This week on the “Virtual Skeptics”…
- Bob avoids taking sides in a cripple fight;
- Eve warns against taking medical advice from doctors who aren’t toilet trained;
- Sharon reminds us that animals don’t want to help, they mostly just want to eat
- and Tim is currently fixing technical problems… Dog bless ‘im.
The panel:
- Raptured!
- Eve Siebert – Editor and blogger at Skeptical Humanities
- Bob Blaskiewicz – Committee for Skeptical Inquiry’s Conspiracy Guy web columnist, JREF Swift Blog contributor, and blogger for Skeptical Humanities
- Sharon Hill – Editor of Doubtful News and author of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry’s Sounds Sciencey web column
- Tim Farley – JREF Fellow, creator of whatstheharm.net and skeptools.com
BOB’S LINKS
EVE’S LINKS
- Video of child “doctor”
- “Three-Year Old Cambodian Boy Revered as Healer,” Signs of the Times
- “Hundreds flock to 3-year-old healer in Cambodian village,” Doubtful News
- Ronald Finucane, Miracles and Pilgrims
SHARON’S LINKS
- Cat survives suitcase trip
- Dog guards master’s grave
- Saved by shark tale
- Crows can reason
- Greyfriars Bobby just a publicity stunt
TIM’S LINKS
- Unsourced.org finds the sources of statistics & science in news articles
- Blog post on Unsourced and The Papers Behind gives more details.
- Mike Adams is going berserk about Web of Trust, calls it censorship and engages in grey-hat SEO
- Blog post on the procedure to report suspicious emails is here.
MORE LINKS
- Uwingu-A New Way to Fund Space Exploration, Research, and Education Please check it out and help them towards their goal.
Chase Giving campaign for secular charities. (Deadline has passed)- Bob has a new Conspiracy Guy article out at the CSI website
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That picture was taken right before Eve stabbed me in the face. #FacePain
RJB
Reblogged this on Skeptical Humanities and commented:
Go visit our our little web show at Virtual Skeptics! We were hilarious.
Interesting how you mentioned rbutr in relation to the Churnalism subject. I have been in contact with the organiser of the Centre for Inquiry’s one day conference on “JOURNALISM, CHURNALISM AND MEDIA BIAS” and will be giving a short 20 minutes presentation about rbutr there.
Nice! I hadn’t heard about that conference.
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