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Category: Skepticism
For a full year, A.J. Jacobs followed every piece of health advice he could -- from applying sunscreen by the shot glass to wearing a bicycle helmet while shopping. Onstage at TEDMED, he shares the surprising things he learned....
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Category: Skeptical Skepticism
Skeptics love to hate CAM. And often, with good reason. Alternative medicines or medical treatments, as is often pointed out, become "mainstream" when the available science suggests that they work, so it is almost axiomatic that "alternative" means "unproven" and it is probably almost always...
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Category: Skepticism
TV show Mythbusters has apologized after an experiment it conducted to measure the speed of a cannonball went wrong, leaving a trail of destruction across a California suburb. Instead of hitting its intended target, the cannon misfired, sending a six-inch ball of lead careening through...
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Category: Rebeccapocalypse
Just an idea ... not entirely work safe ... below the fold....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:23 AM • 197 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Aging
Recently, Richard Dawkins said (full quote below) that a woman should not be concerned about her own safety if she finds herself in an elevator (under some sort of threat, presumably), because it is trivially easy to get out of an elevator if you are...
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Category: Skeptical Skepticism
And thus, structurally, Richard Dawkins, or his distant cousin Richard D. Poe (I am still not sure) has shut down the argument that the Elevator Guy acted inappropriately when he asked Rebecca Watson over for a cuppa joe at four O'clock in the AM, in...
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Category: Skeptical Skepticism
Good morning....
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Category: Atheism
I have a theory as to why atheism and skeptcisim tend to be old-white-guy activities (even when they are not) which might explain this picture: But I'll tell you this theory only if certain conditions pertain: 1) You are someone I trust and 2) I'm...
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Category: Skeptical Skepticism
I honestly think that it is too early to have this conversation, but alas, the conversation has been forced....
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Category: Skeptical Skepticism
Jen McCreight writes the blog Blag Hag and became famous last year for attempting unsuccessfully to prove that if a large number of women wore low cut shirts there would be a major earthquake. (It turns out that there was a 7-point-something earthquake on "Boob...
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