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Why Skepticism about Global Warming?
2008-04-06 16:14:00 Why Skepticism about Global Warming?: In which I try to understand why so many people think global warming is some kind of conspiracy.
Finding Wholesale Video Games Distributors Without Skepticism!
2008-03-18 03:31:00 Have you been searching for wholesale video games distributors online? Hundreds of results show up video games distributors that are actually only listed on the internet but fail to provide reliable services. If you search the internet for the wholesale video games distributors, you may end up with endless list of video games distributors that may actually not be available at all anymore. There
Skepticism
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Skepticism About Homeopathy: Can’t We Just Ignore the Skeptics?
2008-01-29 21:20:00 Homeopathy is the bad boy of healing systems. Over 200 years after its inception it continues to generate controversy, and being skeptical about homeopathy is far more popular than simply accepting it as is. It is not surprising, therefore, that possibly the most popular article on this blog has been Is Homeopathic Medicine the “Enemy of Reason”? (see also the comments that follow it), where I offered an example of the media’s sensationalization of the alleged scientific implausibility and irrationality of homeopathy. Why be skeptical about homeopathy in a homeopathic blog? There are four main reasons for being interested in the skeptical perspective on homeopathy: Perhaps the skeptics will turn out to be correct: homeopathy is all a big lie, and I shouldn’t be wasting my life and your time. More soberly, engaging with the skeptical arguments against homeopathy helps one in developing a balanced, well-reasoned perspective on the subject: while skeptics...
By: Homeopathy Zone
Annapolis raises tensions between Iran, Syria, skepticism in Arab ... - Int
2007-11-27 20:02:00 Canada.comAnnapolis raises tensions between Iran, Syria, skepticism in Arab ...International Herald Tribune, France - 53 minutes agoThough there is widespread skepticism over the conference in the Arab world ? including from Syria ? Damascus made clear it has its own interests: better ...Livni: Arab world will not be involved in negotiations YnetnewsThe Israel-Palestine Conflict: Necessary World Efforts Prior to a ... Newropeans Magazineall 4,883 news articles
The sorry state of skepticism in St. Louis
2007-11-12 02:48:00 A colleague has notified me that I’m under indictment by a previously unknown blog calling itself the St. Louis Skeptical Society, a site that “was founded on October 11, 2007 by a handful of physics graduate students in order to promote skepticism and science.” These enterprising students have taken exception to my earlier thoughts on democracy in America, concluding that it’s “sloppy and unsupported,” among other things. Let me begin my humble defense by stating that I categorically share this organization’s stated goals - America could do with a great deal more skepticism and commitment to science (a point that I think is more than evident from my recent writings). However, as I think will shortly become clear, I’m not uniformly impressed with their analysis, tactics, or attention to nuance. Forgive me if my points are a bit disorganized, but I’m going to take these as they occur to me. 1: I wish my judges were less anonymous....
Boys, TV, and a Little Skepticism
2007-11-09 06:00:00 I know that when I post or link to new studies and reports about boys and development here, I often take a big ol' skeptic stance. This is not because I'm just trying to be difficult. Ok, it's not entirely because I'm just trying to be difficult. There is, however, some amount of evaluation and thought that goes into my decision to be difficult, primarily regarding how solid the research methodology was, how much it tallies with existing research, and (very importantly) how much it seems designed to advance a particular ideological agenda. People have no problem with being skeptical of researchers hired by tobacco companies claiming that smoking is harmles. They don't always extend that to other organizations that have an agenda to promote, but activist groups (no matter how worthy the cause) and ideology can promote questionable research as well. (Incidentally, "skeptic" is another one of those words that just looks weirder and weirder the more yo...
