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Shades of Lysistrata!

One of the things that I remember most about my A.P. English course in high school is the time that we all read Aristophane’s Lysistrata. This play, as you may or may not remember, is a comedy taking place during the Peloponnesian War. The plot, boiled down to its essence, entails a plan by which […]

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Pareidolia Religion Skepticism/critical thinking

Sunday pareidolia: The best Jesus pareidolia yet, and more!

I realize that PZ and Skeptico have already posted this, but it’s just too hilarious for me, as a bit of a connoisseur of pareidolia, to pass up, regardless of who might have posted about it before. We’ve seen Jesus in many strange places, even on toast, but I bet you’ve never seen Him appear […]

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Computers and social media Science fiction/fantasy

Orac: I want one of these!

Oooh, I have to get me one of these! Of course, the specs would have to be more up to snuff with what one can purchase these days. Even so, I wonder if anyone could put one together with a Mac.

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Vaccines and relative risks

Holy crap. I suspected that my two posts about Dawn Winkler, the antivaccination activist running for Governor of Colorado on the Libertarian ticket, might generate some comments and attract some of Dawn’s fellow antivaxers to the comments. Little did I suspect just how many, or how hysterical they would become. Because yesterday was a travel […]

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

Your Friday Dose of Woo: If our intestines were lungs we could drink our oxygen!

With all the vaccination “skeptics” who’ve crawled out of the woodwork over the last couple of days in response to my two posts about Dawn Winkler, the Libertarian candidate for the Governor of Colorado who happens to be a rabid antivaccination activist, not to mention totally clueless and nasty about autistic children (and who even […]