December 2010
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Matthias Rath – steal this chapter – Bad Science →
The Doctor Will Sue You Now
This chapter did not appear in the original edition of this book, because for fifteen months leading up to September 2008 the vitamin-pill entrepreneur Matthias Rath was suing me personally, and the Guardian, for libel. This strategy brought only mixed success. For all that nutritionists may fantasise in public that any critic is somehow a pawn of big pharma, in...
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Las extinciones están sincronizadas
14/Jul/06
(Neofronteras) - Según un modelo estadístico las distintas poblaciones de especies animales se extinguen al mismo tiempo si un factor externo común, o inductor de extinción, es aplicado sobre ellas simultáneamente.
Ese inductor puede ser cualquier cosa como una glaciación, un calentamiento global, erupciones volcánicas, impacto de meteoritos, predadores, o caza a gran escala...
WatchA controversy has been stirred up, 60 years after the end of the war, over how Nazis should be depicted. Should they merely be treated as objects of historical enquiry, or is it legitimate to want to enter into their minds?
In the new film Downfall, Bruno Ganz has put on a military overcoat, moustache and hat in order to perform Hitler. The makers of Dr. Goebbels Speaks employ a different...