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Tag Archives: Skepticism
Why are women (slightly more) religious?
Are women more likely to be stupid/gullible? That seems to be the assumption that the ungenerous of us might make when considering the 7% gap between men and women when it comes to religious affiliation….
… that was discussed recently in an ARIS poll. Earlier, I had pointed to Stephanie Zvan’s comments on this, and now I see that Pandagon is all over it too. I just hope the ladies at Pandagon don’t just buy the bill of goods or fall for the old snake oil routine or anything.
Gender Difference in Skepticism?
Are women less skeptical than men? Follow that link to find Stephanie Zvan’s analysis of the recently reported study that is making its way around the Internet. Stephanie seems to buy into the study uncritically, you know, like chicks tend to do …… NOT!
The Night I Was Almost Abducted by Aliens in Boston
Nineteen former pilots and government officials … told reporters their questions can no longer be dismissed …”We want the US government to stop perpetuating the myth that all UFOs can be explained away in down-to-earth, conventional terms,” said Fife Symington, former governor of Arizona… “Instead our country needs to reopen its official investigation that it shut down in 1969,” Symington told a news conference. [source]
I saw an UFO (pronounced “ooofo,” I think) once too. It was a sight I can never forget. Let me tell you about it.
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Atheists are the cause of 911 – treat them accordingly
Dave Mabus sent me this along with a threatening e-mail with a subject line I’ve used as the title of this post.
The email was cc’ed to me, but meant of PZ Myers, and it says:
Hey PZ Myers, you little fool…
Just wanted to let you know this has been posted on every forum of the internet. Some good came out of you after all. They will remember your ugly blaspheming head forever!
Good riddance….
If you comment on this post, I recommend you do not include a link-back because Dave will mine it for your email address and from now on you will get an obnoxious emails like this too. The emails will come in temporal clusters of several emails in a few days, then trail off. I assume this has something to do with his meds.
He sends these threatening and obnoxious emails to PZ’s family, employers, friends, and he sends emails like this to all of the “letters to the editors” and “comments” emial boxes of every major news outlet.
But he got something wrong. It is not true that this video is posted all over the internet. It was not posted, for instance, on my site.
Until now. Now it’s finally on my blog too, and I think that was the last one. So yo’re done, finally. You’re welcome Dave.
The anxiety of the threes
So, bad things come in threes, right? Well, no, we don’t believe that. This discussion came up after the recent death of Michale Jackson. A rumor of the death of another celebrity came along (that rumor was incorrect) and this somehow sparked a discussion of there “needing to be” a third death to fulfill the prophecy of the three … because Farah Fawcett had died, then Michale Jackson, and then ….. OMG!! Who was going to be next!!!
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Skepchick Karen Totally Sokalizes Haunted America Tours Blog!!!
Karen Stollznow Soks the Haunted America Tours Blog. Karen came up with a totally lame (yet nonetheless titillating) explanation for sexual arousal, wet dreams, and AM erections, made up a totally fake academic cover, and sent a writeup of this explanation to the ghost blog which, in turn, took the bait hook line and sinker. (Am I still en metaphor? OK, good, I think so.)
You must visit her blog post and read the details and explore the link.
Brilliant! I will sleep easy tonight.