A sad episode of scientific self-censorship is reported in the 25-11-01 *Observer* (http:/www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,605798,00.html). A ...
People, My guess is that 2002 will continue the trend of higher percentages of people believing in paranormal claims. My skeptical web site from phact.org is...
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I recently read about an astrologer who was asked to write horoscopes for 12 unidentified people, meet those 12 people, and then guess which was which. The...
Hi, I'm not a statistician, but maybe this will help. Run Prob1 from a command shell. Source code is included. Richard Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 06:54:21 -0000 ...
Thomas, actually some paranormalists have tried to get credit for "reverse hits" when they appear to get far below normal chance. It utterly amazes me that so...
Hi, In many probability problems, it's easier to calculate the odds of an event NOT happening, and subtracting from 1: The probability of an astrologer...
... The above statement is correct, but... ... I believe that this one is not. These guesses are not truly independent since you don't have 12 to choose from...
Ed, Thanks for pointing this out - I gave the right answer to the wrong problem... Since I'm too lazy to dig out my probability textbook, I wrote a quick and ...
Rony: I received this version, even though you got a return to sender on it. Hmm. Well, in any case, the number your sequence is going towards is probably1/e....
From Australian Skeptics Win a copy of the Great Skeptic CD + t-shirt + coffee mug! (see: http://www.skeptics.com.au/features/news/greatcd.htm ) All you have...
Here is a neat article from Time Magazine: Debunking Seeing Without Sight A Russian girl accepts James Randi's $1 million challenge to prove she has paranormal...
First I wish to share some websitesThen the present Arab controversy. Oh yes, one more thing: Do you think we(the poor and middle class) owe the rich control...
FYI: The latest *This American Life*, on the theme of "someone who enters your life and changes everything," devotes about the first half to a family whose ...
People, This list has been rather slow. It is great for skeptics to get involved in your local group. I encourage people to look up their nearest local group...
The Times of India wrote that Robertson Medical Institute and Ayurveda Ratna Gopalji Agarwal on Tuesday said he had deciphered the much-elusive Indus script...
... Wow -- I didn't realize that world history books had genes in the first place. Nathan Shumate Cold Fusion Video Reviews http://www.coldfusionvideo.com...
Tom Marrow's (1999) review of "Forbidden Archeology's Impact" and Wade Tarzia's (1999) "Cheering with the Enemy, or Boosting Your Mileage with the Best from...
To be testifiable and falsifiable a hypothesis must describe an event which is observable, and reproducible. Mainstream anthropology conjectures hypothesis...
In a message dated 8/8/02 7:40:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, sididly@... ... I agree totally with this opinion. True skepticism does not support the ...
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... Incorrect. The problem with most supernatural explanations is that they are either non-evidentiary (like how most miracle-workers can't perform under...
Dear Brian: Are you trying to throw me into a mental institution? Just kidding. :) I don't champion the idea that the fringe is most likely the best...
Dear Nathan: You have some valid points worth considering. My point on testifiable, and falsifiable. Reproduce macroevolution in a laboratory, under the ...
Sidney Hagen: Appealing to the number of people that are in mainstream thought doesn't logically validate mainstream thought. Brian: Oke let us discuss some...
