Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Later today, the Token Skeptic podcast will be featuring the audio from Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s talk at Christ Church Grammar School. She is the Somali-born former politician once named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Today in the West Australian, there was a brief report about her visit [...]
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So — the challenge over my holidays is to start introducing students to religion! And atheism! This is really going to be a lot of fun! The program involves ‘Ideas of God’ and ‘Religious and Mystical Experience’. While I can find a variety of useful general texts (the likes of AC Grayling, Stephen J Gould, [...]
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Firstly, hello to a certain co-worker who said she’s checked out my site! You might even like to suggest something I could investigate for you. Simply pop in a comment at the end of this post. And hello to your husband as well. Sylvia Browne. What to say? After following her efforts to silence Robert [...]
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Thanks to another Brian, Brian Dunning, for this one. “Yes, I know you walked into this with an open mind…”
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Please promote and support this article – “No, I Don’t Believe In God” by Alom Shaha. I consider it a great honor that I had Alom Shaha speak to me as a science communicator, for an early podcast interview I did: episode #22 of the Skeptic Zone with Alom Shaha. What I knew of him [...]
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Skepticism and Women’s Intuition – and much more! Token Skeptic Podcast – episodes 14 and 15, now out! Scott Sigler features in “Episode Fourteen – On Science Fiction And Skepticism” – conducted on Monday during the final day of SwanCon, the Perth Science Fiction convention. Dr Scott Lilienfeld features in “Episode Fifteen – On Women’s [...]
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Hello to the fellow UWA students who heard my lecture on Thursday! Here are a few links to some things I mentioned during my talk and that we discussed when it finished. Firstly – activism and skepticism and how some people were wondering ‘what is being done out there?’ Check out the following: What Do [...]
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From Slate Magazine by Emily Yoffe – quite a fun read! At this point I should add that The Secret is not only drivel—it’s pernicious drivel. The obvious question that arises from its claim that it’s easy to get what you want, is: Why do so many people get what they don’t want? As Byrne [...]
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