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The 107th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle: OMG! A podcast!

Well, here’s a new way of hosting a Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle. What we have this time is the combination of a minimalist presentation of the relevant links with a maximalist bit of podcast blather from Theo Clark of The Skeptics’ Field Guide. Go check it out! Next up is PodBlack Cat on March […]

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Cancer Medicine Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Animal rights activists: Even death doesn’t sway them

I have two brief observations to make before I launch into my latest bit of insolence. First off, it figures that, whenever I go away to a meeting, there’s simply an embarrassment of blogging riches. People have been sending me stuff to which, even if I were at home and having a slow week, I […]

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Announcements Skepticism/critical thinking

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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Complementary and alternative medicine Friday Woo Medicine Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Your Friday Dose of Woo: A bio-photon here, a bio-photon there…whatever a bio-photon is

Let’s try this again. Two days ago, I tried to get away from blogging about antivaccinationists. I even succeeded for one day. Unfortunately, that was all, because J.B. Handley and his crew of antivaccine loons cooked up a really big, really deceptive, and really desperate gambit that just couldn’t go unremarked upon. Thus was I […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Humor Medicine Paranormal Politics Religion Skepticism/critical thinking

I get e-mail, too

I realize that PZ seems to have all the fun when it comes to entertaining e-mails from cranks, but that doesn’t mean I don’t sometimes get my share of such amusement. For example, yesterday, waiting for me in the morning in my e-mail in box was this delightful gem: From: [email protected] Subject: the dark force […]