Recent content by robdean

There is a great book by Ben Goldacre called 'Bad Science' which addresses a lot of these issues. Also lots of great stuff on the QuackWatch website. I think the main reason for lack of regulation is ignorance. Many legislators have no more insight into scientific method than regular folks...

To try and make it more intuitive one can reflect that despite one's 'speed' at the equator, one only completes a single rotation in 24 hours. Picture driving a car at 100mph around a circular circuit with a circumference of 2400 miles - you're moving fast but you won't experience much...

The topic header and first post seem a bit of a grab-bag of things - maybe I'm not bright enough to intuit how they are related. But, erm... Speed is defined in terms of time. In what independent units could the 'speed of time' be expressed? It would all boil down to time moving at 'x seconds...