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What the hell is rolfing?
I thought it was some combination of roller-blading and golfing, but what do I know? Anyway, I came across it at work and wondered what exactly it was. I sort of knew it was related to New Age-y...
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Skeptic on the PEER Grand Canyon claims
A lesson in being skeptical of things that confirm your biases.
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Oh, for fuck's sake
David Lynch, whose movies I enjoy quite a bit, spouts debunked New Age nonsense in the Independent: Indy: You’re talking about Transcendental Meditation? Lynch: Yes. Transcendental Meditation is a...
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Quick comments
1. Greatest award ever? The Ig Nobel for linguistics for this year: Linguistics – A University of Barcelona team for showing that rats are unable to tell the difference between a person speaking...
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People are weird
Apparently there are weird lights in Texas. Not all that weird, but then there’s this person, who posits that since they appear to be spinning, the Air Force could be experimenting with time travel....
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Like cures like
I keep seeing ads for Zicam on TV. Zicam is a homeopathic cold remedy that, unlike most homeopathic remedies, has progressed beyond anti-modern medicine hippiedom and found a marketing department....
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Credulity is fun
This is completely insane. A psychic told an “educational assistant” that a student with a name starting with ‘V’ was being abused by young male. That forced the school to inform the authorities, who...
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A point for the vegans
I meant to post about this last week. A study about sausage preferences: People who scored high on “social authority” – they believed it was important to support people in power – tended to label the...
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My ghost tour experience
DISCLAIMER: This review is a commentary on the tour from the perspective of a skeptic. If you believe in ghosts, don’t have a strong opinion about them, or are just looking to be entertained, your...
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