debunking

My friend Robyn is quite logical about things, and yesterday she was telling me about a person who was a conspiracy theorist and alt-med nut. She thought she'd like to pair this woo woman up with our friend Geoff. Geoff is a fairly critical thinker. I told Robyn I didn't think pairing Geoff...

Noticed my son watching a Captain Disillusion YouTube video the other day, and was pleasantly surprised. Pleasantly surprised to see Captain Disillusion still going; and Pleasantly surprised to see my son watching a skeptical channel under his own initiative; Pleasantly surprised to see a...

The claim is that if we are careful about how we talk to people, we can be far more successful in getting them to change their mind about the stupid and harmful beliefs that they have. I believe this is extremely true, and poorly understood by skeptics. Prof. Stephan Lewandowsky has been at the...

A chance remark I made to Scott Sommers some time ago in another thread has led me to wonder whether there isn't an element of cognitive dissonance to the behaviour of debunkers in this forum, not least myself. It's not what the truthers like to think it is; they have a typically half-formed...

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I keep running into these bogus personality tests at job interviews. They are indentical to the crap tests in womens magazines why are companies so easily sold on this? I call it corporate voodoo. There is one test I have seen several times that is just a list of words and you have to circle...

Hi, I was horified to lean that at an Onclology Nurses Association Dinner last night my wife and the rest of the audience was subjected to what was the equivelent of a Theraputic Touch seminar. I think the woman giving the presentation called it something sububtly different but thats basically...

Co-worker made mention that he had read the soy can have all sorts of bad effects. I asked him for the links, which I provide below. My first reaction is that is BS, but since I'm not very knowledge in this area. I want to get some experienced opinions. To put another way, here's your chance...

Popular Mechanics examines several 9/11 conspiracy theories. For anyone who's interested.

There seems to be a lot of "new age" nonsense related to the Vegetarian movement. Are there any good articles holding them accountable for some of their more outlandish ideas?

Someone know of such website?

The following poorly constructed page claims to show "proof" that the heat generated by the exploding fuel and resulting fires in the WTC was insufficient to weaken the building's steel support. A while back a friend of mine who works at Boeing doing work with chemical propulsion told me that...

There was a great part in "Demon-Haunted World" where Carl toyed with some "UFO abductees" he was in correspondence with. First, he asked the people to write him back and tell him about the "aliens." They would write back and describe the aliens in great detail. Next Carl asked, "What do they...

Ok, I need to know ALL the problems with The Flood story. I'd post in R.P. but it might be derailed quickly. I've thought of a few; carring for polar bears(they overheat in conditions that would kill us), how would all the land species that have ever lived fit on the ark(remember YEC have...