Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Token Skeptic #18 – On The Placebo Protest (Science Communication Part Three) This particular episode is another conversation with Science Communicator and the ‘Science By Email’ editor, Michael McRae, about the #boobquake day, held on the 26th April. You can hear him on previous episodes, #9 and #10, also about science communication and skepticism. I [...]
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Not that surprised. From Salon.com: Why I won’t be joining the “Boobquake” – A racy feminist protest against extremist Muslim misogyny quickly devolves into “Girls Gone Wild”. I appreciate McCreight’s intentions behind this; she meant it as a feminist response to a ridiculous statement. Unfortunately, it seems to be turning into something else, with many [...]
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Just a update, from a CNN news article: Blogger: Show cleavage to test cleric’s quake theory ..She said no woman should feel pressured to participate. “It’s not supposed to be serious activism that is going to revolutionize women’s rights, but just a bit of fun juvenile humor,” she wrote. “I’m a firm believer that when [...]
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Don’t forget to check out the latest Token Skeptic Episode: On How We Only Like You Because You’re Good In Blog – Blogging Skeptically. Submission for ‘We Only Like You Because You’re Good in Blog’ Day! …what we will NOT tolerate are veiled threats or references to violence or sex acts such as those above. [...]
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Today a few of my ‘worlds’ collided when a young woman in one of my classes ask me ‘how come I found your blog and how does it get so much traffic?’ It was on the tip of my tongue to say “start a blog, enter in for the ‘We Only Like You Because You’re [...]
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Just a quick alert — some of my writing features at SheThought! You can find ‘Critical Thinking Heroine Loretta Marron’ and article called “A Girl Called Ellie — Carl Sagan’s Ellie Arroway” mentions Ellie from Tomorrow When the War Began — which has been filmed and soon to appear at the movies! Don’t forget — [...]
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Thanks to ‘bastardsheep’ for this one: TAM (The Amazing Meeting) is coming to Australia this year, the last weekend in November. The first official lineup lineup of speakers has just been officially announced: James Randi, DJ Grothe, SGU, Brian Dunning, George Hrab, Dr Eugenie Scott, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and MC Dr Paul Willis. #TAMOz appears [...]
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A news story that was printed in the New Humanist back in May/June 2008 has been revived in The Times today. It’s not exactly a ‘catching up’, but I’d say it’s a revisit to how rationalists in India continue to challenge superstitious and claims by gurus. Sanal Edamaruku wrote about Death on air — the [...]
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