Skeptophilia
Fighting Gullibility with Sarcasm, 6 days a week
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luck
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Saturday, March 15, 2025
Ill-starred
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I've never believed in luck. It's true, however, that life is full of caprices. Although the laws of physics are rigorously enforc...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
The law of small numbers
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A few days ago, I had a perfectly dreadful day. The events varied from the truly tragic (receiving news that a former student had died) to t...
Monday, August 9, 2021
It's in the palm of your hand
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Amongst the downsides of being superstitious is that sometimes, you find out you're in for some bad luck. A girl I went to college with ...
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Thursday, July 18, 2013
It's in the palm of your hand
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Amongst the downsides of being superstitious is that sometimes, you find out you're in for some bad luck. A girl I went to college wit...
Thursday, June 13, 2013
We've got your number
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Today's question is: how far should you go in accommodating people's irrational superstitions? The whole question comes up because...
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Pavlov's curse
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I'm sure many of you know about classical conditioning , a feature of learned behavior in which an individual learns to associate two th...
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