Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Great article by Ben Radford now out: Despite a long tradition of free, compulsory public education (and more college graduates than ever), as a whole we don’t seem to be getting much smarter. Many of us still buy the newest fad items and get suckered into the latest conspiracy theory. We still fall for the [...]
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So, whilst all the rah-rah rubbish about the ‘women to men’ ratio of The Amazing Meeting turned out to be a complete and utter non-issue (hey, just like I’ve said all along! What a surprise!!) – one of the female presenters did have something to say about the show. In particular, what she noticed about [...]
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Ah, I adore E, my regular commentator under many guises. And deliverer of LolCat goodness! Anyway, after E sent me an article today on superstitious beliefs amongst politicians, I countered with the blog entry I wrote a while back on the issue – Political Punditry On McCain’s Magical Thinking: The notion of ‘magical thinking‘ has [...]
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What are you doing reading this entry? Seriously, click on over! The event you’ve all been waiting for has happened! Robert ‘Stop Sylvia Browne’ Lancaster has gone to Sylvia’s show when visiting Las Vegas! Here is the big picture: 1. We saw the show. 2. I spoke with Browne. 3. I was escorted off the [...]
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Who Altered British TV? ‘Who’ Indeed: “He has basically changed the face of television in the U.K.,” said John Barrowman, who plays Captain Jack in both “Doctor Who” and a spinoff series, “Torchwood,” which is aimed at adults. “He has taken subject matter that nobody else will touch, and he has put in characters that [...]
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Andrew Mayne Brings It!
by podblack on March 4, 2008
Yes! It’s the ‘ask and thou receive’ attitude from comments in my blog post that has resulted in the very gentlemanly Andrew Mayne himself not only blogging openly the article that inspired my ‘Forums for Skepticism’ article that was printed last year in the Australian Skeptic Journal – he also has it available as a [...]
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