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Calling all Air America fans, calling all Air America fans!

Crank alert! Age of Autism has announced that David Kirby and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will be on the David Bender Show at 1:15 PM today. It would be nice if, to counter the antivaccine activists, reality-based listeners would call in, although I am very pessimistic that Bender would give them a fair shake, given […]

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Off to learn some more surgical oncology…

As this posts I should be on an airplane winging its way to much warmer climes than where I reside in order to attend the Society of Surgical Oncology 62nd Annual Cancer Symposium. There, in Phoenix, I will eagerly absorb all the latest and greatest knowledge in the realm of cancer surgery, commune with friends […]

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Skeptics’ Circle #106 descends upon a waiting world

It’s a little late, but better late than never! Skeptics Circle #106 finally landed last night over at Disillusioned Words. Jeff Stingerstein lays it all out in a “just the facts, m’am” manner that demonstrates that, for all the fantastically creative and wild formats that prior hosts have used to present the last fortnight’s skepticism, […]

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Fast approaching: The 106th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle

It’s almost here. In fact, it’ll be here in a mere three days, and I’ve been remiss. But it’s still not too late to submit your best skeptical work to Jeff, the next host of the Skeptics’ Circle, to be held on Thursday at Disillusioned Words. So please, don’t let the fact that I was […]

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The 105th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle–with added Shakespeare!

Be sure to check it out at It’s the Thought That Counts.