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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Creationism, Education, Internet | No Comments »I've had a cunning plan. Believe it or not, it began when I watched a debate between Kent Hovind and Michael Shermer that I blogged about ages ago. I noticed that every single thing Shermer said, Hovind had a ready-prepared ...
Fraud ratings
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Internet, Paranormal | No Comments »As part of my new role as Cyber-Skeptic (TM), I thought I'd start monitoring some other numbers that people might find interesting. So, here's introducing the fraud ratings system. Yet again, this comes thanks to those wonderful folks at Google. Here's ...
Operation Psychic-watch
Monday, July 28th, 2008 Posted in Internet, Paranormal | 3 Comments »So I had another great idea. Lots of psychics put up predictions on their websites; predictions of events that they claim will take place at some point over the upcoming year. One of the most verbose seems to be Nikki, ...
Computational Skepticism
Sunday, July 27th, 2008 Posted in General, Internet | No Comments »Great news, folks - I think I've found my niche. I was wondering exactly how I could help in the world of Skepticism, and I was rapidly learning that what the world doesn't need is yet another skeptic blog simply ...
Astronaut goes crazy
Friday, July 25th, 2008 Posted in E.T. | No Comments »Sadly, it appears that former NASA astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell has gone nuts, and is now claiming that he has access to privileged information that aliens exist. Moreover, they have apparently visited the Earth many times and the government of ...
Congratulations, Lauren!
Thursday, July 24th, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »Just a short update tonight - I've spent the afternoon and evening in town with my fiancee and her family to attend her graduation. It's been a totally gorgeous day here and I just wanted to say how incredibly proud ...
Language
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Psychology | No Comments »Every time I try to write some software to deal with language, I'm always amazed by how difficult it is. Humans rarely appreciate exactly how complex our language skills really are. For example, today I had to write code to ...
Allah meat
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »Wow, it's a fast news day today, folks. And this is probably one of the funniest news stories that I've seen in ages. I'd heard of the Virgin Mary toastie and the Virgin Mary stain and the totally awesome nun ...
Karadzic found practising quackery
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 Posted in General, Health | No Comments »Great news, folks. Bosnian Serb war-crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic has finally been arrested. And guess what? He was practising alternative medicine in a Belgrade clinic. Now, if only scientists were allowed to use ad-hominem attacks, oh what fun we could ...
A level playing field
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 Posted in General | No Comments »I was thinking about debating pseudoscientists again today. I often do that... It struck me today that one of the main problems scientists have with defending the scientific consensus is that it takes a whole lot longer to explain the ...
