Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
If you’re allowing the internet to get you down – e.g accusations of concern-trolling, site-upgrades, webinar seminar faily-faily, too many emails to reply to, emails gone missing, emails not arriving, stupid people and photographs they swiped for their site, stupid forum boards and their stupid people and more and more stupid and stupid and stupid… [...]
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From BBC News – I just have to show you! When the UK government said it was thinking of ending its long-standing ban on astronauts, surely it wasn’t thinking of putting teddies in space? But pictures have been released of two British toy bears in spacesuits with the curve of the Earth clearly visible behind [...]
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When I’m not doing someone else’s qualitative research for their PhD (180 interviews done, 20 more to go over the next two days!), I’m usually working on my own dissertation (what is probably the largest paranormal, pseudoscientific and conspiracy-theory belief survey done yet in Australia); trying to sort out time to contribute to the Skeptic [...]
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From Reuters, Washington: Many doctors and therapists use unproven approaches such as drugs, art or play therapy on children suffering trauma when old-fashioned talk therapy has been shown to work, a report released on Tuesday said. A review of a dozen different studies showed no evidence that alternative therapies helped children traumatized by violence or [...]
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New articles out – that mention a range of states! ‘Just think: it’s important’ in the Sydney Morning Herald: …A former physics teacher, Mr. Ellerton introduced the philosophy and critical thinking program to Calamvale after joining a network of Queensland teachers which promotes and spreads the teaching of philosophy in high schools throughout the state. [...]
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Go check it out for yourself! The Skeptic.com site now features the details of all the back-issues of the Skeptic which contain the Junior Skeptic insert! I noticed that you can click through each one and find out exactly which one has particular features and information – and seriously, these are great intro topics for [...]
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