Check out the Seventh Skeptics Circle here.
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I know we all were told that the seventh Harry Potter book was the last one, but it appears that this is not true! JK Rowling has written yet another book, entitled The Tales of Beedle the Bard.
Take a group of seventh graders and ask them to draw pictures of and describe scientists: as you might expect, you get a bunch of pictures of lab coats and adjectives like "dorky".
A couple of weeks ago I made what I thought to be a rather obvious observation, namely that the anti-vaccine crank blog Age of Autism is anti-vaccine, not, as it claims, pro-safe vaccine.
Great stuff, thanks for sharing. I almost fell out of my chair laughing at the astrologer suing NASA for interfering with comets.
Wonderful - I'm bookmarking that sceptic circle site. I liked the one about the image of the Virgin Mary appearing in salt stains under a bridge in Chicago. It reminded me of the fence post at Coogee Beach in Sydney that people believed was an apparition - I had to go see that for myself to believe it (not believe the apparition, but believe there were literally hundreds of people kneeling and praying to a fencepost).
Ah yes, the Holy Fencepost of Coogee. I took a picture. Can you spot the Virgin Mary?
Ah, ye of little faith! How do you explain that after the Virgin of the Underpass was defaced by a vandal (who wrote "Big Lie" over it in shoe polish), and then painted over by state workers, she magically reappeared due to the efforts of two car wash employees and some solvent?
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Seriously, I am not bothered by such harmless expressions of faith.
What bothers me is how mainstream this kind of insanity is in the US: Darwin on trial: Evolution hearings open in Kansas.