Category Archives: skeptic

Debunking nonsense à la first-grader

As a post script to my previous post about debunking nonsense “science”, here is a remarkable story hot off the blog roll. Blue Lab Coats is retelling the story of how her 6-year old daughter straightened out her class in … Continue reading

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Preposterous mind-shrinking falsehood

One would not want to meet this in a dark alley late at night? “A vindictive, bloodthirsty, ethnic cleanser, a misogynistic homophobic racist, infanticidal genocidal filicidal pestilential megalomaniac sadomasochistic capriciously malevolent bully. “ George Stoumboulopoulos of The Hour recently interviewed … Continue reading

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Where did all the skeptics go?

The Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) hoax has been around for a while and people seem to get away with it all the time. In my statistics class I used this as an example of the pitfalls of the lack of critical … Continue reading

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