View ArticleWinterval Carols - unedited
Just got the embed link for the carols - enjoy our dulcet tones!
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The 7 Greatest Christmas Songs You've Never Heard - #3
#3 - You’re A Mean One, Mr Grinch by The Asylum Street SpankersGetting close to the end of the countdown, now, at which point I resolve to get back to some more skeptical topics.Speaking of which,...
View ArticleFloundering in denial
This has been a long, strange week, centring around the words denialist, and various signficant figures in the little bit of my world that is web based. I've heard and read a great deal, but I don't...
View ArticleO Large Hadron Collider
Here is the one that got away before the Pod Delusion went live - via the magic of Ipadio. We didn't put it in because it's a dodgy-ish recording and needed James's genius to polish up the lyrics and...
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The 7 Greatest Christmas Songs You've Never Heard - #2
#2 - Maybe at Christmastime by DrugstorePenultimate entry, and i'm forced to ask: Drugstore... what happened to them? They are best known for their 1998 hit "El President", which is best known because...
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The 7 Greatest Christmas Songs You've Never Heard - #1
#1 - It's Clichéd to be Cynical at Christmas by Half Man Half BiscuitAnd so to the finish, with John Peel's favourite band helping us over the line. Half Man Half Biscuit are muicians in the folk...
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The Greatest Christmas Song You've Never Heard - Lifetime Achievement Award
The Albion Christmas BandI almost forgot to put this up. There is one band whose raison d'etre is to record traditional folk Christmas music, or Christmas music using folk arrangements. Be warned - you...
View ArticleThe Skeptics Who Never Were
First, a midweek plug for the Pod Delusion review of 2009. Again some cracking stuff - Salim Fahdley's report on dodgy bomb detectors is superb, as are Martyn Norris's piece on quotes, and the Gaming...
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DJ Grothe on the Pod Delusion
It may be hard to believe, but I do have a life outside the Pod Delusion. However, today’s episode is the most exciting for me so far, as it contains a world exclusive interview I did yesterday with DJ...
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Denialism, Homeopathy & 10:23
This week I signed up properly to the 10:23 campaign. It seeks to raise awareness of exactly what homeopathy is. You can contribute in a number of ways - sign a petition, get yourself a Twitter Twibbon...
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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
I have just had the pleasure of reading Neil Gaiman's latest children's novel - The Graveyard Book.Certainly, it draws heavily on The Jungle Book, a debt Gaiman acknowledges in his epilogue. It isn't...
View ArticleHomeopaths - What will happen at the 10:23 Overdose?
On Saturday 30 January at 10:23am, 300 skeptics will simultaneously taking an overdose of homeopathic pills as part of the 10:23 campaign. The aim is to raise awareness that the pills have nothing in...
View ArticleAlternative Medicine on Trial & Sharing a platform
Well, wasn't that fun?I am of course talking about the 10:23 overdose.I attended the London event and if you haven't yet, catch up with the whole thing on the Pod Delusion special It's virtually all...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Pod Delusion - The 21st Edition
Yesterday saw the release of the 21st proper episode of what is now firmly established as everyone's favorite newsy, political, skeptical, liberal weekly podcast with ska theme tune and numerous...
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The anti-10:23 protest
There are two main benefits of working in Westminster. One is the newly founded and quite brilliant Westminster Skeptics in the Pub, of which more another time. The other is that I’m very close to the...
View ArticleOn Douglas Adams
Have I mentioned that there is a Douglas Adams memorial lecture this week in aid of Save the Rhino?I did a Pod Delusion interview last week with this year's speaker, Marcus du Sautoy, to publicise it -...
View ArticleTAM London 2010 - Who I'd like to see
A small bird is twittering that this year's TAM London may take place on the third weekend in October.I didn't make it last year, and I really, really want to go so I'm waiting expectantly for more...
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"Big Pharma is all around you" - Celebrating WHAW
[To celebrate World Homeopathy Awareness Week, here is a world first - the full transcript of a secret meeting at the Society of Homoepaths at which a new recruit, Neo, is being inducted. He is taken...
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A new arrival!
A short post to formally announce the birth of my adorable son Alexander Owen Douglas Treadway on 5 July 2010 at 18:08 weighing an eye-watering 9lbs 9oz. After a short stay in hospital, he and mum are...
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