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New Feature: Ask a Gay Guy
It has recently come to my attention that we had a bit of a kerfuffle here on the Skepchick blog, regarding an apparently homophobic comment made by Sam in his post, “A Fool and His Monkey are Soon High-Hatted.” I read the post and the follow-up responses, and I immediately felt as though Sam’s comment was completely innocuous, and that…
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Friendship Update
I’ve been storing up a lot of small update-ish sort of things, waiting to post them all at once to save you all from adding to the avalanche of posts we’ve had recently here on Skepchick. So! First of all, those of you who are fans of Mike the Mad Biologist but were unable to see his talk at Boston…
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Audio of PZ Myers Crashing the Expelled Teleconference
Yesterday, the PR company hired by Expelled invited me (among many other members of the press and nontraditional media) to participate in a teleconference today with Ben Stein, Mark Malkis, and the other film makers. I was pretty annoyed at the start, since they decided that instead of an open press conference with, you know, free speech, people had to…
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Comment O’ The Week!
Once again, I’m allowing our smart and sexy Skepchick commenters to take the stage. Today’s pithy post comes from a story that just absolutely begs for sarcastic retorts — Bigfoot Told Him to Do It: Expatria // Mar 27, 2008 at 8:35 pm The thing that troubles me most is that Bigfoot has always been so gentle with me. And…
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Bigfoot Made Him Do It
Gene Morrill is a 57-year old man who was just convicted in Virginia of soliciting sex from a minor online. Prior to his sentencing, he defended his actions by stating that he was once molested by Bigfoot. This has prompted the world to wonder: IS IT TRUE? Luckily, crack journalist Jessica Weinstein of local ABC affiliate WJLA was on the…
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Expelled Exposed!
We’ve already gone over the whole PZ Myers vs. Ben Stein bonanza, and yes, the whole thing has pretty much buried any credibility the creationists ever had (they had credibility?). But, hell, let’s keep going just in case. I’m recording the next Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe episode right now, and we just finished a great interview with my favorite…
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Boston Skeptics in the Pub Pics!
Thanks to everyone who came out to the very first Boston Skeptics in the Pub! I estimate we netted 50 or 60 people, filling up the Asgard’s back room and overflowing into their slightly-more-frontward back room. Mike the Mad Biologist got high praise for a fascinating talk full of science-y goodness. Audio of Mike’s talk will be online by this…
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Everybody Loves HypnoToad
A helluva lot of people sent me the news that a man in Rome hypnotized a grocery store cashier and brazenly robbed her without a problem. Everyone has reported on it, like these guys. The evidence? A closed circuit TV showing one incident, and a report that supposedly says there have been a string of these robberies. So, what’s the…
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