Skeptophilia
Fighting Gullibility with Sarcasm, 6 days a week
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Elaborate nonsense
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As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I can understand how fear and lack of knowledge can drive you to accept counterfactual nonsense. I ...
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Friday, November 8, 2013
Giant radioactive mutant dog attack!
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It's funny to what extent people will believe unscientific bullshit when they've been primed to do so by fear. And by "funny...
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Thursday, November 7, 2013
Math, nature, nurture, and effort
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The Atlantic ran a story last week by Miles Kimball and Noah Smith called " The Myth of 'I'm Bad at Math.' " In it, ...
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Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Virile as the mighty... kangaroo?
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New from the "What The Hell Are They Thinking?" department, today I found out that the Chinese are marketing a new "alternati...
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Cows are from Mars, wheat is from Venus
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There are some types of woo-woo thinking that I can at least understand. Let's take one of my favorites, which is Tarot card divinatio...
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Monday, November 4, 2013
The turning of the tide
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Sometimes writing this blog seems like whispering into a windstorm. There are so many loopy ideas out there that attacking them is like ta...
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Saturday, November 2, 2013
Waving away the facts
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I always get a kick out of the tactics-switching employed by science deniers when presented with hard data. The young-earth creationists a...
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