JREF Media Roundup, December 30, 2011
Updated: 2011-12-30 21:03:19
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The Pseudo Scientists — Episode 35 Richard, James and Jason discuss Christmas, Australian high school science education, new measures by the government to boost vaccination rates, and anti-vaccination exposure at the Woodford Folk Festival. Plus, Jack interviews rationalist singer-songwriter Shelley Segal, whose debut LP “An Atheist Album” was released in November. — You can purchase [...]
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Based upon my recent blog post concerning using mythology as a critical thinking tool for children, I was interviewed a few days ago by my skeptical colleague Kylie Sturgess of the Token Skeptic podcast. In the interview we discussed a variety of topics related to this issue, with a touch of fun thrown in for [...]
As featured on the fabulous JREF Swift blog! The book is now available to download, as well as purchase in e-book form! Skeptical Blog Anthology — E-Book Format. The Skeptical Blog Anthology features essays by: Dr Phillip Plait of “Bad Astronomy”, Dr Karen Stollznow of the Point of Inquiry Podcast, Sharon Hill, Dr Petra Boynton, [...]
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I just wanted to take a few minutes to pass along to you a fundraising campaign from the James Randi Educational Foundation’s “Season of Reason 2011″. The poster boy for this campaign is none other than James Randi himself, because do you know any other skeptic who looks more like Santa? See for yourself… [...]
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As a fun way of sharing some skepticism of “miraculous vision” claims, I wanted to share with you a really funny YouTube a friend sent me. It pokes fun at the phenomenon of pareidolia, wherein people claim to see all manner of wild things – Jesus, the Virgin Mary, aliens, Michael Jackson, etc – in [...]