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Little Kitten – Tim Minchin’s ‘If You Open Your Mind Too Much…’

by podblack on July 17, 2010

Just as I’ve been enjoying reading the very skeptically-minded breakdown (and an excellent one at that) of ‘Is that a fallacy in your pocket or can you cite some sources? A Response to “Feminism at TAM”‘ – here’s some more skepticism!

From the official site: “In October 2008 Tim worked with Animator Martin [...]

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Blog News And The Power of Rational Outreach (And The Place Of Ridicule)

by podblack on July 15, 2010

Just a quick announcement that I’m going to be:
1) Upgrading the blog-site and
2) Working on studies for the rest of the week, so expect only a few updates. School starts for me next week too!
Which makes it a little odd that I then go – Vote For Me for the Big Blog Theory!
After all, this [...]

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Podblack Finds – Women And Skepticism: Breakdown Of The Data

by podblack on July 8, 2010

From Decficio Mens: Women in Skepticism: Breakdown of the data.
(Do note, they write – ‘I know that this is NOT a scientific study, nor a statistically sound sample, nor anything like that. Still, I believe that the data in response to the question asked can be quite illuminating.‘)
This is a small [...]

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The Quick And Dirty World Of Women’s Mags – Dr Petra Boynton And Christine Ottery

by podblack on June 21, 2010

The quick and dirty world of women’s magazines from Christine Ottery from Women’s Mag! A great site, lots of discussion and resources there.
I met Petra Boynton to discuss women’s magazines, and in particular sex surveys, dodgy experts, and the mixed and confusing messages that women’s mags send out about women’s sexuality.
To put pressure on editors [...]

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Retrospectacle – This Is All You Got In This Size?

by podblack on May 21, 2010

What is Retrospectacle? This series of posts are a kind of Thomas Dolby-inspired ‘retrospectacle’ of earlier entries from my site, which will fill in during the time that I am busy working and cannot blog on a regular basis as usual.
I’ll be back writing later next week – feel free to give feedback as [...]

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Female Representation At Paranormal Research Conferences

by podblack on May 19, 2010

A response to “female representation. Where the hell is it?” by The Rather Friendly Skeptic.
“…why is it only a few women are ever seen speaking at conferences and why do we never see a predominantly female line up at such conferences?”

They linked to my site! As Desiree Schell mentioned in the comments of that [...]

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