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Juan Williams makes me think reporters should be biased
You won't see this guy around anymore! Wait... he was on radio... how do we make that cliche work now... This past week saw the departure of Juan Williams from NPR. The firing happened in the wake of...
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It’s our Tube too
Go to YouTube right now and type into the search bar: vaccines. Congratulations! You just found an endless stream of the most hyperbolic doom-saying vaccine denialist propaganda that makes Glenn Beck...
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On Being Fat: discrimination against the obese
The blogosphere and comment threads were a buzz last week over an article on the Marie Claire website in which a dating and relationship advice columnist, Maura Kelly, writes: “I think I’d be grossed...
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Score One for the New Media, Not So Sure About Hamburgers
What me rot? You can use your critical thinking skills to analyze a broad amount of information. You can take this critical analysis one step further and conduct simple experiments to gather your own...
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‘Psychic Kids’ needs a spanking
A recent article on Skepchick.org suggested a letter-writing campaign to the television network A&E to complain about their completely reprehensible and morally bankrupt show “Psychic Kids.” I’d...
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Daily Mail Proves Psychic Powers!
I predict John Edward and his buddies will capitalize on this study. Hey! It’s great news! According to a study in the Daily Mail, psychic powers exist and we can see into the future. Wow! Although...
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SafeMinds propaganda blocked by skeptics
This week the anti-vaccine propaganda organization SafeMinds is rolling out a commercial in some movie theaters that makes bogus claims designed to scare people away from getting their annual flu shot....
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Supplemental Nightmares
I am generally skeptical of any claim (made by EITHER the alternative or modern medical camps) that Americans are deficient in any particular vitamin or nutrient. “Americans are not eating enough X,”...
View ArticleWikiLeaks: Free Speech and Private Speech
I have a problem with nearly anything being connected to skepticism. I admit readily that it’s kind of a knee-jerk thing, but from values to beliefs, I don’t want to be told that really anything is...
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Cause of death: Oprah
Over the last few years, there’s been a huge sensation in the Self Health and Actualization Movement (SHAM), and it’s name is The Secret. It essentially co-opted the long-held Self Health and...
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