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For general skepticism - not limited to specific topics - what are the best blogs?
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Mine! :p Actually, having worked on collating the Skeptical Blog Anthology for the Young Australian Skeptics, I'd suggest you have a look at one of the most recent short-lists that has been gathered so far? There'll be an update later this week, which will reflect what the general public has considered to be top-blog posts from a variety of well-regarded skeptical blogs. |
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Obviously I should say mine, but there are far better ones out there. The main limitation of sceptical blogs is generally that they focus on refutation, which means they either follow a current trend (like homeopathy, chiropractic, magic bomb detectors etc.) leading to rapid over-saturation in the sceptical bloggosphere, or they pound over the worn path of refuting creationists, IDers and the Pope's recurring misanthropy. It's hard to be sceptical and blaze a new trail - since scepticism is, by definition, dependent on someone talking nonsense as an instigator of action. I prefer science blogs with sceptical content, like Pharyngula, which manages to provide something new as well as beating the old paths very well and in a topical way. |
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I suggest the Skepchick Blog because they go across the board on all kinds of woo, and the discussions that ensue on the comments are both brilliant and hilarious, which prompted them to create a Comment Of The Week (aka COTW!) award: |
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After thinking about this one for a while, I have to give it to Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy site, http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/. Sure, it's got a lot of astronomy on it, so if you're not into that stuff, you'll have some noise to sift through to get to the skeptical pieces, but Phil has his ear to the ground on lots of different skeptical topics. When something hot is happening in Skeptical Blog Land™, you can rest assured that Phil will pick it up, and usually link to the epicenter of the discussion, wherever it's taking place. Basically, if I could only read ONE skeptical blog, I'd read his, and I wouldn't feel like I was going to miss out on anything. |
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I find, while not overtly skeptical the New Humanest blog always approaches a subject with great deal for rationalism. |
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the ones I read regularly - Science based medicine: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/ Skepticblog: http://skepticblog.org/ JREF Swift Blog: http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog.html |
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