RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE

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The 95th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle: The 9/11 Edition

Post author By Orac
Post date September 12, 2008

The 95th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle has been posted by Bob Carroll over at Skeptimedia:

Seven years ago, The Very Lost Prophecies of Michel Nostradamus were found by Quantum Beam Radium and Harvard Veritas Schwartz in a Peruvian cave. Dr. Schwartz’s validated spirit guide directed the pair to the cave by interpreting entangled stains found by Radium on a South Park urinal. We now know, after doing a thorough meta-analysis and finding odds against chance of a trillion to one, that the Great One predicted it all.

With that begins one of the longest, cleverest, and most varied we’ve seen, even after 94 previous editions, and that’s quite an accomplishment. Don’t miss it!

Next up to host the Skeptics’ Circle two weeks hence on September 25 will be Endcycle. Get your skeptical brains working and provide the raw material for another great Circle!

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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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