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• Go with Throttle Up? Skeptic Magazine on the Large Hadron Collider

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  In reading my most recent dead tree edition of Skeptic magazine, I noticed that there were two articles on the Large Hadron Collider and the potential catastrophic effects that could come from bringing it up to full power (black holes eating the Earth etc.). I’ve raised my own nervy questions about this here , ...
  4 days ago

• The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule by Michael Shermer

  
  Cogita Tute - Think For Yourself — Authority: 125
  A really quite seriously beautiful look into this huge and well travelled subject. What can Shermer add to the huge pile of debate and polemic already out there on this topic?  Rational inquiry based upon evidence. This makes his contribution very different to most.  Evolutionary theory, morality and determinism ...
  6 days ago

• Reasonable Enough: Why Reason Does Not Compel Acceptance

  
  DefendingGenesis.org — Authority: 412
  It is COMPLETELY WRONG to say that I think atheists or any other non-Christians would agree with me if they would just open up their eyes and see reason.  I do not believe reason could infect someone [profoundly affect someone] so as to compel them to see my position as truth. I don’t think that at [...]
  6 days ago

• Debating the Origins of Life

  
  Manawatu Christian Apologetics Society — Authority: 119
  Dr. Stephen Meyer will debate Skeptic magazine editor and Darwin defender Michael Shermer in Beverly Hills on Monday November 30.More info on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=184759894536&ref=share
  1 week ago

• Quickhit: Michael Shermer video version of Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit

  
  Hoyden About Town — Authority: 137
  This video was published by the Richard Dawkins Foundation in June this year. The original kit was published as Chapter 12: The Fine Art of Baloney Detection in Carl Sagan’s book The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (ISBN 0-394-53512-X / ISBN 0-345-40946-9). This site from the Australian ...
  1 week ago

• Will E.T. Look Like Us?

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 585
  Michael Shermer asks an imponderable question in Scientific American Magazine : What are the odds that intelligent, technically advanced aliens would look anything like the ones in films, with an emaciated torso and limbs, spindly fingers and a bulbous, bald head with large, almond-shaped eyes? What are the odds ...
  1 week ago

• A Good Quote for Skeptical Bloggers from Ernest Hemingway

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  This Hemingway quote comes from The Writer’s Quotation Book (1985, p. 55): The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shock-proof shit-detector.
  1 week ago

• A River Not Out of Eden: Christopher Columbus and Critical Thinking

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 142
  On page 2 of  A New Literary History of America (Harvard 2009) is an interesting account of what Christopher Columbus thought he had found when he explored the Venezuelan coast on his third voyage to what would come to be known as America. Columbus, when “he came across four great rivers gushing out into the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Of Douchebags and Douchebagery.

  
  Darkly Dreaming David — Authority: 111
  There’s a few douches I’ve been meaning to comment about and one of them used to be my hero.LINDSEY GRAHAMDude you are so gay, just come out of that closet already. Every time you show up on the news, gaydars all around this world explode. More seriously you are pro-defense of marriage act which is [...]
  2 weeks ago

• On the scope of skeptical inquiry

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  There has been much discussion lately on this blog and elsewhere about the relationships among skepticism, atheism, and politics. I have roundly criticized Richard Dawkins for extending scientific skepticism into areas that are more properly the domain of philosophical analysis, as well as Penn and Teller and Michael ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why does life suck?

  
  ScentTrail Marketing — Authority: 123
  Before my friends write because they are worried, I don’t think life sucks, at least not in aggregate. As a marketing guy Ive learned negative headlines asking intriguing questions are more likely to grab attention than “life is wonderful” bromides. Why is that? Michael Shermer in his masterful book Mind of ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Fine Art of Baloney Detection

  
  Heaving Dead Cats — Authority: 121
  This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Logic and Critical Thinking Skeptical thinking is such a wonderful tool to have. It means you don’t get scammed or BS’ed nearly as much by shoddy news or dodgy advertising. You also get to save money because you’ll be less apt to buy gimmicky cure-alls that do nothing ...
  3 weeks ago

• News Shots 10/21/09

  
  Johnny No One: I Hope You're Happy — Authority: 116
  So Chris Dodd is only mostly bad Chris Dodd introduces bill to limit bank overdraft fees and change regulations heavily in consumers favor. Let’s face it, this sounds like a good cause-effect relationship. You can imagine nefarious bankers saying, “First, we create a huge economic crisis, then when people are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Shermer nails Maher

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 693
  Skeptic Michael Shermer wrote an open letter to antivaxxer Bill Maher, and to be frank, Shermer hit it out of the park. There’s nothing I need to or can add to what he wrote. Go read it.
  3 weeks ago

• Bill Maher Falls Off the Wagon

  
  Philosophy On The Mesa — Authority: 125
  Bill Maher is usually smart and funny but last week on on his HBO show “Real Time With Bill Maher,” he was neither when he advised people not to get their H1N1 flu vaccine. In an interview with heart surgeon and former Republican Senator Bill Frist, Maher claimed that no one should let someone stick “a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Genesis Explained Scientifically

  
  The Misanthropic Principle — Authority: 107
  I like this film and much of what I see from the Skeptics Society. I’ve even been to some lectures sponsored by the group. However, I am often not a fan of Shermer on the subject of religion. I disagree with him on the correct skeptical position with regard to god. He believes the skeptics position to be ...
  3 weeks ago

• Maher fails on vaccines

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 132
  Bill Maher is risking his credentials as critical thinker with his continuing rants against vaccines — he’s questioned the safety of vaccines on two episodes in a row. Worse, he’s risking the health of those who listen to him — and even worse still, the health of those they infect by not getting vaccines. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Little Kitten - Mr Deity And The Skeptic

  
  PodBlack Cat — Authority: 428
  www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gnQz32c5EA
  8 weeks ago

• Michael Shermer on Mr. Deity

  
  Skepfeeds-The Best Skeptical blogs of the day — Authority: 121
  Posted in Skepdude Tagged: Michael Shermer, Mr. Deity
  8 weeks ago

• Mr. Deity and the Skeptic! (Michael Shermer)

  
  Heaving Dead Cats — Authority: 121
  Mr. Deity is awesome. Here’s the latest with guest Michael Shermer, PhD: If you haven’t seen all the episodes, they do sort of build on each other. You can subscribe to them on iTunes (search for Mr. Deity) or you can go to MrDeity.com to catch up. Season 2 is only available there now, I believe. So go watch ...
  8 weeks ago

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