I thought I'd respond to this too, ... A good scientist does not claim to have "all the answers." Rather, a good scientist is *seeking* all the correct answers...
The following sounds like a great show. Hopefully it can get good ... ON TONIGHT! - Critical Eye (8:00pm Eastern - Check you local listings) Dear CSICOP List...
First of all, the "Skepticed" email list is about getting the skeptical message out to young people: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skepticed The first agenda...
Marcello Truzzi helped get CSICOP founded but split with them as it turned out he thought the group should be proving the paranormal exists. I got the...
People, sorry - this list has been rather slow the last number of weeks. I went to the Randi "Amazing Meeting" in Florida last month - it was a great time (and...
Hi, I happened to find this Yahoo Groups by chance really. I was searching on google.com and surfed on in... Anyway, there was a special on Fox about how they...
Hi all A new video about water divining (dowsing) is now available from Australian Skeptics. The Great Water Divining Video (PAL and NTCS)is a fascinating look...
See the Bagdad/Bombay connection, Comments welcome, Brian; http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~muehleb9 See also comletely new research presented in : Hitler's Secret...
People, If you check out: http://www.uri-geller.com/jewish/week.htm you will see former magician, Uri Geller, joining forces with the Orgonomists. Orgonomy...
It could be good to save a link to: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jimmy13/AwardList.html It is a list of the different prizes like Randi's for proof of the...
We all know what pseudoscience looks like. Uri Geller, Erik von Daniken, Breatharianism, Ex-Gay ministries, and Scientology. And we all know what skepticism...
The Discovery Science Channel is a digital channel. Most of us with the "Big Ugly Dish" do not receive digital channels. The program, therefore has a limited...
How we communicate about weird things ? Or: If you manage to do this with "Daniel Caldwell" you can do it with anyone. For those who want to practice what they...
Hello, My name is Jordan Rich. I am interested in what the relevation by Ray Wallace's family after his death of the fact that his "discovery" of Bigfoot was...
I'm having a hard time with this type of argument for the reason that there are times that it is very obvious that one thing occured after another in a causal...
... You do have to do a controlled scientific study to *prove* it, however. Something "obvious" like this is a good start for deciding to design a scientific...
Your arguments are subject to "post hoc analysis" fallacy; or "anecdotal evidence" fitting an explanation of an event by other events proceeding it. It's the...
... That reminds me of something. I had an argument with an acquaintance once about the nature of magic -- he was a self-professed "warlock" and was convinced...
... That reminds me of something. I had an argument with an acquaintance once about the nature of magic -- he was a self-professed "warlock" and was convinced...
The incident you describe is the logical fallacy known as "argument from ignorance" - i.e. we don't know what causes A: so it must be caused by B (insert your...
Greetings, fellow seekers of knowledge! I have three announcements to make: 1) The NASA re-launch pending 2) Whale Watch Cruise 3) MeetUp Meetings Details...
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AstroDeep/7 visible cosmic network of deep sky filaments ("Murray mesh") as redshifted hard gamma radiation from macroscopic...
Hi, I'm a recently retired molecular biologist, mostly doing genetic engineering funded by the pharmaceutical industry - Merck (lipitor - like drug), Eli Lily/...
