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Psychic Medium Asks For a Link From Skepchick (Sure Thing!)
I’m being lazy today and x-posting at Skepchick, Boston Skeptics, and the SGU Blog. I’ve had a rough morning, so I’m allowed. First of all, thanks to everyone who came out to Boston Skeptics in the Pub last night! We had about 70 people packed into Tommy Doyle’s top floor to hear Sam Moulton talk about Twins, Telepathy, and Smut.…
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Idiots Pretend to Do Science, Get Fooled by Magician
I know many of you reading this are working scientists, and so of course you’re familiar with the famed medical journal, International Journal of Yoga. For those of you who don’t subscribe, you’ll be excited to learn that IJOY has just published this solid, peer-reviewed paper called Investigating paranormal phenomena: Functional brain imaging of telepathy. Better yet, it’s available online!…
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Gullibility is the New Black
First of all, here’s a small update from Moe at Jezebel concerning the women you’re helping flee Basra. $1700 raised so far. Way to go, all of you who donated! Okay, on to today’s rantiness. NPR has a show called Day to Day, and they occasionally feature stories from teens at Youth Radio in a special segment called What’s the…
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An astrologer, Hitler, and MI5
How’s that for a headline? Today, the National Archives released MI5 documents showing how Britain hired a flamboyant, cross-dressing German astrologer named Louis De Wahl in an attempt to exploit what they suspected was a weakness of Hitler’s — a belief in the paranormal. At first, I thought that sounded pretty cool. If Hitler believed in astrology, a “psychic” who…
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TAM 6 Registration is Now Open!
You know what to do, people — log on, register for The Amaz!ng Meeting 6, fly to Vegas and party with 1,000 of your closest skeptical friends, including me and a number of Skepchicks (I’ll post the full list once I know for sure). There are also all my old buddies like Phil Plait, Steve Novella (and the rest of…
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About Skeptical Activism and Cheating Psychics
So, as I just posted over on the SGU Blog, my thinky meats are still mushy from TAM5.5, so I’m letting an SGU listener have the floor. I got this note while I was in Florida, and was so ridiculously pleased that I shared the story with the 50 people in our podcasting & blogging seminar Friday as an example…
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TAM 5.5 Update: Chris Cordero is a no-show
Chris Cordero, purported psychic, previously agreed to demonstrate his powers and try for the million dollar challenge in front of a live audience here at TAM 5.5. Jeff Wagg has just announced that Chris called last night and canceled, saying “he had bills to pay.” Aw. Wouldn’t a million dollars be really useful for paying bills? PS: I now have…
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