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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...

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This has always bothered me. People claiming to be skeptics who hold out in their belief in god. I postulate that someone can't be a skeptic and have any true belief in any god(s). To me, being a skeptic means formulating opinions and thoughts based on critical and rational thinking, logic...

Please consider the following two narratives. One story is widely believed (with adherents numbering in the billions), while the other has—to my knowledge—no adherents. Analyze each narrative’s plausibility, and think about whether one is more probable than the other is. Narrative One: Around...

Hello all, I had an "eye opening" experience last weekend, which I'm pretty sure many of you have been through already. Before I start to relate this let me just say that I've been a bona fide skeptic for a few years now but I have yet to find one person worthy of the name "skeptic" in my...

Hello all. Have been a fan of Randi and this forum for a while, but in "lurking mode" until late. This site should be absolute must-reading for any scholar and teacher alike. I am a 41-year-old "noob" here, an engineer by trade, a skeptic, and good friends with way-more Atheists than...

Vervet Monkeys give alarm calls to warn fellow monkeys of the presence of predators, even though in doing so they attract attention to themselves, increasing their personal chance of being attacked. The Vervet Monkey seems to possess what has been called the "rudiments of language". Alarm calls...

Hello Everybody, as it turns out I'll be doing quite some travelling in my new job. Not only that, but my trainingweeks will be in London and that's where my question comes in. I would like to buy some books while there to get rid of my woowoo-mindset (Books aren't really cheap in Belgium to...

Last night was the 1st Bay Area Skeptic Meetup. In attendance were several people whose real names and/or usernames are now lost to my brain. I'm sure they'll post here to tell me I'm a jerkface. Unfortunately, Roadtoad couldn't make it becaues he had that new job and I guess he likes to eat...

I want to start a South African skeptical community. Or at least somewhere where we can join resources on all things skeptical in South Africa. I'm not aware of something like that yet, so if there is, please point me in the right direction so that I can help out. If not, please go to...

I found one called R.E.A.S.O.N. But it doesn’t look like there meeting anymore or perhaps there busy and just haven't responded to my email. At any rate, does anybody know of any other Skeptic groups in the Nebraska area specifically Omaha? B.

I am a member of a rabbit forum, which is 99.9% female. Without wishing to offend any female sceptics here, it does appear to the vast majority of members believe in some major form of woo or other, with homeopathy being chief. Week after week we get posts from people praising homeopathy and...

Barry Williams - Confessions of a Feral Skeptic http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1035964420845101318 or http://tinyurl.com/prztr Barry Williams, CEO of Australian Skeptics talks about his adventures. Learn about the origins of Australian Skeptics.

I've studied the psychology of skeptics and I have determined that many of you, as children, were fooled or forced into believing such things as Magic, The Easter Bunny, Religions, Santa etc. And as you grew older and came to the realization that these things were a fallacy, it sadly, turned you...

I am very proud of my 12-year-old nephew. His family attends church, so I have been careful not to offend my sister and her husband, but I've been quietly introducing him to critical thinking. Hayden (my nephew) has a best friend whose mother believes that she and her cat have a psychic bond...

I know there's probably an obvious answer but for the life me...... damn, I'm cold. BTW - that's a skeptic about god, not other psuedo-science stuff.

I've been contacted by a reporter from NBC who wants to interview a skeptic from the Bay Area about the Global Consciousness Project. If you want to help out, here's your chance! Contact me at editor@skepticreport.com for further details. (If you don't know all that much about the GCP, I can...

TAM4 was, well, amazing. It was easily the most educational three days of my life. One thing really stuck out in my mind as a critical moment in the meeting. When Hal (I approached him later, and called him “Sir”, he insisted I call him Hal. What a guy, eh?) spoke at length about the issue of...

Hey, I would really like to thank all of those involved with making TAM4 what it was. I had a great time. The JREF hosted a wonderful event and all I have for those of you who put in your time and energy to make it so are kudos and more kudos. As a founder of The Skeptic Friends Network I want...

...from the idiot running around with the microphones. Man that was a blast. Thank you all so much. It honestly was my "bullsh*t" Woodstock. Some funny moments: Me: So Penn, is it indeed tricky to rock a rhyme? Penn: It's tricky to rock a rhyme on time. I have a recording of Adam Savage...

I've recently started dabbling with listening to podcasts. I had gotten discouraged before because my Philips MP3 player has the charming "feature" of resuming at the beginning of the last "song" you were listening to. With a one-hour podcast, which I would listen to in several sessions, that...

I’d like to share my little story of how I became a skeptic & atheist. Took me many years to become a full skeptic it was gradual process. Years ago as I child I believed in god and all sorts of silly things. I recall vividly believing in aliens visiting our world especially (thank you X-files)...

I recently sent this e-mail to Randi, and I'm curious what everyone else thinks. _______________________ I don't know if you've addressed this in a commentary yet, but maybe one day you could. As a parent who is a skeptic and atheist, how would you handle teaching your children? Should you...

Some of you may remember USA? He also attended several TAMs, where he was a valued volunteer as well as proudlly wearing a skepchick security tshirt. For those of you that want to know what he's been working on, skeptically at least, scroll down to read his article on education! Good work...

A funny thing happened to me at work earlier today... It all began last week, either Thursday or Friday morning, when I came in and told my adjacent coworkers (in a very friendly, conversational albeit skeptical tone of voice): "I'm not the one to believe in this psychic stuff, but last night I...

Hey all http://www.skeptics.com.au/tank/index.html The latest episode of The Skeptic Tank is here. It is about psychic detectives, and features illusionist Mark Mayer who has a lot to say about Alison DuBois. Mark's psychokinetic powers are so great that on several occasions while Alison was...

Here is the new show: http://www.skeptics.com.au/tank/index.html or direct http://www.skeptics.com.au/tank/050929.mp3 This week's show is about quackery Enjoy..

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Some have argued that the term "True Skeptic" is a fallacy. Do you agree? Definition: Some opponents of the term True Skeptic claim that it falls under the "No True Scotsman" fallacy. On the surface, this may seem like a no-brainer. It is, indeed. This from the real wiki entry for "No...

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