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  • Meta Stuff

    ICYMI: February 10 – February 16 on the Skepchick Network

    It’s a very exciting day inside this week’s ICYMI post. If you’ll notice, we have a new edition to the Skepchick family. It’s Skepchick.no, blog-casting from Norway straight into your computer! Go show them some love, won’t you? Teen Skepchick What is Glass? Is glass a liquid or a solid? Or something else entirely? Genetically Modified Salmon: Food or “Frakenfish?”…

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  • Skepticism

    ICYMI: July 22-July 28 on the Skepchick Network

    You guys, I have Olympic Fever! It’s time every four years when I pretend to care about cycling and beach volleyball! Go team! Score all the sports points! Insert otherwise totally inappropriate patriotic slogan here! Maybe in between pole vaults and pommel horses you could catch up on what happened last week on the Skepchick Network. Teen Skepchick A Fracturing…

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  • Science

    Cochineal Taxonomy Fail

    Alas, Starbucks has backpedaled and decided to remove cochineal from all its food and drink products. This is a shame, since as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, cochineal is an insect-derived dye that provides an important source of cash for a lot of rural Central and South American people. There is also evidence the culture and sale of cochineal leads…

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  • Science

    Ask Surly Amy: GMO’s and Superbugs

    Dear Amy, As a proud skeptic I have always defended GM foods as a necessary and wonderful lifesaving measure. However, I recently found a study online about how the corn rootworm has developed a resistance to the GM pesticides and fears of ‘superbugs’ evolving are echoing across the net. I am always willing to change my mind in the face…

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  • Skepticism

    Ask Surly Amy: Scared of a Potato

    Hi, I wrote a really long mail first, deleted it and did the same thing all over. So I want to make this short so I’ll actually send it. I’m in a bad mental place right now and I really need someone to rationalize for me why following exclusively the diet promoted on here is not such a great idea…

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  • Random Asidesants

    How to make sure you are never invited to a potluck again. EVER.

    Ah, the Holidays. The season when introverted curmudgeons like me….are fairly miserable and awkward, actually.  I’m not good enough at small talk to do well at holiday gatherings: “What are you doing for Christmas?” “Um….lamenting the over-commercialization of your imaginary savior dude’s birth? And avoiding my family?” Over the years, I’ve perfected a way to free myself from the stress of…

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  • Science

    Honey Laundering

    You might have seen some news coverage recently that claimed much of the honey sold in the US isn’t actually… honey. So what is it, then? Well, it IS still honey, and it did still come from bees. But it’s been treated and filtered to a point that it no longer meets the standard of what is properly called honey…

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  • Science

    Ask Surly Amy: Vegan, Vegetarian and Pescatarian Diets

    Dear Surly Amy, I’m trying to find non-biased sources on health, longevity, etc, related to Vegan/Vegetarian/Pescetarian diets, but am having an incredibly hard time finding any article online that isn’t teeming with bias (Vegan websites are super biased, btw). What are the health facts, pure and simple? ~Patrice Dear Patrice, Unfortunately the health facts aren’t pure and simple. Different people…

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