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The Ghost In The Ouija Board – Facilitated Communication And Rom Houben

by podblack on February 21, 2010

NPR — Story Of Book-Writing Coma Patient Debunked A few months ago, we reported on a man in Belgium named Rom Houben. He was said to be writing a book more than 20 years after doctors concluded that a car crash had left him in a vegetative state. He gained international fame for supposedly revealing [...]

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Personally, In This Heat, I’m Just Denying The Existence Of Snow

by podblack on December 17, 2009

First, just a quick reminder to everyone out there regarding Tim Minchin’s White Wine in the Sun and how it’s now going to help an autism charity. Regarding skeptics and climate change, I am immediately reminded of the Australian Skeptics National conference in Adelaide, 2008, which featured a ‘climate debate’ between professors Ian Plimer and [...]

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Vaccinate Via TAM7 – News From Bad Astronomer

by podblack on June 25, 2009

Via the BA and the SWIFT article: As you may know, the JREF is sponsoring a vaccination drive in Las Vegas to coincide with The Amaz!ng Meeting 7, to be held from July 9-12. This drive was the brainchild of pediatrician and skeptic Joe Albietz, who has worked very hard to get this to happen. [...]

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Autism Spectrum And DORE Speculations

by podblack on May 9, 2008

So, I’m still waiting on a reply from DORE Australia, after reading a great blogger on the topic of DORE. You see, I have an unanswered question. Something I emailed to them last month and got a cheery reply to, even! Simple enough question, I thought. “Why would the Australian website for DORE claim that [...]

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World Of Wonder Part II – With English Subtitles

by podblack on March 6, 2008

Thanks again to ‘TomSFox‘ who does the English subtitling!

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World Of Wonder – Now With English Subtitles

by podblack on March 3, 2008

Bit of a ‘YouTube’ and links day today, due to unpacking after my holiday… it was brilliant, thanks for asking! Here is the German ‘World of Wonder’ (‘James Randi on Welt der Wunder’) that I featured earlier. The very kind ‘TomSFox‘ has put in English subtitles (industriously correcting them too) and is working on the [...]

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