Hear Skepticism in Podcast
2007-11-06 04:38:00 Last June, I know I blogged about Skeptic.com, the Skeptics Society website containing educational articles and ideas regarding controversial issues, revolutionary ideas, extraordinary claims and simple promotion of science. I?ve always been a fan of the site that?s why I always go back for more and more readings. And though their official... [ This is a content summary only. Visit PinoyBlogoSphere.com for full links, other content, and more! ]
HEALTHY SKEPTICISM
2007-08-30 13:12:00 Hat tip to Learning2Share; cartoon by Ivan Brunetti; obviously after Ernie Bushmiller; source
Report Says Acomplia Still Must Overcome ?Skepticism About Its Side Effects
2007-08-24 18:12:00 An article set for publication in the respected journal, Nature Medicine, says that while Acomplia (rimonabant) may turn out to be the ?Prozac of obesity,? it still faces the challenge of overcoming ?skepticism about its side effects.? The article notes the troubled past of obesity drugs, ranging from misuse of amphetamines to the ?fen-phen debacle of ...
Report Says Acomplia Still Must Overcome ?Skepticism About Its Side Effects
2007-08-23 17:45:00 An article set for publication in the respected journal, Nature Medicine, says that while Acomplia (rimonabant) may turn out to be the ?Prozac of obesity,? it still faces the challenge of overcoming ?skepticism about its side effects.? The article notes the troubled past of obesity drugs, ranging from misuse of amphetamines to the ?fen-phen debacle of ...
Dawkins? Enemies Of Reason - Part 2 online
2007-08-22 21:22:00 This is the second of a two part documentary in which Richard Dawkins tackles the epidemic of irrational, and superstitious thinking. In this episode he looks at homeopathy in the National Health Service and faith healing. (Link) psychic, Richard Dawkins, skepticism
Authors@Google: James Randi
2007-08-18 00:03:00 Here’s another Authors@Google talk by James (The amazing) Randi. It’s always nice to see him in the media, he’s looking well and joking about his illness which is great to see. According to the video he’s now given up the scientific pursuit as to whether Santa Claus exists which is a great shame, but at ...
Dawkins? Enemies of Reason - Online
2007-08-16 03:38:00 This is the first of of a two part documentary in which Richard Dawkins tackles the epidemic of irrational, and superstitious thinking. The topics covered include astrology, crystal healing, dowsing and psychic ability. (Link) As an aside, for about 3 months i’ve been contacting psychics and astrologers asking them if they would be willing to appear ...
Richard Dawkins on Richard & Judy
2007-08-14 16:59:00 Richard Dawkins speaks to Richard and Judy about his new documentary, “The Enemies of Reason”. (LINK) Part one of the show was aired last night and part two is due next week. I’ll post more on it shortly and get some links up as soon as they become available. paranormal, Richard Dawkins, skepticism
The Adam and Eve story
2007-08-05 03:44:00 The Quran’s Adam & Eve story as we all know was shameless plagiarized from the Bible, which in turn was plagiarized from the Torah! What does this prove? Jews are the most innovative creative fiction writers and the rest are imitators! lol. Anyhow, here’s the Adam & Eve story in cartoon format: First there was ...
Carnival Alert
2007-08-02 10:21:00 The 66th Skeptics? Circle is now up at Denialism, and includes my article On Transcendental Meditation II: Ayurvedic Medicine.
By: A Load of Bright
On Transcendental Meditation II: Ayurvedic Medicine
2007-07-31 02:54:00 The Maharishi likes to have different fingers in different pies. He has tried to develop TM not just into a relaxation technique, but a way of life, with a rival TM version for all of your every-day needs. In this second article of the series, I will be looking at the Movement?s approach ...
By: A Load of Bright
How Do You Know That?
2007-07-06 08:12:00 Critical thinking is a complicated subject. You can study structures of arguments, syllogisms, logical fallacies, science, philosophy, epistemology and ontology, all in the name of improving your critical thinking skills. You can learn the difference between an inductive and a deductive argument, contrary and contradictory statements, and a properly constructed argument compared to ...
