Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
My Science is Hotter than Dr. Isis’s Naughty Monkeys Because… Yeah, monkeys can be bad. But not as bad-ass as my tango shoes. You’re saying you do science in those shoes? Science doesn’t require one to dress up pretty to get the job done. I could do a variety of things in these shoes, but [...]
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Welcome to my 1000th blog entry! You wonder why ‘part four’? Educate yourself, the same way I’ve been doing for the past year as a part of my Masters degree in Education, looking at what very well may be the biggest sample of Australians on paranormal, pseduoscientific AND conspiracy theory beliefs yet! Part One; Part [...]
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Following on from Women and Superstitions — Part One. I’d like to first return briefly to Dr Michael Shermer’s book ‘Why People Believe in Weird Things‘. You may have even seen the TED talk of the same title — here’s part one of two: From the book: For a variety of reasons related to the [...]
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It’s been a little while since I’ve gone in depth on this topic, so it’s probably a good opportunity for a recap! Especially after just having read Tall Tales About The Mind And Brain: Separating Fact From Fiction, edited by Sergio Della Sala. I’m pulling together the literature review for my dissertation on beliefs of [...]
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Women and Superstitions – Part Three
by podblack on June 10, 2008
Following on from Women and Superstitions Part One and Women and Superstitions Part Two. Again, despite my own skepticism, I’d like to reiterate something – belief in weird things like charms, psychics, or conspiracies does not lead to justifiably claiming that someone must be stupid, insane, foolish or even irreversibly gullible. There’s plenty of people, [...]
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