Stop Sylvia Browne

Help Requested LA Skeptics

by podblack on September 28, 2008

Passed onto me – can you help? Need help with RSL (Robert ‘Stop Sylvia’ Lancaster). We are quickly running out of time. The hospital cannot hold him much longer, and he is not yet ready for the rehab facility. I need to get him ready but I cannot do it alone. He needs to be [...]

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Got Flickr? Here’s a few shots from before Dragon*Con and after. Will be putting up a few more tonight, as I cool my heels before heading back home, en route San Fran (with Saunders, as his in-laws are in that city — I might get to go to the zoo too!). Then it’ll be Auckland, [...]

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Here’s to Robert Lancaster’s recovery – hope he’ll be well enough soon to enjoy the present sent from Australia! You can also donate to his fund for recovery here. In the meantime, click on the picture to enjoy the show, from YTMND.com – how SB gets ‘psychic’… http://howtolooklikeapsychic.ytmnd.com/ “YTMND, an acronym for “You’re The Man [...]

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Before there was Stop Sylvia Browne (who has apparently been stopped from performing at the Excalibur in Las Vegas!) – there was Stop Kaz – but it hasn’t stopped yet… …a woman going by the name of “Dr. Kaz deMille-Jacobsen” has been speaking at various church and community functions in Southern California.She tells an “inspiring” [...]

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Little Kitten – Cetic Skepticism

by podblack on July 2, 2008

Oh, remember the Stop Sylvia Browne news item?

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This article was originally printed in The Australian Skeptic journal, Spring 2007 in an unabridged format, entitled “Forums for Skepticism: Reflections upon Andrew Mayne’s “Think Skeptically, Act Locally: 50 Things You Can do To Encourage Critical Thinking”. 6) Produce a brochure The New Zealand Skeptics group, on their website have produced information flyers and brochures, [...]

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Skepticism And Scholarship – Dr Mark Henn

by podblack on February 22, 2008

Back into my series of interviews for this week! My next blog interview is with a man who is at the coalface of educating and researching beliefs in weird things. Dr Mark Henn is from the University of New Hampshire’s Psychology Department, which contains a grad program that values teaching enough to actually spend time [...]

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