By: A Load of Bright
Skepticism on Climate Change
2007-07-04 19:25:00 It seems that in the domain of climate change, from a poll made by Ipsos Mori, that the majority of the public are more concerned with terrorism, anti-social behaviour and dog shit on the pavement than climate change. Out of these people that are sceptical the majority of them also believe that the whole global warming swindle is there to make money, and quite rightly so.The question is not whether global warming is man made or not, this debate seems to be getting old. Personally it is clear that this has been exaggerated because of the creation of an industry, and there is a lot of money being pumped into it. The questions should really be whether the adoption of a low carbon life style is really a bad thing or not. On the grounds of morality it would be unreasonable to falsely encourage consumers to fork out extra money for products that are supposedly going to stop global warming. If global warming is not man made then it there is no reason to reduce the carbon emissions. Basical...
By: SaF Publications
Humans think: Discover Skepticism
2007-06-29 05:44:00 All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike ? and yet it is the most precious thing we have. ?Albert Einstein For the open-minded, the site Skeptic - Extraordinary Claims, Revolutionary Ideas, and Promotion of Science is one of those websites worth your online reading time. Web content includes features articles,... [ This is a content summary only. Visit PinoyBlogoSphere.com for full links, other content, and more! ]
GOP Skepticism On Iraq Growing
2007-06-27 19:26:00 Anthony @ 18:25 BST Key Republican senators, signaling increasing GOP skepticism about President Bush’s strategy in Iraq, have called for a reduction in U.S. forces and launched preemptive efforts to counter a much-awaited administration progress report due in September. In an unannounced speech on the Senate floor Monday night, Sen. Richard G. Lugar (Ind.), the ranking Republican ...
By: Suzie-Q
My Recommended Reading
2007-06-20 00:50:00 I?ve always been fascinated by de-conversion stories. I couldn?t even estimate how many I?ve read, I really can?t get enough of them. I?ve always pestered my friend Ellis14 (author of Evanescent), who was raised as a Jehovah?s Witness to write his, but he?s always been reluctant. He has now finally written it, ...
By: A Load of Bright
Articles of Apostacy - Part 3: Exploring Muslim minds
2007-06-10 02:37:00 My name is Salahudin and this is the story of my experience with Islam: from being a born Muslim to an agnostic atheist.This article is a continuation from part 2. By this time I had openly declared my apostasy. And when I was forced to confront Muslims about my philosophical critiques against Islam, they intellectually squirmed ...
Wherein I Respond to a Thoughtful Critique
2007-06-07 14:42:00 Throughout the time I've been writing on this blog I've been fortunate not to have encountered any trolls lurking in my comments section. Instead, most comments from theists have been thoughtful and productive. Recently, I just received a extremely thoughtful comment from Jesse V. in response to my recent post concerning evidence. In that post, I was mostly concerned with evidence in the purely scientific sense. However, Jesse's argument is from the historical perspective, using the available sources concerning particular events. Luckily, I majored in history, so I feel more than up to the challenge of debating Jesse's points.Before getting into the history, Jesse says:For example, can you prove what word I said yesterday at 12:52pm? No, not by the scientific method. The best you can do is ask those who were around me, IF there was anyone around me. At that point you are relying on the testimony of witnesses, which is not perfect, since someone may have forgotten what I sa...
My experience with Islam - Part 1: My Islamic background
2007-06-06 09:38:00 My name is Salahudin and this is the story of my experience with Islam; from childhood as a born Muslim to an adult as an agnostic atheist. I was born in 1986 in Lahore, Pakistan. I come from what would be considered an “upper middle class” family with my parents being of a high skilled technical profession. ...
Real Estate TV shows should be viewed with skepticism
2007-06-04 05:12:00 Turns out “Flip This House” got flipped. One of the star flippers is nothing more than a con man who had his friends and family posing as buyers and who really didn’t fix or sell the houses he was shown to be flipping on Flip This House. Amazingly enough, the only episode I ever saw ...
Atheism - a unifying force!
2007-06-02 21:14:00 Agnostic Atheism is a blog of ex-Christians, pretty much like our own little blog here. You can even call their blog our “cousin site”. They have the same issues with Christianity as we have with Islam. Apart from the immense ideological similarities we share, we also have other interesting - tactical - similarities. For one thing their blog, ...
?Why The Gods are not winning?
