Quickies
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Skepchick Quickies 5.10
Zombie Marie Curie on women scientists – My new favorite xkcd strip. From Michael. Simpson’s actress stirs up Springfield with school program linked to Scientology – The voice of Bart Simpson has created a school program called “Good Choices” based on L. Ron Hubbard’s “The Way to Happiness.” Washington Post Express article on learning homeopathy – From a reader who…
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Skepchick Quickies, 5.9
Climate e-mail reviews ‘leave science sound’ (From Appleman.) Sorry – turns out you can’t get drunk from soaking your feet in vodka. From science blogging in theory and practice: Students and pseudo-scientific beliefs Why geek girls shall inherit the earth.
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Skepchick Quickies 5.6
Girls face down Islamic traditions with basketball, in India – “In the world’s biggest democracy, there are no laws preventing women from playing sports, but as with customs about marriage dowries, which remain prevalent even though they’ve been illegal for a half century, traditions here have a grip on the local community that are as strong as any legislation.” Anti-vaxxer…
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Skepchick Quickies 5.5
Fox affiliate: Is Glee turning our kids gay? – Here’s a good headdesk to start your day with. From Angela. Newark’s prayer-based crime fighting system not working – From Paul who summarizes, “Pray for Newark tries to “pray down” crime; murder rate goes up 70%” The sad reason we reason – Are humans prone to confirmation bias because we are…
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Skepchick Quickies, 5.4
Despite rapid growth, India lets its girls die: “Discrimination happens through abortions of female fetuses and sheer neglect of young girls, despite years of campaigns to address the issue.” (From scribe999.) Acupuncture needle found in ex-South Korea president’s lung. Jim contributes: “Doing it wrong, Acupuncture edition.” Bin Laden’s death proves creationism. Um, okay. (From Mike.) The 12 worst (and most…
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Skepchick Quickies 5.3
How do you ID a dead Osama anyway? – DNA analysis: quicker than you think! Though still not as quick as a commercial break, like on CSI. Why do Americans still dislike atheists? – “Surveys find that most Americans refuse or are reluctant to marry or vote for nontheists; in other words, nonbelievers are one minority still commonly denied in…
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Skepchick Quickies, 5.2
What vaccine refusal really costs. (From cerberus40.) Catholic bishops target sex ed website: ”The four Catholic bishops in Massachusetts are calling on the state to eliminate funding for a sexual education website for teens that critics say uses graphic language to describe sex acts and downplays the physical and emotional risks of abortion.” (From Buzz Parsec.) A lesbian muslim’s father…
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Skepchick Quickies 4.29
You’re not as kinky as you think – “Massive Internet study finds we’re all sexual deviants.” Well, it was an Internet study, and as we all know, the Internet is for porn. From Mark. Well educated ladies don’t want to marry uneducated men -And this will bring about the end of civilization, obviously. Dentists medicalizing the tooth experience – Brilliant…
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