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• Tabletop Transitional – Shit Skeptics Say

  
  Homologous Legs — Authority: 95
  This video has been making the rounds in the skeptical blogosphere, and for good reason: it’s a goodnatured jab at the skeptical community from the inside. Everyone loves making fun of themselves. Well, almost everyone. There’s nothing wrong with analysing your own movement every now and again! I’m sure we ...
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• Dark Of The Night At The AMS

  
  The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE — Authority: 448
  Comment of mine at Judith Curry’s Climate Etc about the Dec 2011 entry in the “45 Beacon: Letter from Headquarters” column of the “Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS)”, written by Keith Seitter, Executive Director of the AMS: Judith – I don’t think you’ve read what he’s written. ...
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• Lysenkoism And ‘Global Warming’ _by Professor Cliff Ollier

  
  The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE — Authority: 448
  Infamous Soviet scientist Trofim Lysenko has become topical again after the recent WSJ “Don’t Panic (about global warming)” letter (read about it also here and here). In the interest of historical record, I am posting here the recovered text of “Lysenkoism And ‘Global Warming’” written some years ago by ...
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• Global warming denialist panel draws 35 people

  
  Skeptic.com — Authority: 428
  U.Va. professor throws cold water on global warming | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com . Earth might be slightly warmer, and sea levels might be slightly higher, but the changes are natural and should not be blamed on fossil-fuel emissions, a panel of scientists and skeptics said at a public forum Tuesday. ...
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• Do extreme weather events make you more liberal?

  
  Lousy Canuck — Authority: 117
  I will happily admit, the next several posts over the next several days constitute me trying to play some amount of catch-up with my ever-burgeoning Firefox tabs and RSS feeds. I’m trying to post a bunch of days ahead of time, too, so I might be reporting on some older stuff. But I’ll try to keep it fresh and ...
  1 week ago

• Global Lukewarming: A Great Intellectual Year in 2011

  
  MasterResource — Authority: 501
  “This begins to start to make you wonder whether there is some fundamental problem between climate models and reality.” “Lukewarmers” are those scientists (and others) who believe the balance of evidence is middling between “climate alarmists” (who tend to think that the global temperature rise will ...
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• Singularity 101: Be Skeptical! (Even of Skeptics)

  
  The Work of Michael Shermer — Authority: 394
  Michael Shermer appeared on the Singularity 1 on 1 podcast after meeting its creator, Nikola (a.k.a “Socrates”), at a recent Singularity Summit in New York ( watch Michael’s lecture ). Discussion included a variety of topics such as: Michael’s education at a Christian college and original interest in ...
  1 week ago

• SOPA, Internet regulation, and the economics of piracy

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 131
  Earlier this month, I detailed at some length why claims about the purported economic harms of piracy, offered by supporters of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT-IP Act (PIPA), ought to be treated with much more skepticism than they generally get from journalists and policymakers.  My own view is that ...
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• In support of Jessica Ahlquist

  
  Cubik's Rube — Authority: 415
  Okay, this is finally starting to really piss me off. For the benefit of morons, here is a complete list of every situation in which calling a 16-year-old girl a “stupid bitch”, “not human”, “garbage”, and a “fucking worthless cunt”, and praying for her to be punched in the face, curb stomped, raped, ...
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• More ^Than Men: The Problem With Privilege

  
  Lousy Canuck — Authority: 117
  I’ve submitted a post to the More ^Than Men project , run by Sasha Pixlee for the Women Thinking Free Foundation. A teaser: I am engaged actively in a number of struggles with which even some of my more adversarial readers at my blog, Lousy Canuck, must sympathize. I cater specifically to a few niche audiences by ...
  1 week ago

• Linksplat – 17/01/12

  
  Cubik's Rube — Authority: 415
  – Depressingly, I don’t find it hard to believe that a Republican Congressman could be caught publicly praying for Obama’s death . However, given the exact Bible quote he was referring to, isn’t it entirely possible he was just hoping for the guy to lose an election? – These statistics on drug-related ...
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• A neat finding about pseudonymous commenters—and why you should question it

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 839
  Heres some interesting data that I would like to believe is true—mainly because it matches up with what Ive experienced here at BoingBoing. Many of you use some kind of pseudonym in the comments, whether its first-name-only, an Internet handle, or a completely fake name. My experience here has taught me that, ...
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• On belief and the unprovable.

  
  To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth — Authority: 103
  what is unprovable is to that extent unbelievableIve said previously that, in my view, what is unprovable is to that extent unbelievable. I should probably explain and defend that, at least a little. I think its a good and useful principle for skeptical thinking.The claim amounts to saying that it is literally ...
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• NECSS 2012

  
  NeuroLogica Blog — Authority: 513
   It’s the beginning of the new science and skeptical conference season, starting with the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism (NECSS) 2012 April 21-22 in New York City! This year we have Michael Specter, author of Denialism, as a keynote speaker. James Randi will be attending, as well as other skeptical ...
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• Why am I anti-Christian when it’s irrelevant to my life?

  
  Darryl Sloan — Authority: 89
  I make a lot of videos against Christianity. This might seem a bit obsessive, when Christianity is an irrelevance to my life. But there is a good reason for it.
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• Linksplat – 16/01/12

  
  Cubik's Rube — Authority: 415
  – No, it’s not Blue Monday . And if you’re using that nonsense as anything other than an excuse to break out some New Order LPs and go on a nostalgia binge, you’re doing it wrong. – The TSA has compiled a list of its best “catches” – that is, people detained by their security staff at airports – ...
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• Skeptic Zone interview: Doooooomsday

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 674
  My old pal Richard Saunders from Australia skyped me up (which sounds dirtier than it is) and we chatted about doomsday prophecies — 2012, mostly, but also all the endless failed predictions of years gone by — for his podcast The Skeptic Zone (you can grab the MP3 here too). It’s always fun to chat with ...
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• Paranormal news and C.H.A.P.S. Meet-up Replay

  
  Mind Cemetery — Authority: 403
      Tonight we will be having our first Paranormal News and Carolina Hauntings, Apparitions and Poltergeist Society Meet-up Replay show of the year. During the first meet-up of the year we were joined by a very gifted and talented woman by the name of Lyneah Marks who is a local here in the triangle. Down here ...
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• Psychic Nikki’s Powers of Prediction

  
  Cubik's Rube — Authority: 415
  Psychic Nikki has been “clairvoyant all her life”. She “has appeared on several top-rated international television shows”, and her famous clients include Rod Stewart, Matt Dillon, and Survivor Contestants (I love that guy!) Nikki has also made some predictions about what’s going to happen in 2012. Why ...
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• Unnatural Acts

  
  The Thinker — Authority: 109
  “ Unnatural Acts: Critical Thinking, Skepticism and Science Exposed! ” is the name of a critical thinking book by Robert Todd Carroll. I just learned that he has started a blog as a follow-up to the book. The blog “will offer irregular postings about biases, fallacies, and illusions.” Unnatural Acts © ...
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