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What are the best Skeptic podcasts?
There are many, many podcasts covering all aspects of scepticism but what are your favourites.
Rules:
Use the heading format for the title of the podcast (see formatting refere …
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How they built pyramids?
I read a story years ago in which it was told that they got power over gravity and lifted those huge stones to make pyramids (well that was just a writers opinion).
Another claims …
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What is missing in the world of skeptical podcasting/blogging?
What subjects, topics, themes or approaches are not been sufficiently explored in the world of skeptical media?
Wikifying this for back and forth discussion.
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Just how inaccurate are vaccine myths?
I was sent the following link by a friend and they were concerned that someone was passing it around on Twitter. What would be some good refutations for its content?
http://www.inf …
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What is determinism?
From Wikipedia:
Determinism is the view that every event, including human cognition, behavior, decision, and action, is causally determined by an unbroken chain of prior occur …
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Is recycling worth it?
Whilst looking frustratedly at the recycling piling up in my garage, waiting for me to deliver it to the center since the pick-up service in our neighborhood is so stringent that t …
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What is a good, scientifically rigorous protocol for testing alleged physic ability?
What is a good, scientifically rigorous protocol for testing alleged physic ability?
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Are Dark Matter and Energy Evidence for the Existence of God?
Put on your critical-thinking caps and try this thought experiment on for size. Sorry about the mixed metaphors. :)
Often persons who are critical-thinking and religious argue th …
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Is there a proven, scientifically-based link between antibiotic use in livestock and the upswing of antibotic-resistant bacteria?
I keep seeing this posited as fact, but can't find any studies that show it to be true. Every site that purports it to be true seems to be a pro-"organic" site. What's the scoop? …
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Mormonism - What is the evidence for Jesus' travels in America?
Mormonism, which I am only aware of through the book America Unchained by Dave Gorman, is not a religion I've ever really come across. (I do feel suitably ignorant).
I have read a …
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Girls producing Crystals with Eyes - reality or fake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5_Rj2zKMy4
See the video. I have searched all over internet but did not find anything that can explain this. What is the answer for this in medical …
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What tickles your funny bone?
I think it's about time we had a place to post skeptically-related items that make us smile :)
Here's one to start us off, an old but good Onion story.
And here's the homeopathy …
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How Important is the Internet to Skepticism?
Although I am Forty-one and have always been interested in science and have been a critical thinker for a long time, until I started listing to skeptical podcasts, I do not think I …
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Do skeptics have a religion?
Do skeptics have a religion or believe in religion?