2007-05-03 17:12:00 Excellent article explaining the ground realities of how religion (generally) is faring in the world today. (It’s faring rather poorly by the way, as my fellow Towelian Feeza wrote below! Three cheers!) Here’s an excerpt: “Disbelief now rivals the great faiths in numbers and influence. Never before has religion faced such enormous levels ...
Richard Dawkins on CNN
2007-05-02 00:00:00 In The Name Of Towelie, Richard Dawkins is hereby declared a Saint!!! Watch his interview on CNN as he demolishes the religiously motivated misinformation spread by those who hate atheists, agnostics and atheism. Notice that he talks along the lines of the Towelian article, “Who is more motivated to act on justice? The theist or non-theist?“
?Islamosapien? behavior
2007-05-01 07:54:00 For those of you not familiar with the term ?Islamosapien?, it?s a Towelie term used to describe fanatical anti-human behavior among some Muslims. Here are 10 ways to know that you are a ?Islamosapien? You refused to shake hands with a female human, and if by some rare event this happens, ...
NBC poll: Deep skepticism on Iraq
2007-04-26 00:54:00 WASHINGTON - As the Democrat-controlled Congress and the White House clash over an Iraq spending bill, with President Bush vowing to veto it because it contains withdrawal deadlines, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that a solid
By: Get rich
NBC poll: Deep skepticism on Iraq
2007-04-26 00:54:00 WASHINGTON - As the Democrat-controlled Congress and the White House clash over an Iraq spending bill, with President Bush vowing to veto it because it contains withdrawal deadlines, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that a solid
By: Get rich
The Human Slaughter House Formally Known As The Country Of Iraq
2007-04-25 05:41:00 If hell exists, its coordinates will coincide with Baghdad and surrounding areas, Iraq is the craziest place in the world today. What happened? How did 20 some years of torture from Saddam’s rule get worse to become this? In the hell formally known as Iraq, you will find a US army regrettably chasing their tails in the desert sands ...
?Biryani stinking? Muslims & ?cheeseburger wielding? Islamophobes
2007-04-25 00:14:00 There are established World-Views that stubbornly pervert reality to very parochial points of view. In Muslims it is a profoundly deep rooted inferiority complex which we Towelians shall henceforth call the “Biryani stinking” complex (More on this below!). We could have called it the “Falafel snorting” complex but in light of the extreme anti-Arabism going ...
The Masses vote in Damascus?
2007-04-24 06:53:00 Not really, But, in what should be called the deliberate mock of democracy, Syria held its second national ‘fake’ election since Hafez Assad?s death in 2002. Reuters reported that fewer than half of Syria?s 19 million people came to cast their vote. Now, we hope that these people came to cast their votes amidst this absurdity ...
Why worship God?
2007-04-22 01:12:00 I’ve never understood why theists (especially Muslims) worship God. If you’re a theist, then I implore you to come to my “rescue” and tell me why it is so important to worship God. Here are some reasons that might come to your mind, but they are unsatisfactory: “We must worship God because he is the creator.” I can’t see ...
FAQs about Agnosticism
2007-04-16 19:51:00 The following has been inspired by an article found here. The original article was written by the famous philosopher, Bertrand Russel. And by “inspired” we mean shamelessly plagiarized! Heh. But there was a need to edit it drastically for the sake of making it more up to date with the current times and to better formulate ...
Random Agnostic reflections.
2007-04-16 18:22:00 While watching a National Geographic program few days ago, I touched on and suddenly grasped a strange concept of REAL reality.It sobered me completely.Not that I wasn’t aware of the history of the planet Earth that tells us of how the several continents of the earth were made,of how they come together and then ...
