Sense About Science

I’ve mentioned Sense about Science before–it’s a group in the UK that works to block companies and hucksters from misrepresenting themselves as “scientific” when they are just selling pseudoscience.
A new initiative of theirs is to examine specific companies’ claims for the actual science involved. You can download the SAS report “There Goes the Science Bit” [...]

The Economist and habeas corpus

I absolutely love that the Economist is free online (although, more to read–oh dear), and thought I would bring this article to your attention:
Civil Liberties and detention without trial
“Freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention, coupled with the right to challenge it in an independent court—known as habeas corpus in common-law countries like Britain [...]