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Your Friday Dose of Woo: Getting it on for peace

Given my love of science and advocacy of evidence-based medicine, people may have come to the erroneous conclusion that I hate all woo. Nothing could be further from the truth. I just want medical woo to be subject to the same scientific testing as conventional medicine, because I believe that there should not even be […]

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Music Skepticism/critical thinking

Sunday morning skepticism in music

It’s Frank Zappa, of course, with what is arguably the best (or at least one of the best) songs celebrating skepticism ever written (and it has a killer guitar solo in the middle, too!): I used to love that song when I was a teenager. (I still do.) I wonder if it affected me…

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The 47th Meeting of the Skeptics Circle: Circle of Heroes!

Holy Reiki, Batman! This month’s Skeptics Circle, hosted by Polite Company, has landed, and it’s a doozy. In fact, it’s a Circle of Heroes: Observe the Skeptic: often battle-hardened by years of living in a world gone mad with magical thinking and spurious logic; frequently alone in the fight against codified irrationality; forced to search […]

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Chris Mooney on Point of Inquiry

Fellow ScienceBlogger and author of The Republican War on Science Chris Mooney was interviewed for one of my favorite podcasts, Point of Inquiry, the official podcast for The Center for Inquiry, this week. It’s well worth checking out. I don’t agree with everything in Mooney’s book (which I finally finished reading about a month ago), […]

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Fast approaching: The Skeptics’ Circle

Time flies. In fact, it flies so fast that it seems only yesterday that Kev put together a great Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle, but in fact it’s been over a week and the time for a new host to take on the responsibility is fast approaching. This time around, it’s Thursday’s turn to host […]