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AI: Time Flies
Yesterday was my birthday. I had a lovely day of doing what I do everyday. I did prep work for a new painting, I worked on Surlies, I finished up some custom orders, worked on my website and I went to the gym. It was just another day in the world of Amy, except for the fact that there was…
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AI: Climb Any Mountain
I enjoy challenging myself, overcoming obstacles and achieving goals. I think it’s important to the growing process and it has really helped empower me and to give me a positive sense of self-worth. For example, I used to be terrified to fly. So last year I decided I had enough of that fear and I forced my self to fly…
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Shat on Edward
I stumbled across a few quick bites from the William Shatner interview with John Edward. Enjoy. and John, it is woo woo.
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OMG WTF
I just went to my doctor that I have been seeing at the medical clinic down the road. I went because I thought I might need antibiotics because I’m sick. We started talking about skepticism and long story short, he is a trained chiropractor, goes to a chiropractor, believes acupuncture works and cited a study saying prayer helps patients get…
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A Message to Skeptics
Skeptical activism and our personal role in that activism is a topic that has been floating around quite a bit on this blog as well as other message boards and I think it is an important issue that we as skeptics need to consider. It is very important that we actively engage the public. There are many much louder voices…
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Top 10 Words and Phrases Ruined By Alt Med
I have been out shopping a lot lately. Most people execute their main shopping adventures before the holidays but my little art business keeps me very busy around that time and so it isn’t until after the fact that I even get a chance to hit the grocery store. In the past few days I have been to Target, the…
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Pseudoscience The Gift that Keeps on Giving
Pseudoscience and unsinkable rubber quackery is everywhere. It is in almost every home across the globe, it’s sorta like dust. You can sweep and sweep but by tomorrow there will be more accumulating in the corners. We fight an endless battle here at Skepchick pointing out what is bullshit in this craptacular world. Admittedly, we have a lot of fun…
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An Appeal to Chickens and Other Logical Fallacies
A lot of people like to hand me a lot of pseudoscientific crap. I’m not sure why. Perhaps it’s simply because I spend a large portion of my time at hippy-art festivals or perhaps it is because I look like someone who would entrench themselves in alt-med quackery (the long hair, the tattoos, all the artsy crafting). Or maybe it’s…
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