Quickies
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Skepchick Quickies, 6.27
How belief in the Tooth Fairy can engender false memories: “These findings suggest that children’s beliefs in the reality of fantastic phenomena can give rise to genuine constructive memory errors in line with their fantasies.” A field guide to bullshit: “There’s a belief system about water to which we all sign up: it freezes at 0 °C and boils at…
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Skepchick Quickies 6.24
Why we need part-time, and women, and doctors – A response to the NYT piece asserting that women doctors are ruining medicine. From Buzz Parsec. North Carolina considers paying forced sterilization victims – “Barely 40 years ago, it wasn’t uncommon for a single mother on welfare, or a patient in a mental hospital in North Carolina, to be sterilized against…
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Skepchick Quickies 6.23
James Arthur Ray found guilty in sweat lodge deaths – He was found guilty of negligent homicide meaning he was, “was found to have caused the deaths…but did not necessarily recognize the risk he put them in.” Child interstate abortion act introduced in Congress – So if you’re under 18 and your closest provider is across state lines, you get…
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Skepchick Quickies, 6.22
Climate change: public skeptical, scientists sure: “The American public is less likely to believe in global warming than it was just five years ago. Yet, paradoxically, scientists are more confident than ever that climate change is real and caused largely by human activities.” (From Tmac57.) Want to help improve medical science reporting? Welcome to Science-ish. (From PrimevilKneivel.) Whining may be…
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Skepchick Quickies 6.21
Revenge of the Feminerd: Nerd “hyperwhiteness” – From Mark. Grief Beyond Belief – Greta Christina announces the launch of Grief Beyond Belief, “a Facebook page/ support network for atheists and other non-believers grieving the death a loved one.” Scientists are talking, but mostly to each other – From Mike S. A womb in Paris – “When it comes to most…
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Skepchick Quickies
Hey, want to buy the rights to Ben Stein’s Expelled. It’s scheduled to be auctioned. (From Simon.) Dismantled sweat lodge exposes rift in Christian, traditional teaching. Why expert predictions routinely fail and we believe them anyway. (From jes3ica.) Surprisingly easy ways to make kids smarter. (From cerberus40.)
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Skepchick Quickies 6.17
Bigfoot investigators hope DNA test will confirm existence of two man-beasts – “California Bigfoot investigators were shocked over Memorial Day weekend when they found strange markings and hair on their pickup truck windows.” From Mark. Black supremacist Nation of Islam pushes white-dominated Scientology – From the Southern Poverty Law Center, “Although both the Nation of Islam and Scientology embrace extraterrestrial…
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Skepchick Quickies 6.16
Why the best kids books are written in blood – The author of “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” on why it’s okay and important for young adult fiction to have dark themes. The sexual objectification spillover effect – “Even if a woman dresses modestly, to an extent, she is likely to be perceived more negatively (on average)…
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