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		<title>Belgian hype around mindfulness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 07:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruno Van de Casteele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday there was a documentary on the public television network (Dutch) here in my country about Mindfulness. In an hour-long documentary, this hyped phenomenon was presented in a rather nuanced way, with both the advantages and risks associated with this psychotherapy. Luckily / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/19/hype-around-mindfulness/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>MercolaWatch:Dangerous reasoning about the chickenpox vaccine</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/17/mercolawatchdangerous-reasoning-about-the-chickenpox-vaccine/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=mercolawatchdangerous-reasoning-about-the-chickenpox-vaccine</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh DeWald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an April article, &#8220;Despite Doctor&#8217;s Order, School Bans Girl for Not Getting Chickenpox Vaccine&#8221;, Mercola is at it again with strange logic which seems to directly contradict the available facts. It seems that like many who are anti-vaccine, the / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/17/mercolawatchdangerous-reasoning-about-the-chickenpox-vaccine/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How Solar Flares Will Leave The Earth And Its Inhabitants Mostly Unharmed</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/17/how-solar-flares-will-leave-the-earth-and-its-inhabitants-mostly-unharmed/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=how-solar-flares-will-leave-the-earth-and-its-inhabitants-mostly-unharmed</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 07:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dani Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since we are in the peak (solar maximum) of the Sun&#8217;s 11 year cycle, we are seeing much more solar activity than we have in the past few years. It may seem scary to some, but the sun has been / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/17/how-solar-flares-will-leave-the-earth-and-its-inhabitants-mostly-unharmed/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sigmund Freud and Cocaine: A Love Story?</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/16/sigmund-freud-and-cocaine-a-love-story/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sigmund-freud-and-cocaine-a-love-story</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 00:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennie Burd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sigmund Freud’s cocaine use is old news.  Freud provided extensive documentation himself, including letters, academic publications, and autobiographical material. He even left behind a small sample of his drug of choice, which was recovered from an envelope in the Library / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/16/sigmund-freud-and-cocaine-a-love-story/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>I Predict the Mother of All Comebacks</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/16/i-predict-the-mother-of-all-comebacks/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=i-predict-the-mother-of-all-comebacks</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/16/i-predict-the-mother-of-all-comebacks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 19:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M O'Callaghan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Republic of Ireland is facing deep financial crisis, as these robots will explain: &#160; The 1980s were also a difficult time for the Republic. The troubles over the northern border were at their height. Ireland was facing a seemingly / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/16/i-predict-the-mother-of-all-comebacks/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Consumer Effects Of &#8216;Infotainment&#8217; Science Reporting</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/16/the-consumer-effects-of-infotainment-science-reporting/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-consumer-effects-of-infotainment-science-reporting</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/16/the-consumer-effects-of-infotainment-science-reporting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 18:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Hudson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now this is the kind of journalism I like to see. Earlier today, the Guardian published &#8220;The need for critical science journalism&#8221; by Dr. Jalees Rehman, a well-aimed jab at the way most media outlets handle science reporting. Labeling the / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/16/the-consumer-effects-of-infotainment-science-reporting/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>More Evolutionary Evidence</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/15/more-evolutionary-evidence/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=more-evolutionary-evidence</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/15/more-evolutionary-evidence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 23:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Propatier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creationists often point to gaps, or anomalies in the fossil record as evidence that evolutionary theory is incorrect. They fail to acknowledge that the fossil record heavily supports common ancestry and evolution. Creationist often point to &#8220;sudden appearance&#8221; as evidence for / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/15/more-evolutionary-evidence/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Miniature Skeleton: Not an alien</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/14/miniature-skeleton-not-an-alien/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=miniature-skeleton-not-an-alien</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/14/miniature-skeleton-not-an-alien/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 01:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Weaver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this report last week. The buzz was up about Ata, a tiny (12cm) skeleton found about 10 years ago in the Atacama desert in Chile. The story of Ata has come to light with a recent UFO documentary, / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/14/miniature-skeleton-not-an-alien/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Crisis Actor? What Crisis Actor?