Captain Disillusion visits TAM 7

I’ve been lazy today, so have little of substance to say. But the latest Carnival of the Godless is up, and worth a read, so I can spare a moment to direct you there. Also, you really need to see the latest video from Captain Disillusion. He’s always awesome anyway, and his latest long-awaited update [...]

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10:23 campaign update: Hundreds dead in tragic homeopathic overdose pact

Tragedy struck across the globe today, as members of a science-based internet cult known as 10:23 committed mass suicide, by taking overdoses of homeopathic medications. The scheme had been orchestrated well in advance of the appointed time, with the group’s website showing a ticking clock for several weeks previously, counting down to the exact minute [...]

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10:23 – the hour of judgment approaches

In precisely 12 hours from the time this post should go up, several hundred people in groups around the UK will each pop a whole bottle of pills bought from a high street chemist. The 10:23 event is nearly upon us. Okay, fine, homeopaths are saying that you wouldn’t expect anything to happen in reaction [...]

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Wakefield: Officially shit

It’s been over 11 years since Andrew Wakefield first published his paper in the Lancet that kicked off the whole media MMR hoax. So I’m not entirely sure why there’s still news coming out now about the whole palaver. But evidently the General Medical Council has just recently been investigating him for serious professional misconduct. [...]

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An instruction:

Discover Chiropractic. That is all. No, really. Nothing else today. Just a quick plug for the above very worthwhile new site by Zeno. I’ll go write something for an upcoming Skeptictionary article to make up for being dull the last couple of days.

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Give us yer spleen!

Just a quickie today. My organ donor card turned up recently, so if you’re ever in the market for some replacement squishy bits, you know where to come. Alternatively, you can sign up as well to the organ donor register if you’re in the UK, or possibly OrganDonor.gov for our fellows across the pond. Or, [...]

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What “Health Ranger” Mike Adams really believes

Remember that guy from a couple of days ago, who was disqualified from the Shorty Awards because of all those blatantly phony accounts that had “voted” for him? He’s gone and had second and third helpings of a big ol’ bowl of crazy. The very existence of people with a natural tendency to doubt unlikely [...]

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Important reminder: religious != moral

This is depressing on two counts. It’s a dismal reminder of the way some people still think, and it has me agreeing with the majority of Daily Mail commenters. Basically, a guy punched a guy in the face a couple of times, for no particularly mitigating reason that I can discern. He pleaded guilty to [...]

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A skeptic victory cluster

We’ve been winning all over the place lately. A brief review: The guy who sold those completely bullshit “bomb detectors” to security forces in Iraq has been arrested on suspicion of fraud. The guy took some bits of plastic, told people it was a jumped-up dowsing rod that could find explosives, and made millions. I [...]

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The absurdality of homeopathy denialificators

At the same time as it’s being ridiculed as a pointless stunt, the 10:23 campaign has prompted an entire backlash website of its own, at 1023homeopathy.org.uk. It’s not a very good website. One post in particular caught my eye today, thanks to @giagia and @Crispian_Jago, among the many others who’ve kept my Twitter feed busy [...]

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