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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Well, there’s another actor who disappoints me when they’re not getting it from a script – how’s this for insulting? French actor Marion Cotillard says America fabricated the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Uh huh. …”I think we’re lied to about a number of things,” Cotillard said, singling out 9/11 as an example of the US making [...]
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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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