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Paranormal Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking

Do I make you horny, baby? Do I? Even though I don’t have a body?

File this under the “You Learn Something New Every Day” category. Apparently, ghosts can be horny little buggers, and a “ghostbuster” named Syed Abdullah Alattas, founder and chief investigator of Seekers Malaysia, has been investigating: GHOSTS have sex. This is the claim of Syed Abdullah Alattas, founder and chief investigator of Seekers Malaysia. “We are […]

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Paranormal Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking

The unsinkable rubber duck

Skeptico explains why confirmation bias and the Forer effect make astrology seem like it might work when it’s really a load of crap. As usual, he makes it plain why astrology is bunk, reiterating his Astrology Challenge.

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Complementary and alternative medicine Intelligent design/creationism Medicine Paranormal Pareidolia Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

The 43rd Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle: Sad puppy edition

I never knew that puppies liked logic and critical thinking. I always thought that they liked running, playing, eating, sleeping, and being petted. But, according to Janet Stemwedel, there is at least one puppy who is a budding skeptic, and bad reasoning and gullibility make him sad. She explains in the introduction to the 43rd […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Friday Woo Paranormal Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking

Your Friday Dose of Woo: Breathe, breathe in the woo

As regular readers may have noticed, I was on vacation the last two Fridays in a row. To keep Your Friday Dose of Woo (YFDoW) going, I decided to resurrect a couple of posts from the old blog that would have made good installments of YFDoW installments, had YFDoW existed at the time when they […]

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Humor Paranormal Skepticism/critical thinking

So that’s why she’s advertising in the personals

From an actual personal ad: Gorgeous blonde model, tired of being patronized. Looking for sincere, understanding man. Must be willing to listen to stories of alien abduction. (Source: The 365 Stupidest Things Ever Said Calendar 2004) Would anyone out there answer this ad?