Being a skeptic can be tricky; who should you trust?
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shadeydave @
1:21 am |
September 15, 2010
Filed under: Critical Thinking,Newsletter Articles,Skepticism
Filed under: Critical Thinking,Newsletter Articles,Skepticism
Open your mind, you new-age freak!
Emotional Numbers
Did you ever wish for something and have it come true, or sit on the edge of your seat with a good luck charm during a major sports event, willing the game to swing to your team’s favour, and have it actually pay off? Have you ever won the lottery (no matter how small the pay off) based on your own “lucky” set of numbers? (more…)
Is sunscreen bad for you?
Recently the Environmental Working Group released a report on sunscreen, recommending only 39 of 500 sunscreens investigated. The report has been picked up by media outlets and now sunscreen is being touted as cancer-causing and hormone-disrupting. Let’s examine some of the issues and concerns the report raises.
Book review
The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (1995), by
Christopher Hitchens
The beauty in television snow
I’ve been looking at different complex systems lately; I’m becoming more and more fascinated with a term called “Emergence.” It’s when you perceive a complex and beautiful pattern from a huge amount of individual, simple objects guided by simple rules.
Come on (or out!), skeptics—we need you
James Randi came out of the closet last month and I speak for the Association for Science and Reason when I say, “Congratulations, Randi!”
Let’s get some movement in the movement
I love that there is a skeptical ‘movement.’ I love knowing that there are like-minded people out there, compatriots with whom I can bitch and moan, hash out ideas, learn something, debate, and have some laughs. I love that here in Toronto we meet once a month at our Skeptics in the Pub event to do exactly these things. Having a movement provides a sense of belonging, of community — some might even say family.
Science: It’s the law!
I recently overheard something that no doubt many of us have heard in one form or another — that you can pay a heavy price for breaking the laws of nature. Since I wasn’t party to the conversation I resisted the urge to butt in, but there was definitely some squirming on my part.
Religion was not born of fear
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“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.”
- Francis Bacon, Of Death