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Author Archives: Brian Dunning
Dalai Lama: Savior, or Selfish Jerk?
So this week, the London bureau of CNN reported: The Dalai Lama refused to answer a question Monday about whether Tibetan monks should stop setting themselves on fire to protest China’s occupation of Tibet. “No answer,” he said, saying it … Continue reading
Posted in Events, TV & Media
Tagged buddhism, dalai lama, free tibet, potala, self-imolation, tibet
49 Comments
Skeptoid T-Shirt Contest
Skeptoid needs new T-shirts. Although I’m really happy with those that we already have, we need to expand the collection into designs that are more commercial, and that people will actually want to wear around in public and look sharp … Continue reading
Hypersonic HTV-2 bails at Mach 20
Following a seven-month scientific investigation, DARPA has released the cause of the early termination of the Mach 20 flight of the HTV-2 hypersonic flight last August. The HTV-2 is an unpowered glide test vehicle, accelerated to Mach 20 (21,000 kph, … Continue reading
Skeptoid Dramatic Pause Study
So it’s one of my little catch phrases on the podcast. A lot of times I’ll close an episode with “Whenever you see [some silly claim], you should always… [dramatic pause] be skeptical.” Well I guess I do it often … Continue reading
Posted in Skeptoid Podcast
Tagged dramatic pause, hard science, important things, linear regression, skeptoid, statistical analysis
5 Comments
Pacific Flyer lets me down
I am a fan of, and happy subscriber to, Pacific Flyer magazine. Anyone who loves aviation should be. Pilots are a conservative bunch, and occasionally Pacific Flyer will veer toward anti-government conspiracy mongering; but I forgive them that since the … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, Urban Legends
Tagged aliens, area 51, aviation, Pacific flyer, roswell
6 Comments
More Amelia Earhart Nonsense
As I went into great detail in my Skeptoid episode about the fate of Amelia Earhart, she and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared in 1937 off Howland Island in the south Pacific when they ran out of fuel in the immediate … Continue reading
Posted in Events, TV & Media, Urban Legends
Tagged amelia earhart, bob ballard, discovery channel
12 Comments
Naturopath Licensing in California
In 14 US states, quacks are empowered to govern their competitors. The State of California has a Naturopathic Medicine Committee that licenses naturopaths. This is a terrible idea, because it wrongly implies to consumers that some naturopaths are better able to … Continue reading
Psychic Prediction: Rush Limbaugh’s Advertisers Will Be Back
I just want to get this psychic prediction on record, so James Randi can award me the million dollars. In the wake of yet another outpouring of popular furor over Rush Limbaugh’s offensive comments, advertisers including AOL, Sleep Number, The Sleep … Continue reading
Agent Orange and GMO: Non-Sequitur of the Day
Today I was alerted to a blog post entitled “Outrageous: Agent Orange Maker Monsanto Seeks Return to Vietnam for GMO Crops“. The headline is certainly startling and attention-grabbing; it includes just about every shock-inducing term known. To summarize the article, … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Nature
Tagged agent orange, agriculture, gmo, irri, logical fallacies, monsanto
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Susan G. Komen for the Cure and Planned Parenthood
There’s been quite a lot of noise in the news lately. Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the United States’ largest and most active philanthropic foundation for breast cancer, halted its $600K+ annual funding of Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest … Continue reading
Posted in Health
Tagged breast cancer, charities, charity, planned parenthood, reproductive health, susan g komen for the cure
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