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Your Friday Dose of Woo will be on hiatus for a while

It’s been a week now since my wife and I learned that our beloved dog, whom we’ve had for eight years, had terminal cancer. At the time I was so sad and down that I just couldn’t even imagine getting myself into the appropriately light-hearted frame of mind that I try to maintain. In the […]

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The 90th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle: Coming at you from Down Under

Better late than never (for me to announce it, I mean), the 90th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle has descended upon the blogosphere from Down Under, this time brought to you by prominent Australian skeptic and battler against woo, a guy who’s even harsher on antivaccinationists than I am, Peter Bowditch. Go forth and enjoy! […]

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Up from Down Under: The Skeptics’ Circle is on its way

Lest I forget my obligations here, I have to post a reminder that the 90th Edition of the Skeptics’ Circle is fast approaching and will be here on Thursday, July 3. In fact, because it’s being hosted by prominent Australian skeptic Peter Bowditch at the Millenium Project, it may well be earlier than that given […]

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The 89th Meeting of the Skeptics Circle: The “I’d rather be in Vegas” edition

Better late than never, they always say. Michael Meadon may have been a few hours later than the usual edition of the Skeptics’ Circle, but when he finally delivered the 89th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle it was well worth the wait. He even showed me a promising new blogger: Redonkulous Redundancy is a new […]

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Followup on Skeptics’ Circle announcement

On Friday, I made an announcement about the Skeptics’ Circle scheduled for July 31 in the light of having learned some very bad news, namely that the planned host, Jeff of Blue Collar Scientist, had recently been diagnosed with liver cancer. I wanted to verify that Jeff wasn’t going to host (as I assumed he […]