Category: Carnivals
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The 111th Skeptics’ circle, featuring that creepy Sham-Wow guy
I have no idea what possessed Action Skeptics to use the Sham Wow guy to present this week’s entries, but it’s amusing. Check it! In particular I like ICBS everywhere on this thermography nonsense, and Living better skeptically on yet another cancer quack. It’s very upsetting when quack modalities defraud people of hard-earned money. It’s…
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Skeptics’ Circle 102 at Happy Jihad’s House of Pancakes
Please check out this week’s skeptics’ circle at Happy Jihad’s House of Pancakes. Of note, I liked Dr Austs’ post on the human toll of HIV/AIDS denialism, it is stirring. I also found the Skeptic’s field guide particularly interesting. I would have two suggestions. One would be to prioritize by frequency of use or rhetorical…
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Carnivalia
Just a quick rundown. Praxis #4, a surprisingly interesting carnival about academic life, is up at Martin’s place. Grand Rounds is up at Distractible Mind Tangled Bank is up at Ames’s place. And Skeptics’ Circle No. 100 is coming soon to Orac’s place! Stay tuned!
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Tangled Bank #111
Welcome to Tangled Bank #111! Today’s entries are presented without comment, but with poetry, a truly remarkable natural, albeit human, phenomenon, or to quote Love and Rockets: You can’t go against natureBecause when you doGo against natureIt’s part of nature too. In the umbra, the tunnel, when the mind went wombtomb, then it was real…
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Tangled Bank is on the way…
The Tangled Bank, the carnival for folks who love their science blogging, is coming here to denialism blog August 6th. We are the emergency fill-in hosts but promise to do a bang-up job. Send in those entries (to PZ, click the badge above).
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Skeptic’s Circle Number 87 is up
It’s a must read over at action skeptics. Dirty limerick skepticism! Of note, Orac on quackademic medicine, and Greta Christina on the science of sexuality.
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Tangled Bank #105
The new Tangled Bank is up over at The Beagle Project, and as usual, it’s a great read. Also, I want to give a quick shout-out to my internet buddy Ames who’s hit the blogosphere running, so to speak, with his first carnival post.
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Skeptics’ Circle Number 85
Andrea’s Buzzing about the latest skeptic’s circle. I’d point out in particular Blake Stacey’s discussion of the real expelled, scientists who challenge creationism. And I’d also recommend the Pap smear to Skepchic. It makes sense in context.
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82nd Skeptics’ Circle at Happy Jihad’s House of Pancakes
Check it out, the genesis of the Skeptics’ Circle. In particular I admire PalMD’s willingness to read JPANDS for the sake of the cause. Yes, it’s as bad as you thought.