RESPECTFUL INSOLENCE

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The 55th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle: The Number of the Skeptic (or, EoR has your number)

Post author By Orac
Post date March 1, 2007

The 55th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle has been posted at The Second Sight, and EoR has

bowed to the higher energies of the universe in organising this edition based on the numerological vibrations of the submitters. Numerology is, of course, a science that has been proven by thousands of years of traditional use, dating back to at least Babylonian times. And they probably got it directly from the Atlanteans. Who got it from the interdimensional Martians.

Glad to hear it.

I think. (It sounds as though EoR is going to see the new Jim Carrey movie.)

Of course, as always, EoR has done a bang-up job of rounding up the best skeptical blogging of the last fortnight. Go check it out

Next up is Scientia Natura. Be sure to start getting more great material ready to submit to Shalini.

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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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