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High School Possession And The Skeptical Teacher’s Quandary

by podblack on January 28, 2009

Today a news item popped up, which didn’t really surprise me. I’d heard of accounts of similar sorts of behaviour as ‘warnings’ to me, when I tried talking about how interesting and educational it would be to talk about the paranormal and pseudoscientific topics in the high school classroom. What should a teacher do in [...]

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Little Kitten – Coathangers, Mind-Reading and Mini-Monkey!

by podblack on March 6, 2008

Remember the saga of the PEAR cables and Randi calling them out on their quality claims? Well, claims are one thing but… …cold hard proof is another, and it looks like a group of 12 self-professed “audiophiles” recently couldn’t tell the difference between Monster 1000 speaker cables and plain old coat hangers. Yeah, coat hangers. [...]

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