Articles tagged with "concepts"

Freedoms

7 March 2022

Just what are freedoms that the protest groups are saying are being trampled on and restricted? Two senior lecturers in Psychology at the University of Canterbury wrote a good piece on The Conversation, defining what is meant by freedom - the concepts of negative and positive liberty.

Resene Promotes Colour Therapy

16 August 2015

Most of the serious claims have already been removed, after I talked to them on the phone, but Resene still talk about crystal energy and other nonsense concepts.

Resistance to science

1 May 2011

Alison Campbell reviews a study of why so many struggle with scientific concepts.

If at First You Don't Succeed...

1 August 1996

Yes, it is frustrating, even positively nauseating. There you are struggling day in day out, doing your best and striving for the real breakthrough in science. Yet the real breakthrough never comes. Lack of talent, originality, or just not the right friends? Who knows? And who cares?