Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
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Announcement! I’m now a columnist with Skeptical Inquirer website! The CSI one! With yet another cat-icon by the talented Michael McRae, getting all Cheshire-like on the top. Rworr…
A little while back I was approached about contributing something regularly to the Skeptical Inquirer site and so, here it is! It’s been very difficult keeping [...]
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Head on over to Token Skeptic and subscribe on iTunes! Token Skeptic Episode Eleven is now out!
Why is Professor Hood featuring on this episode of the Token Skeptic? Because if you follow his blog at www.brucemhood.wordpress.com, you’ll see how he is very much involved with some rather ‘unbelievable’ developments in the UK.
Firstly, his efforts [...]
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Okay, this is not the kind of thing I usually write about. I’d like to apologise to those who find this a little squeamish, off-topic, weird, so-old-news (or, like myself, find this just kind of daft). But I have an opinion, and that’s what this blog sometimes foregrounds.
I don’t care whether you shave your legs. [...]
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Just on the heels of the most recent Token Skeptic podcast (where my opening question was : The media’s adoption of the word ’skeptic’ in conjunction with ‘climate change skeptics’ seems to be widespread and perhaps the public perception of the word will always link the two together. Is it possible this could change?)
Adam Corner [...]
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FANTASTIC interview, go check it out over at the Point of Inquiry Podcast!
In this conversation with host Karen Stollznow, Rowland explains the history and meaning of cold reading, and how and why it works. He demonstrates how cold reading is a “Win-Win Game” and psychics are “right” even when they’re wrong. He claims that he [...]
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