Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
UPDATE – Teachers & homeschoolers: Evolution has a free PDF Learning Resource Material booklet I consider myself to be very, very fortunate to know and be inspired by Junior Skeptic’s Daniel Loxton. Which is why I’ve been dithering and wiggling with impatience to tell you the news about his new book… and then today, an [...]
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Since it was asked online in regards to the 10:23 campaign – which you should be checking out and signing up to support! – “has there been an effort to do a ‘mass suicide’ by homeopathic remedies before?” Australian Skeptics 2004 Convention – Homeopathy The Great Skeptic Attempted Mass Suicide Using Homeopathic Crap: Just how [...]
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It’s an essay in a book! There’s an “Australian Book of Atheism” (don’t quote me on the title!) being compiled by Warren Bonnet of Embiggen Books! [If you're confused, I'm the 'Podblack' on Twitter that's next to the 'TimMinchin' who is also on the Twitter - wahhhhhhh!!! KristyVensson is a big part of the 'Rise [...]
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William Shatner asks John Edward if he has ever considered that he may be psychotic and not psychic!
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Thanks to Sean the Blogonaut who is currently composing an article for the Australian Atheist publication — I’ve made a short statement for today’s Skeptic Zone podcast to keep people up-to-date. Here’s the video that Sean found of Leo in 2009, in a case of “witch exorcist” Pastor Helen Akpabio storming the Calabar Cultural Center [...]
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The Center for Inquiry is accepting disaster-relief donations through its S.H.A.R.E. program to support those providing care to the survivors of the 7.0 earthquake that struck Jan. 12 near the capital city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. S.H.A.R.E. has been recently renamed the Skeptics and Humanist Aid and Relief Effort and has now become a program of [...]
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I’ve written before at length why I don’t drink alcohol, on a post called “My Not Drinking Alcohol Is Not Your Problem“. One of the things that I probably didn’t emphasise enough was that a contributing factor to not drinking was discovering how many of my high-school students talked about being pressured to drink alcohol. [...]
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