My schedule at TAM2013…
TAM2013: Come hear a panel of skeptic bloggers talk about (surprise!) skeptic blogging.
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TAM2013: Come hear a panel of skeptic bloggers talk about (surprise!) skeptic blogging.
Read MoreIf you aren’t careful, all of your “blank” water might mysteriously turn into “medicine”. Which you couldn’t tell apart from water, but never mind that.
Read MoreIt’s important to manage oyster fisheries “in a manner that would please, praise and glorify that one who provided and gave man the power to rule over the fish (including oysters)”. Apparently.
Read MoreDennett’s new book “Intuition pumps” contains many useful tips for improving our thinking, including using Rapoport’s rules as the “best antidote for the tendency to caricature one’s opponent”.
Read MoreThe National Institutes of Mental Health – the largest research organisation devoted to studying mental health – has decided that patients deserve better than to be diagnosed according to DSM V, typically regarded as the “Bible” of psychiatry.
Read MorePZ Myers’s “divorce” from skepticism highlights how we sometimes forget how trivial our disagreements – and the actors in those disagreements – are. All these blogs, quabbles, rifts and so forth are sometimes operating in some crude filter-bubbles, where we can become sanctimonious, defiant, and so stubborn that we’re unable to see our own errors.
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