Oxford Skeptics in the Pub
In my continuing quest to make The Quackometer the Internet’s premier resource for all your quackbusting needs, I have now taken it to Twitter.
If you don’t understand the title of this blog post, then you had better go and do something else now. Where have you been? Do you use the web? Did...
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Some of the quackometer functionality has not been working too well over the past few months. The Am I a Quack or Not? function was very poorly and only working for a few searches per day. The reason being that the operation depended on some very old and unsupported Google technology that was about...
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Please bear with me as the new quackometer goes through its re-birthing pangs. Transfering to a new, better, more helpful and cuddlier hosting provider is taking time.
The Quackometer Engine and other facilities may well be out of action for a short while. Features will come on line over the next few days. Expect bugs...
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At last, the Quackometer has been banned by the Net Authority. I feel justified and vindicated.
This website has been investigated by Net Authority, and has been found to be in violation of the Internet Acceptable Use Policy by posting the following kinds of content:
Hateful material
Blasphemy
Offensive political material
Bestiality and/or interracial relationships
Be cautioned!...
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I have just installed a new tool on this site called Snap Shots that enhances links with visual previews of the destination site. There is no need to leave the quackometer to see the web sites I am talking about. You can see excerpts of Wikipedia articles, if I can’t find real references for...
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As promised, the first of a number of small improvements to the site.
If you are one of those few people that actually read my musings in the blog, you can now subscribe to an email alert. You will receive an email when something is updated on the blog. Better than watching girls squabble on...
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As you can see, the Quackometer has had a makeover. This is the first in a series of improvements I hope to make in the next few months.
Please bear with me as I iron out the problems. I do not have access to hoards of testing monkeys to get this site right. Don’t hesitate...
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Le Canard Noir is currently working on a site revamp and this will now include a shopping area for all your favourite quackometer products. You have already had a sneak preview of the t-shirt range.
Now, I can give you a teaser for the range of compulsory site mugs….
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The Quackometer has been up and running for just about a year and has seen some serious traffic increases over the past six months. Starting off with just a few hits per day, the daily unique visits now stand in the many hundreds, with a peak recently of several thousand. Cripes! What started off...
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A criticism often levied at the quackometer is that it is very broad brush. Fair enough. It is often quite general in what it says, but it is only a bit a web script after all. The quackometer is intended to be a spring board into the exploration of health claims. Improvements in...
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