Via Recursivity and Pharyngula, I’ve learned that, after being an embarrassment to Princeton University for nearly three decades, the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory is closing due to lack of funding. I’m only amazed that it held on so long. Let’s just hope that Deepak Chopra doesn’t decide to bail it out. From my […]
Category: Skepticism/critical thinking
It’s almost here. In fact, it’s closer than you would think, because of the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S. Yes, the Skeptics’ Circle is due to land at this session’s host (decorabilia) one day early, on Wednesday, November 22. So this time around the deadline will be Tuesday, November 21. decorabilia provides instructions on […]
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Given my love of science and advocacy of evidence-based medicine, people may have come to the erroneous conclusion that I hate all woo. Nothing could be further from the truth. I just want medical woo to be subject to the same scientific testing as conventional medicine, because I believe that there should not even be […]
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It’s Frank Zappa, of course, with what is arguably the best (or at least one of the best) songs celebrating skepticism ever written (and it has a killer guitar solo in the middle, too!): I used to love that song when I was a teenager. (I still do.) I wonder if it affected me…
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Holy Reiki, Batman! This month’s Skeptics Circle, hosted by Polite Company, has landed, and it’s a doozy. In fact, it’s a Circle of Heroes: Observe the Skeptic: often battle-hardened by years of living in a world gone mad with magical thinking and spurious logic; frequently alone in the fight against codified irrationality; forced to search […]
