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Saturday Shillery: Oklahoma!
Posted by ERV on December 8, 2012 I love Oklahoma– Great school, great cost of living, genuinely nice folks, and believe it or not, a fantastic atheist/skeptic scene. You all know about FreeOK (one and my talk isnt up yet from two… SEEEETH!), organized by Atheist Community of Tulsa and the OKC Atheists. Those groups are amazing, outside of the conference. Ive…
“Nature” awards quack hunters with John Maddox prizes
Posted by ERV on November 21, 2012 Ask anyone who has stood up to quacks/charlatans/nutbars– Crazy people be CRAZY. Someone tries to educate the public, move their field, shine a candle in a demon haunted world, stand up for what they think is right, and they are rewarded with insane emails (check!), often including threats of physical violence (check!), badgering emails to…
How to Protest a ‘Psychic’
Posted by ERV on October 2, 2012 How to do things, from someone who actually does things: How to Protest a ‘Psychic’– Dr. Caleb Lack There is a big difference between writing and talking about doing something, and actually doing something in the Real World. Confuse the two at your own risk. For instance, while it is fine and dandy to demand…
FreeOK2 – Caleb Lack “Separating the Wheat from the Chaff”
Posted by ERV on September 6, 2012 OKC Atheists have done many, many things right. On that list of right things (I encourage all atheist/skeptic groups to do this) is the way our groups support our ‘local talent’. Every month, we have a meet-up called ‘Disbelief Discourse’, dreamed up and executed by my adventures-in-anti-vaxers friend CJ. At these meet-ups, our own members…
Church peddling miracle ‘cures’ in England
Posted by ERV on August 20, 2012 Via Coffee Loving Skeptic– The laziest example of peddling snake-oil I have ever seen. Revealed: Gorton church sells olive oil and blackcurrant squash as miracle ‘cure’ for cancer and HIV M.E.N. reporter: After just 15 minutes I was offered church’s ‘miracle cure’ Pastor: We are trying to help … we aren’t hurting anyone See, normally…
An ‘alternative’ course of ‘treatment’ for a kid with CFS. You know where this is going.
Posted by ERV on August 6, 2012 There has been a ton of hilarious drama going on with the XMRV fiasco, but I havent been writing about it because I dont actually care. I ‘cared’ about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome because it was associated with a retrovirus. Turns out it was all a mirage– The retrovirus known as XMRV is not infecting humans,…