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Skepchick Guest Article #5 – Jeff Penalty
Skepchick’s fifth guest writer is Jeff Penalty, an amazingly talented rock star and writer who happens to be a smart critical thinker. He ventured into the depths of a creationist playground to bring us this amusing, yet slightly depressing, tale of a childhood lost. With pictures! Enjoy. Large Marge Sent Me – To Learn About Creationism! Jeff Penalty Aside from…
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The Link You Just Followed is Old!
Hello! You’re seeing this post because you followed an outdated link to Skepchick.org. If you keep ending up here, you have to clear your browser’s cache and try again. Sorry about that! Now here’s an old post from January 2009: Blog Awards and Shamelessness Before I begin, allow me to surgically remove my modesty organ and place it way in…
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Sanjay Gupta the New US Surgeon General?
It’s looking suspiciously as though Dr. Sanjay Gupta is going to be offered (and accept) the position of US Surgeon General. Gupta is a very well-known television personality, appearing on Anderson Cooper’s show often and acting as CNN’s chief medical correspondent. With vaccines and autism so much in the news, you may be interested to know that he got a…
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Why Travolta’s Tragedy Doesn’t Spell the End for Scientology
There’s currently a story getting big hits on Reddit, linking to the original post on Gawker: Time to Audit Scientology’s Anti-Medicine Stance – The tragic death of Travolta’s son could spell the end of Scientology, sci-fi author L. Ron Hubbard’s loopy, medicine-hating cult from the 1950s. (That’s the full link title on Reddit and the headline/first sentence of the Gawker…
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Fundie Country Music Grandpa Hates You
I hate to be the one to tell you, but the guy who wrote The Devil Went Down to Georgia is a half-wit. Well, okay, more like a quarter-wit. Yesterday, popular skeptical blogger and punk rock star Rodney Anonymous sent out an alert that country music star Charlie Daniels was blathering away on his site with anti-rationalist hatred. I see…
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Comment o’ the Week: Last/First of the Year!
It’s the first posted of the year, but the actual comment was made last year, so that makes this…oh whatever. It’s Comment o’ the Week! Oh, but before I get to it, I want to mention a few things you might enjoy. First, a few weeks ago I was really happy to hear Iszi and Simon read an email from…
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Happy New Year!
Indulge me. I’ve already posted two Top 10 of 2008 lists, so I promise this is my last standard end-of-year/start-of-new-year post. Last January, I set some goals for myself. Let’s see how I did! 1. Rock harder I definitely managed to do this. More conferences, more fun, more travel, more rock shows, and I had an asteroid named after me.…
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Top 10 Skeptics Who Kicked Ass in 2008
As when I was compiling the top 10 jackasses of 2008, I had a really tough time choosing who did the most for skepticism this year. So, I threw the question to my Twitter followers. This is called “crowdsourcing,” which is like journalism for lazy people. The sad thing is that not a single person nominated a single woman, with…
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