Bad Maths with Dr Nick

Finding dodgy science is a bit like having “spider-sense”. I look at something seemingly innocuous and an alarm goes off in my head, and it might take me twenty minutes to find it, but I know there’ll be some pseudo-scientific nonsense if I just keep looking. Thus it was with Dr Niko Tiliopoulos and his equations. The goldmine of bad science that is the Carpe Diem webpage threw up the article: “Carpe Diem has teamed up with well-being expert Penny Hunking and willpower psychologist Niko Tiliopoulos to produce the definitive guide to sticking to resolutions.”. Sure enough, it was there, and before long the following email was sent.

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