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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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Pareidolia Religion Skepticism/critical thinking

More Virgin Mary pareidolia

This time, the Virgin Mary is on a tree: LOCKPORT — A Harvey Street woman claimed on Wednesday that she heard the voice of the Virgin Mary and has seen visions of the Mother of God in the trimmed branches of a maple tree in front of her house. Antonia “Toni” Filipertis, 84, a devout […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Friday Woo Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

Your Friday Dose of Woo: “Touchless” chiropractic

While I am on vacation, I’m reprinting a number of “Classic Insolence” posts to keep the blog active while I’m gone. (It also has the salutory effect of allowing me to move some of my favorite posts from the old blog over to the new blog, and I’m guessing that quite a few of my […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Science Skepticism/critical thinking

The 42nd Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle: Recovering from an attack of the undead down under

Rapidly dwindling vacation or no vacation, I have to plug the Skeptic’s Circle. Some of you may have wondered where the host of this week’s Skeptic’s Circle has been. After all, a few of you commented that his blog hadn’t been updated in three months, even with a notice for the Skeptics’ Circle. Fear not! […]

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Evolution Intelligent design/creationism Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking

The Wedgie Document and the creationist challenge

While I am on vacation, I’m reprinting a number of “Classic Insolence” posts to keep the blog active while I’m gone. (It also has the salutory effect of allowing me to move some of my favorite posts from the old blog over to the new blog, and I’m guessing that quite a few of my […]