RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE

"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, and pseudoscience (and anything else that interests him).

On its way: The 85th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle

Post author By Orac
Post date April 19, 2008

Once more, time has flown by. Worse, it’s flown by fast enough that Ben Stein’s bit of argumentum ad Nazium propaganda has finally slimed its way into theaters. Now, more than ever, we need a hefty dose of real skepticism (as opposed to the pseudoskepticism and denialism that masquerade as science and skepticism–like Expelled!). That’s why it’s good to see the 85th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle coming up on Thursday, April 24 at Andrea’s Buzzing About:, But Andrea can’t do it by herself. She needs the help of skeptical bloggers to give her the raw material that she can forge into a paean to critical thinking. Then join her back next Thursday to see what she’s done with it.

And, of course, if you want to host one of these Circles yourself, then peruse the guidelines and schedule as well as the guidelines for hosts and then drop me a line.

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Orac is the nom de blog of a humble surgeon/scientist who has an ego just big enough to delude himself that someone, somewhere might actually give a rodent's posterior about his copious verbal meanderings, but just barely small enough to admit to himself that few probably will. That surgeon is otherwise known as David Gorski.

That this particular surgeon has chosen his nom de blog based on a rather cranky and arrogant computer shaped like a clear box of blinking lights that he originally encountered when he became a fan of a 35 year old British SF television show whose special effects were renowned for their BBC/Doctor Who-style low budget look, but whose stories nonetheless resulted in some of the best, most innovative science fiction ever televised, should tell you nearly all that you need to know about Orac. (That, and the length of the preceding sentence.)

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