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• Broom Stands on its Own

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 162
  This is an example of why being a skeptic is good. I came down and this broom was standing upright by its own. Well I took two pics and it looks like it is against the fridge (inset image), but it is not. It is in front of the fridge. I took another pic from [...]
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• Global Warming farfromproven

  
  Adiaphora - a prologue to things indifferent. — Authority: 132
  fahrfromprovin fahrfromproven farfromprovin climategate Anybody remember those old Fahrvergnügen commercials? They spawned a whole industry of cheap t-shirts of German-sounding neologisms: Fahrfrompoopin - constipated Fahrfromthinkin - an idiot Fahrfrompukin - partying ...
  6 hours ago

• I’m On The 365 Days Of Astronomy Podcast – Again!

  
  PodBlack Cat — Authority: 472
  Many many thanks to Milton Mermikides and Richard Saunders for helping me contribute to the show for the second time! You can catch most of the episodes that the Skeptic Zone podcast have done by checking out an earlier blog entry, ‘ Richard Saunders – On Parsec-Winning 365 Days Of Astronomy Podcast! ‘ ...
  12 hours ago

• Copenhagen Countdown: Nick Griffin’s stance backed by academic

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 611
  JUST days before British National Party chairman, Nick Griffin, goes to the Copenhagen summit as the leading political skeptic of man-made climate change, his stance has received the backing of a senior academic in the field. Professor Ian Plimer (left) has called the claim that the planet is threatened by man-made ...
  12 hours ago

• 09-12-02

  
  Skeptic.com — Authority: 110
  In this week’s eSkeptic : call to action: Help Skeptic at No Cost to You! upcoming geology tour: A Death Valley Adventure (20 SPOTS LEFT!) year-end clearance: TWO SUPER DEALS! want SKEPTIC for Christmas? Tell a friend! Skepticality: Evolutionary Medicine latest from ...
  18 hours ago

• I’m On Skeptically Speaking This Week!

  
  PodBlack Cat — Authority: 472
  Wahhh! Skeptically Speaking is a great show (I keep getting shout-outs on it and I promptly hide behind the couch whenever they happen) – you can hear me and Dr Martin Bridgstock on it this weekend! It will be broadcast live, so you can hear it on the site (please phone in! Or zip in an email with questions!) ...
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• Big Apple Squash

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 154
  Look what happens if you aren’t vigilant when driving in New York! Psst Yeah, yeah Bearman it is a stunt OK! But admit it I had you going for a second? Geez, always the party pooper!
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• Australian Skeptics Award For Toni and David McCaffery

  
  PodBlack Cat — Authority: 472
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_LOMtg2tOo You can read the whole story at the Australian Skeptics website - as soon as this presentation was made, I urged Richard Saunders to make sure it got online. ShareThis
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• Jillian Michaels’ Extreme Fat Burner Gets Terrible Reviews in the Blogosphere

  
  Health And Fitness Advice — Authority: 115
  Do a Bing search for reviews of “The Biggest Loser’s” Jillian Michaels’ Extreme Fat Burner weight loss supplement and you’ll find the results on the first page of Bing agree with the HealthAndFitnessAdvice.com position that this is a product to stay away from.  You’ll find most of these same reviews if ...
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• PLAN for a RANDI Christmas!

  
  SCIENCE-BASED PARENTING — Authority: 120
  The James Randi Education Foundation has begun the “ Season for Reason ” campaign. Their goal is to raise $25,000 for the purpose of creating a web site geared toward teaching critical thinking skills to children. Those who donate at least $100 to the JREF will receive a free “Best of TAM” DVD, featuring ...
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• Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 140
  Image by oxfam international via Flickr Evidence for human interference with Earth’s climate continues to accumulate On November 18, with the United Nations Global Warming Conference in Copenhagen fast approaching, U.S. Senator James R. Inhofe (R-Okla.) took the floor of the Senate and proclaimed 2009 to ...
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• The Skeptic Magazine on Facebook.

  
  The Skeptic: Blog — Authority: 461
  As you can likely guess from the title, The Skeptic Magazine has a Facebook page . We will be using Facebook increasingly post updates and interesting news on the page, so do click to ‘become a fan’ if you’re interested. The Skeptic on #FB
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• Michael Mann to be investigated over CRU emails

  
  Is It Getting Warmer? — Authority: 116
  It appears that Michael Mann, the Associate Professor of Meteorology from Penn State , will be investigated regarding concerns that were brought up after the release of the East Anglia CRU emails and documents . When I first saw the release for this investigation , it seemed a bit suspicious. It did not contain ...
  2 days ago

• Atheist Christmas cards (Special Offer).

  
  The Skeptic: Blog — Authority: 461
  The full range of cards can be seen at http://www.cafepress.com/atheistxmas . Famous atheists such as Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris celebrate Christmas, and they’re not alone. Order of St. Nick, a greeting card publisher specializing in funny and alternative holiday greeting cards, believes that everyone ...
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• New Horror Thrillers From IFC Films

  
  Hellnotes — Authority: 138
  IFC In Theaters, makes independent films available to a national audience by releasing them simultaneously in theaters as well as on cables On Demand platform.
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• The Real Meaning of Those Stolen Climate Emails

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 499
  The pilfering of email correspondence among climate scientists from a major climate center in Britain two weeks ago has grown into a very public controversy unimaginatively dubbed “Climategate.” Some of the emails revealed those scientists scoffing at (but also fearful of) climate skeptics — to the point of ...
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• Homeopathy from the NHS?

  
  The Skeptic: Blog — Authority: 461
  Should homeopathy be included on the NHS? Most of us would say no, simply because we do not believe the evidence supports the basis on which homeopathy is claimed to work. “Like cures like” is possible enough – indeed, it sounds very similar to the basis on which working vaccines to diseases like flu are ...
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• Cool Green Morning: Monday, November 30

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 499
  Thanksgiving : Gain 5 pounds, take 5 days off. Monday After Thanksgiving : Come back to work, find 5 great new green stories, fresh from the online space. I’ll make that trade-off any Cool Green Morning. (See you on the elliptical.) Who’s going to save one of the world’s largest peat swamp forests from being ...
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• Those Who Can, Teach, Those Who Can’t Are Criminals

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 154
  I was young, it was college, I only took a puff! Of all the dumbassed nanny state ideas! Ofsted want all the estimated 40,000 parents who are teaching their kids at home to undergo a criminal records check. The parents who fall below the line of Mary Poppin’s status should then be barred from teaching their own ...
  2 days ago

• Holiday warning!

  
  Digital Bits Skeptic — Authority: 401
  Hi everyone,Just letting you know that you’ll not get an article this week. Also, publication throughout the Christmas holiday may be a little sporadic.I do have a good article queued up for next week, however. Stay tuned for more on the recent news stories about Rom Houben and “facilitated ...
  3 days ago

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