Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Interesting discussion (and clearly, rather tongue-in-cheek) stemming from a post on the Derren Brown blog in response to Dr Chris French’s article (‘Spoon Bending For Beginners‘) in the Guardian. …Don’t panic. I believe this is a development to be warmly welcomed, although I should declare a vested interest. From September, anomalistic psychology will be offered [...]
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‘Evolution Keeps Us Superstitious. Now That’s Lucky‘ – Times, Sept 5th, 2006: ..Even the most rational people behave in irrational ways and supernatural beliefs are part of the same continuum, Professor Hood told the British Association Festival of Science in Norwich yesterday. To demonstrate his theory he asked members of the audience if they were [...]
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Today, Dr Chris French, professor at Goldsmith’s Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at the University of London announced that: “The Guardian online’s science pages will, from this week onwards, be featuring regular monthly columns by Simon Singh, PZ Myers of Pharyngula blog, Andy Miah and me. Further details at The Guardian’s page at ‘And Now For [...]
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There’s probably still people who attended the education panel at Dragon*Con who wonder why on earth I talked about ‘demonization of teachers and education’. It’s still something I maintain is an additional challenge to improving education and retaining teachers. Not everyone is a member of an appreciated staff nor admired by students of an elite [...]
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Shirley Ghostman doesn’t really believe himself a psychic. Really Shirley is just an over-the-top character of a spoof comedy show. Here Skeptic Christopher French goes up against Shirley and shows how hard it can be to tell a legitimate looney from a joke.
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Just got a big bunch from Amazon.com today! I’ll have to zip some reviews out… a few I’ll keep on reserve so when I’m not able to blog I can pop up reviews so I don’t miss days whilst travelling. But my faves I’ll get out as fast as I can. The one I was [...]
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Just a short announcement regarding the banner at the top of my blog – there you can find within easy clicking reach: Essay Links (aka ‘Resources and Articles’) – This is where I house all my lengthier blog posts, usually the ones that are submitted to various blog carnivals and feature references and useful links [...]
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PodBlack Cat
Women and Superstitions – Part Three
by podblack on June 10, 2008
Following on from Women and Superstitions Part One and Women and Superstitions Part Two. Again, despite my own skepticism, I’d like to reiterate something – belief in weird things like charms, psychics, or conspiracies does not lead to justifiably claiming that someone must be stupid, insane, foolish or even irreversibly gullible. There’s plenty of people, [...]
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