Skeptophilia
Fighting Gullibility with Sarcasm, 6 days a week
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Sylphs to the rescue!
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So, I have good news for those of you who are afraid of chemtrails. I've posted more than once recently about the increasingly widespr...
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Friday, September 13, 2013
The power of "only"
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Today, I ran into a story that got me thinking about how powerful a single word can be in changing the gist of a claim. An article in Onl...
Thursday, September 12, 2013
There's this thing called "reality." You might want to check it out.
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As a blogger who focuses continually on the crazy ideas people have, you'd think that after a while, I'd either (1) become cynical, ...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Attack of the teenage exorcists
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In previous posts I've described a lot of examples of Poe's Law -- a rule that states that it is impossible to tell the difference b...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Microchipping Napoleon
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When one of my loyal readers sent me an email asking if I'd heard about the alien microchip implanted in Napoleon's skull, I knew th...
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Monday, September 9, 2013
Go away, atheists. We're tired of you.
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Many of you have undoubtedly heard about the lawsuit currently making its way through the courts in Massachusetts, in which the state's ...
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Saturday, September 7, 2013
Thinking with both sides of the brain
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One of the reasons I love science is that it challenges our preconceived notions about the way the world works. We are data-gatherers and ...
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