Category: Skepticism
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Kids’ Book: Religion is Evilism
Check it out–for a mere 12 Euro, you can buy, Wo bitte geht’s zu Gott?, fragte das kleine Ferkel, a book that is reportedly causing a stir for its depiction of the world’s major religions. This children’s book is pitched to atheists who wish to indoctrinate/inoculate their children against religion: The book tells the story…
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The End of the James Randi Challenge
After ten years the James Randi Educational Foundation is discontinuing its 1 million dollar paranormal challenge. The James Randi Educational Foundation Million-Dollar Challenge will be discontinued 24 months from this coming March 6th, and those prize funds will then be available to generally add to our flexibility. This move will free us to do many…
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Skeptics’ Circle Number 77 – White Coat Underground
White Coat Underground has the overmedicalized edition. I’m pleased to see Happy Jihad House of Pancakes arguing for more skepticism in the humanities as part of the circle. And a great post on epidemiology and autism from Andrea. Orac had some important things to say about consensus, and just to clarify my position on how…
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Skeptics’ Circle Number 76
Good for Martin Hosting the Skeptics’ Circle and keeping out the cranks. I’m fond of Whiskey Before Breakfasts’ entry on just whether the 20th century truly was the bloodiest, and Knudsens News straight-faced description of the failure of doctors to meet chiropractic standard of care. Enjoy!
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Cectic, keeping the fight against dogmatic parentism alive
I’m in DC this week working for Dr. Mom and getting my physical exam skills back up to snuff, so I’ll be a little quiet. In the meantime, Cectic is keeping the dream alive: I love these guys.
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What was in Criss Angel’s envelope?
I watched the season finale of phenomenon – the show in which mentalists compete to see who is the next “phenomenon” – and Criss Angel did skeptics everywhere proud with the contents of the envelope.
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74th Skeptics’ Circle – Med Journal Watch
Med Journal Watch has it up. I must admit some sadness that yet again one of my skeptic colleagues has fallen for Sandy Szwarc’s nonsense though. People, figure this out, she’s not a real skeptic. They don’t make blanket statements like this: Hearing that a study found some food, exposure or physical characteristic is associated…
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Fight on Phenomenon!
Last week you may remember I watched phenomenon with eye out for Uri Geller’s nonsense, and I was pleasantly surprised to find Criss Angel playing the skeptic pretty well. Well this week’s was awesome! Jim Callahan does a pretty cheesy psychic bit, with some really terrible acting, and it’s so bad that Angel calls him…
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How to triage nonsense
Both Orac and MarkCC have been having a blast tearing to shreds virtually every aspect of the latest nonsensical piece by Dennis Byrne based on this idiotic study at JPANDS. One thing struck me in the two analyses, was MarkCC’s emphasis on the idea of triage in assessing the scientific literature. This is fundamentally a…