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		<title>An Interview with Don Prothero</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/06/29/an-interview-with-don-prothero/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2016 12:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Don Prothero]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ikonokast interviews Don Prothero. Don Prothero is the author of just over 30 books and a gazillion scientific papers covering a wide range of topics in paleontology and skepticism. Mike Haubrich and I spoke with Don about most of these topics, including the recent history of the skeptics movement, the conflict and potentials between DNA &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/06/29/an-interview-with-don-prothero/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">An Interview with Don Prothero</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Truth or Truthiness: How does a thoughtful skeptic distinguish?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/01/13/truth-or-truthiness-how-does-a-thoughtful-skeptic-distinguish/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2016 16:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Book review]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Truth or Truthiness: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction by Learning to Think Like a Data Scientist is a new book by Howard Wainer that can serve as a manual for how to be a good skeptic. Wainer is a statistician, formerly with the famous Educational Testing Service, and a professor at the Wharton School of the &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2016/01/13/truth-or-truthiness-how-does-a-thoughtful-skeptic-distinguish/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Truth or Truthiness: How does a thoughtful skeptic distinguish?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Recovery of Arctic Sea Ice</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/08/15/the-recovery-of-arctic-sea-ice/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[arctic sea ice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arctic Sea Ice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denialists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lies and Denial]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every northern summer Arctic Sea ice melts away and reforms for winter, but how much melts away seems to be increasing on average, at a rate that surprises climate scientists. But there are some who see variation from year to year, and there is variation, in a rather unrealistic way. Here is a graph comparing &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/08/15/the-recovery-of-arctic-sea-ice/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Recovery of Arctic Sea Ice</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Global Warming Skepticism In Decline</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/04/09/global-warming-skepticism-in-decline/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gallup poll]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[skepticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skepticism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is a new Gallup poll that together with earlier data from Gallup provides some interesting information about attitudes in the US about global warming. Earlier polls have shown increase and decrease in concern about global warming, and changes in what people think of news about climate change and the severity of the problem. Recently, &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/04/09/global-warming-skepticism-in-decline/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Global Warming Skepticism In Decline</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>What does sexism and harassment feel like to you?</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/05/what-does-sexism-and-harassment-feel-like-to-you/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rebecca Watson]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m a guy who “gets” nasty threats from haters. I receive anti-atheist threats and icky comments, I receive a LOT of nasty stuff from climate science denialists (and that often comes along with bogus threats of law suits), I receive nasty emails and tweets from the sexist and racist SlymePitters and those folks seem to &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/11/05/what-does-sexism-and-harassment-feel-like-to-you/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">What does sexism and harassment feel like to you?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Secular Coalition of America&#039;s Big Goof</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/29/the-secular-coalition-of-americas-big-goof/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Edwina Rogers]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Secular Coalition of America is a lobbying group that represents several groups, including American Atheists, the American Humanist Association, Camp Quest, the Secular Student Alliance and so on. A few months ago the SCA made news, in a bad way, by appointing a former Bush White House Staffer, Edwina Rogers, as Executive Director. Many &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/09/29/the-secular-coalition-of-americas-big-goof/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Secular Coalition of America&#039;s Big Goof</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>I was almost abducted by aliens</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/06/30/i-was-almost-abducted-by-aliens/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 02:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[aliens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[optical illusions]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every now and then a news story comes along that makes me want to repost this particular thing I wrote a long time ago. And it has happened again. First, the news story: National Geographic Channel has run a poll in which they found that 36% of Americans &#8220;believe UFO&#8217;s exist.&#8221; This is in line &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/06/30/i-was-almost-abducted-by-aliens/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">I was almost abducted by aliens</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Antiskeptics</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/06/10/the-antiskeptics/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Skeptical Skepticism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Skeptics fight an up hill battle. This battle consists of deploying critical thinking across a range of cultural landscapes, implementing scientific thinking to solve problems, and the thoughtful evaluation of knowledge, while 90 percent of the world is out to stop you, or at least make it hard. Or so it seems. To be honest, &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/06/10/the-antiskeptics/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Antiskeptics</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Skepticism is a cultural phenomenon</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/25/skepticism-is-a-cultural-pheno/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[skepticism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Skepticism is a cultural phenomenon. I know that many self-declared skeptics prefer to &#8230; ah &#8230; believe otherwise, or as they would perhaps say, they have deduced from pure principles using sound logic that Skepticism is rational behavior and there is nothing cultural about it. But they are wrong, and that is trivially easy to &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/04/25/skepticism-is-a-cultural-pheno/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Skepticism is a cultural phenomenon</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Skeptical Movement as a Dysfunctional Corporation with a Nightmare HR Problem</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/07/23/the-skeptical-movement-as-a-dy/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Greg Laden]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 11:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[human resources practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skeptical Skepticism]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Just an idea &#8230; not entirely work safe &#8230; below the fold. Imagine that Rebecca Watson, Stef McGraw, Richard Dawkins, PZ Myers, Barbara Drescher, Stephanie Zvan, All the Skepchicks, Me, all the other bloggers, and most of the commmenters on our blogs discussing Rebeccapocalypse all worked for the same big-giant company and this entire discussion &#8230; <a href="https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/07/23/the-skeptical-movement-as-a-dy/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Skeptical Movement as a Dysfunctional Corporation with a Nightmare HR Problem</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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