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Skeptic Summary #202

Not-so-free markets, scholarly Googling, Obama's second, a Bigfoot let-down, didja know and more!

Free markets? - Do online RPGs count?

Google Scholar, always hard to use - It’s like you need to be a scholar, or something.

Obama/Biden 2008 - This election is slowly turning into Lethal Weapon.

Editor’s Choice: Yeti myth alive and well - Who coulda thunk it’d turn out like it did?

Did You Know? - Once again I have chosen a video. It’s a very entertaining collage of facts about the increasing rate of technological advances that are happening, with a few other interesting facts thrown in.

And no, I did not check all of the facts before choosing the video as my pick. It seems to me that if you are actually motivated enough to check the presentation for accuracy, I have done my job and then some!

By the way, my ex-wife sent the video link to me. I take her word on most things…

SkeptiQuote: Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. — Isaac Asimov

Sunday: Our Sunday chat host is on vacation.

Wednesday: Chat started off with news of Kil passing a stress test as he gets ready for surgery. Unfortunately, he celebrated by eating a Fatburger. Perhaps not the wisest decision, but at least his heart is in the right place. chefcrsh also announced his new series of cooking videos, which may be found on his YouTube page. After chefcrsh left, it was mostly staff chat. Our recent polls, site statistics, and a top secret thing I’m not allowed to talk about. Then talk about the future with different site features, a possible change to the Summary, and new poll ideas. Somewhere in the midst of all this was framing atheism.

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Flickering Fallacy: The Myth of Compact Florescent Light Bulb Headaches

Healthy mind, healthy body

Report on the Sixth International Conference on Creationism, Part One

Report on the Sixth International Conference on Creationism, Part Two

What year is it, anyway?

What’s New by Bob Park

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The March of Unreason: Science, Democracy, and the New Fundamentalism, by Dick Taverne.



“In The March of Unreason, Dick Taverne expresses his concern that irrationality is on the rise in Western society, and argues that public opinion is increasingly dominated by unreflecting prejudice and an unwillingness to engage with factual evidence. Discussing topics such as genetically modified crops and foods, organic farming, the MMR vaccine, environmentalism, the precautionary principle, and the new anti-capitalist and anti-globalization movements, he argues that the rejection of the evidence-based approach nurtures a culture of suspicion, distrust, and cynicism, and leads to dogmatic assertion and intolerance. Science, with all the benefits it brings, is an essential part of a civilized and democratic society: it offers the most hopeful future for humankind.”

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