Less Despair, but More Skepticism
2007-03-16 21:50:00 My most recent post on the Cardinals‘ prospects this season has generated a fair amount of hate mail. Most of it was focused around my claim that Walt Jocketty “allowed the Cardinals to bleed talent when they desperately needed to add it”. The “talent” the Cardinals lost this winter was pitching talent — namely Jeff Weaver, Jeff Suppan, and Jason Marquis. You might assume that I was suggesting that Jocketty needed to do more to replace that pitching talent, but in fact that isn’t really the case. I’m pretty comfortable with not paying the markup for pitching this winter, and I’m pretty comfortable with how their rotation is shaking out. In fact PECOTA projects the Cardinals to allow the second-fewest runs in the National League, behind only the Padres, who have their huge park working for them. The pitching is fine. But I think Jocketty desperately needed to add some offense. Here’s the thing. If you’re going to go wi...
By: The RotoFeed
Skepticism & Despair: St. Louis Cardinals
2007-03-16 08:47:00 So now the word is out that two-thirds of the Cardinals‘ starting outfield — Jim Edmonds and Juan Encarnacion — is likely to begin the season on the DL. I don’t want to make too much of this. Neither player is expected to be out for all that long, though you have to wonder about Edmonds, who is recovering from two separate injuries (shoulder, foot), is 37 years old, and is no stranger to the Disabled List. Still, these injuries are going to expose just how top-heavy the Cardinals are. The story I linked to above suggests that the Opening Day outfield might be Chris Duncan in left, Preston Wilson in center, and Scott Spiezio in right, which is not only a below-average offensive trio but might be the worst defensive outfield since the 1997 Oakland A’s. I don’t know whether injuries tend to snowball, but I do know they’re a bigger problem when neither your bench nor your farm system is ready to produce adequate replacements. From my point of vi...
By: The RotoFeed
Red, Green, and Blue: A Case for Ethanol Skepticism
2007-03-13 15:36:00 I am a liberal, and I have a confession to make: I don't like it when the government throws my money away, either. It's hard to admit, but it's just another one of those inconvenient truths. It's also exactly what I think is happening with the at least $5 billion in ethanol subsidies the federal government will hand out this year. Now don't get me wrong: it's not farm subsidies and certainly not alternative fuel subsidies that I have a problem with. I just think that the government should encourage farmers to grow (organic and sustainable) food, not fuel. It should also support those alternative fuels and technologies that provide a demonstrable measure of increased efficiency and decreased reliance on fossil fuels. Ethanol does neither. You may recall hearing about a report by UC Berkeley geoengineering professor Tad Patzek and Cornell ecology professor David Pimentel that concluded that it takes more energy to make ethanol than the finished ethanol actually...
By: Green Options
Pro-Life Vs. Pro-Choice Logic: Skepticism
2007-01-24 14:54:01 One of the popular arguments made by those who are supporters of a woman’s “right to choose” is the fact that we don’t know for sure whether or not the fetus is a living human person. Many Christians find this argument to be simply repulsive. The pro-lifer says “How can anyone say that it is not a life? It’s displaying characteristics of life from the very beginning of conception! And if the embryo was made by two humans, then it logically follows that this is human life.” The pro-choicer responds, “But we cannot know for sure that it is a human life. It is only a blob of cells at conception, and until the fetus grows a brain, it can’t even feel anything. Unless their’s proof that it’s a human being at conception, then there is nothing wrong with abortion.” I hate to admit it, but those that are on the pro-choice side of the battle lines are right. They are not correct that abortion is not morally repre...
By: Fanatholic
A Healthy Skepticism Is Not
2006-12-02 16:28:01 As often as I'm right, I'm also wrong. And here's where I'm going to unburden myself.A long time ago, I lived in a different city and subscribed to Newsweek (which I still get) and Newsweek at the time was very big on the "Internet," which I put in quotes there because it was still new. And I SCOFFED. I thought it was ridiculous. I thought, and I frequently said, that the "Internet" would never amount to anything.You know, by the fact that I'm blogging this (along with my horror stories, myspace page, music downloads, t-shirts, and publisher) that I was wrong and that the Internet has not only stuck around, it has totally taken over my life. And maybe yours, if you're reading this, since it's only available over the Web. It's not just my free time, either. I get my news, entertainment, music, everything, really, from the internet. I use it to look up house and car values for clients, for legal research, to find experts. I use it now to find phone numbers because I'm too laz... |
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