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Skeptic Summary #12
By The Staff
Posted on: 10/29/2004
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Voting, balancing, explaining, debating, offending, politicking, flaming and more!
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Week ending October 29, 2004 (Vol 1, #12)
Welcome to the Skeptic Summary, a quick week-in-review guide to the Skeptic Friends Network and the rest of the skeptical world.
Special Announcement:VOTE!
If you are an eligible U.S. citizen, we’d like to remind you to vote. Vote early, vote by absentee ballot, or go to your polling station on Tuesday, November 2nd, but just be sure to vote. Forum Highlights:About the Fairness Doctrine - Balance stripped from the airwaves leads to what?
Atheist Holiday - A good example of a truly thorough explanation.
Debunking of Jimi’s points - The first rebuttal in the debate has been posted.
Non-skeptics would be shocked… - Avoiding the impression of religious favoritism taken one step too far.
Editor’s Choice: Be Afraid… Be Very Afraid - Includes some visits from the incomparable Jerry Don Bauer, who misses the point of the politics. Kil’s Evil Pick:George W Bush is the Antichrist - Happy Halloween… New Members this Week:buckyball
Happy
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(Not a member? Become one today!) Top Ten Search Engine Referral Phrases This Week:- skeptic friends
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Elsewhere in the World:New Images of Titan Baffle Astronomers
The Origins of The Curse of the Bambino
State Your Case
What’s New by Bob Park
Got some skeptic news items? Send them to us, and we’ll think about adding them. Book of the Week:Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century, by Lauren Slater
“Through nine examples of ingenious experiments by some of psychology’s most innovative thinkers, Slater traces the evolution of the century’s most pressing concerns — free will, authoritarianism, conformity, and morality. Previously described only in academic journals and textbooks, these often daring experiments have never before been narrated as stories, chock-full of plot, wit, personality, and theme.”
— Book Description
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