Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Of course, the two guests have met before — check out my series on The One, psychic TV Show and how well a certain Éclair performed back then… You can read a BBC analysis with a larger photo, on this site — BBC Gloucestershire’s Chris Sandys reports: Has the photo been faked? “No. The images [...]
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Dear all, Over the past few days there has been two five to six hour round trips to south of the state; some getting over a cold; one teacher workshop on critical thinking (where I presented on skepticism for the fourth time); a rather worrying development in the health of a co-worker; one house-guest (who [...]
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First — go to: www.skepticzone.tv, where you’ll find this iTunes link or even this mp3 download here (if you prefer not to use iTunes)… …and let us know what you think of the new, ‘improved’ Richard Saunders and Stefan Sojka… Oh, and listen to the interview with Dr Krissy Wilson, who you have already read about [...]
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Surrounded by paperwork, my cat decides to treat my Oscar winning picks with the respect they deserve. Rip, shred! Well, perhaps she thinks my picks are garbage — or maybe she’s also maintaining the rage about Thunderfoot, who was suspended for two weeks after pointing out how the rating system on YouTube has been manipulated [...]
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No, I’m not talking about Dakota Fanning playing Jane in another Twilight movie, ‘New Moon’ (although I was reminded by Naontiotami that she’s appearing in psychic-sci fi film called Push, which I noticed last year)… It’s actually Bubble Wrap Day! I remember when I was first introduced to the idea of ‘tension sheets’, thanks to [...]
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From The Guardian – Charlie Brooker: Funniest Moment Of The Year was the sight of Derek Ogilvie, Channel 5′s truly horrid “Baby Mind Reader”, bursting into self-pitying tears during The Million Dollar Psychic, when his powers were tested by scientists and found to be non-existent. This was quickly followed by the Most Depressing Moment Of [...]
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From I09: Obviously, the fake-psychic-turned-investigator from The Mentalist chucked a pretty lucrative job when he went straight. Today a San Francisco “psychic” named Lisa Marie Miller (pictured) was sentenced to two months in jail for sucking over $100 thousand out of a lovelorn woman. Miller convinced the woman she had a “curse” that could only [...]
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Some nice discussions on Gizmondo and even Jezebel: As far as we can tell, this watch doesn’t actually stab your wrist at all, which is a shame, because anything that advertises itself as an acupuncture bracelet had better be breaking some skin. Which it doesn’t, but there’s a healthy amount of BS being tossed your [...]
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