Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
I won’t write on this again, but essentially, yesterday I was so unwell that even I didn’t want to be around myself – so, the following items have done a pretty good job of cheering me up! Hello to the world of the living, this revolting zombie-death-like cold can’t last for much longer, I hope! [...]
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This is with very big thanks to Espilon Clue, who features the majority of the speech. There are some arguments he makes at the end, and Dr Phil Plait responds in the comments – I hope Dr Plait includes in the promised ‘blog-follow-up’ he has planned, the post by Tribal Scientist. You can see his [...]
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Just as I’ve been enjoying reading the very skeptically-minded breakdown (and an excellent one at that) of ‘Is that a fallacy in your pocket or can you cite some sources? A Response to “Feminism at TAM”‘ — here’s some more skepticism! From the official site: “In October 2008 Tim worked with Animator Martin White to [...]
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Thanks to IDoubtIt — Live at The Amazing Meeting (TAM8) 8 in Las Vegas, Richard Saunders, Bruce Hood, Brian Dunning and Rick don the mustaches for a rousing rendition of the Star Trek theme.
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From Dr Pamela Gay, via a Facebook comment: “Dawkins expressed concern that if kids read fantasy it would encourage false belief and advocated that we need sci fiction, pitched a book he is writing over and over, and argued kids probably shouldn’t read fantasy. It was surreal. Search on tam8 on twitter to see others [...]
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Last night I decided to have no. more. promoting. of. other. people’s. projects. and. things – until I get the rest of my work done! I have too many of my own projects to finish! So – *ahem* – here’s some… promoting of things. Sorry. But they are all great causes and ideas, by some [...]
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