</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/13/crisis-actor-what-crisis-actor/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=crisis-actor-what-crisis-actor</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/13/crisis-actor-what-crisis-actor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 12:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Rothschild</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like “false flag”, the term “crisis actor” has recently become a concept that conspiracy theorists love to throw around when trying to prove that some atrocity is actually a fake, planned by the government as an excuse to strip us / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/13/crisis-actor-what-crisis-actor/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Centralized production of Roman glass</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/12/centralized-production-of-roman-glass/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=centralized-production-of-roman-glass</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/12/centralized-production-of-roman-glass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 07:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruno Van de Casteele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes we underestimate the capacities of our ancestors. Take for instance the ancient Romans, who developed the craft of blowing glass, instead of casting it. The results are sometimes phenomenally beautiful, as the Wikipedia page on Roman glass attests. The knowledge of / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/12/centralized-production-of-roman-glass/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Philosophy in Physics</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/11/philosophy-in-physics/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=philosophy-in-physics</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/11/philosophy-in-physics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 03:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last week of the spring semester at the community college where I teach is next week. I had my last lecture session that covered new material on Thursday. The last topic discussed in my &#8220;Elements of Physics&#8221; class was / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/11/philosophy-in-physics/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Will the Host of Skeptoid Lose His Voice?</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/11/laryngoscopy/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=laryngoscopy</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/11/laryngoscopy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 20:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Dunning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, it&#8217;s just a sensationalist headline. You should never trust headlines like that. However I have been having some pain on my larynx when I speak, and it&#8217;s been going on for about six weeks. So I went in to / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/11/laryngoscopy/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Going to Mars with MAVEN</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/10/going-to-mars-with-maven/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=going-to-mars-with-maven</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/10/going-to-mars-with-maven/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dani Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mars Rovers have shown us that minerals exist on Mars that only form in the presence of water. This discovery confirms the idea that the barren planet used to have potentially life-bearing water on its surface. Right now, the / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/10/going-to-mars-with-maven/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Stem Cell Business &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/09/the-stem-cell-business-part-2/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-stem-cell-business-part-2</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/09/the-stem-cell-business-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 22:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M O'Callaghan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part one of this short series looked at unregulated stem cell clinics fleecing patients of their savings and robbing them of their health and even their lives. I had intended to write about the changes to regulation of stem cell / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/09/the-stem-cell-business-part-2/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>SETI and Plausibility</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/09/seti-and-plausibility/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=seti-and-plausibility</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/09/seti-and-plausibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 15:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Propatier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Steven Novella MD is a well recognized leader in the skeptical community. He is personal skeptic hero of mine. I think you will see some of his thoughts and descriptions incorporated into my thinking. I often say I was always a / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/09/seti-and-plausibility/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The harm in psychics</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/07/the-harm-in-psychics/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-harm-in-psychics</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 23:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Weaver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we go to bat against people who prey on fear, uncertainty, grief, and ignorance, such as many psychics, we often hear “What’s the harm? If it makes people feel better, let them find their comfort” or something to that / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/07/the-harm-in-psychics/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Seven Brilliant Quotes? Not So Much</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/06/seven-brilliant-quotes-not-so-much/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=seven-brilliant-quotes-not-so-much</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/06/seven-brilliant-quotes-not-so-much/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 12:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Rothschild</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel like I have a pretty good eye for what’s real and what’s not, especially when it comes to memes and photos on the internet. So when I recently saw a friend post a picture on Facebook entitled “Seven / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/06/seven-brilliant-quotes-not-so-much/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Herschel closes its eyes &#8211; for good</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/05/herschel-closes-its-eyes-for-good/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=herschel-closes-its-eyes-for-good</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 07:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruno Van de Casteele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ESA, the European Space Agency, announced several days ago that their infrared space observatory, Herschel, has gone blind. The probe was specialized in observing near-infrared and sub-millimeter wavelengths, but had to be cooled to almost absolute zero in order to / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/05/herschel-closes-its-eyes-for-good/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Roundup and Gut Bacteria</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/04/roundup-and-gut-bacteria/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=roundup-and-gut-bacteria</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/04/roundup-and-gut-bacteria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 15:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: I recently became a contributor over at The Skeptical Libertarian. There will be some cross-posting and similar topics covered. This is a benefit, however, as it has already brought to my attention new material which I might not have otherwise / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/04/roundup-and-gut-bacteria/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>MercolaWatch:Supposed &#8220;report&#8221; comparing GMO and non-GMO corn</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/03/mercolawatchsupposed-report-comparing-gmo-and-non-gmo-corn/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=mercolawatchsupposed-report-comparing-gmo-and-non-gmo-corn</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/03/mercolawatchsupposed-report-comparing-gmo-and-non-gmo-corn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 15:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh DeWald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While it may appear that I attack every article that Joe Mercola writes, his &#8220;newsletter&#8221; averages two articles every day except for Sunday (about the same volume as the Skeptoid group blog, except everything is published under his own name). / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/03/mercolawatchsupposed-report-comparing-gmo-and-non-gmo-corn/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Of Schools, Skepticism, and Snopes</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/03/of-schools-skepticism-and-snopes/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=of-schools-skepticism-and-snopes</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/03/of-schools-skepticism-and-snopes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 14:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Hudson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, I&#8217;m sure many of you have seen the alleged &#8220;science quiz&#8221; making the rounds on the Internet &#8212; the one that says dinosaurs lived with people and that an Apatosaurus is the best explanation for the Leviathan of / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/03/of-schools-skepticism-and-snopes/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Extreme Surface Features Of Mars: Olympus Mons, Tallest Volcano In The Solar System!</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/03/extreme-surface-features-of-mars-olympus-mons-tallest-volcano-in-the-solar-system/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=extreme-surface-features-of-mars-olympus-mons-tallest-volcano-in-the-solar-system</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/03/extreme-surface-features-of-mars-olympus-mons-tallest-volcano-in-the-solar-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dani Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Mars being our closest accessible neighbor, it&#8217;s no surprise that we have had so many missions to study the red warrior. The six active missions to Mars include the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Mars Exploration Rover (Opportunity), and the / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/03/extreme-surface-features-of-mars-olympus-mons-tallest-volcano-in-the-solar-system/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Stem Cell Business &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/02/the-stem-cell-business-part-1/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-stem-cell-business-part-1</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/02/the-stem-cell-business-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 21:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M O'Callaghan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 22, 2013, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) issued a press release urging, &#8220;Italian lawmakers to heed concerns of scientists around the world about the premature practice of unproven stem cell treatments.&#8221; The warning comes after Italy&#8217;s / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/02/the-stem-cell-business-part-1/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>American Heart Association promotes alternative therapy for hypertension.</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/01/american-heart-association-promotes-alternative-therapy-for-hypertension/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=american-heart-association-promotes-alternative-therapy-for-hypertension</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/01/american-heart-association-promotes-alternative-therapy-for-hypertension/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 03:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Propatier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On April 22 2013 the American Heart Association came out with a a opinion statement recommending &#8221;alternative therapy&#8221; for the management of hypertension. They are a nationally recognized source for information about heart disease and hypertension treatment. The AHA published it&#8217;s statement in the journal of / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/05/01/american-heart-association-promotes-alternative-therapy-for-hypertension/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Alexandria&#8217;s Genesis</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/30/alexandrias-genesis/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=alexandrias-genesis</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/30/alexandrias-genesis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Weaver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My daughter asked me the other day if there was such a condition as “Alexandria’s Genesis.” Apparently stories of this rare, genetic mutation were going around at school and on her social media sites. The claims for this mutation are / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/30/alexandrias-genesis/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Remembrance of Fads Past: Orgone and Velikovsky</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Rothschild</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The speed with which trends on the internet move means that something can go from unknown to hugely popular to mocked while one is on a long vacation. But fads themselves are as old as history, and while an internet / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/29/remembrance-of-fads-past-orgone-and-velikovsky/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How an Excel error impacted the world</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/28/how-an-excel-error-impacted-the-world/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=how-an-excel-error-impacted-the-world</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 07:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruno Van de Casteele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2010, an important economic science paper was published by Reinhart and Rogoff (pdf here). One of their main points was that countries with a public debt above 90% of GDP had a significant lower economic growth rate. They compared data / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/28/how-an-excel-error-impacted-the-world/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Natural Dog Supplements – Aloe Vera Juice</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/27/natural-dog-supplements-aloe-vera-juice/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=natural-dog-supplements-aloe-vera-juice</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I take a look at another supplement promoted by some websites as a way to make your dog &#8220;healthier.&#8221; Much like other supplements, it seems the advice on Aloe Vera has carried over right from the same woo peddled / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/27/natural-dog-supplements-aloe-vera-juice/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Skepticism and me</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/26/skepticism-and-me/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=skepticism-and-me</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/26/skepticism-and-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh DeWald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently asked &#8220;Do you really need evidence for everything?&#8221; That&#8217;s actually a difficult question to answer, but the short answer is &#8220;yes, I do&#8221;. In practice, I don&#8217;t need to look up absolutely everything because I have already / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/26/skepticism-and-me/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Saturn’s Magnetic Field Pulls “Rain” Into Atmosphere from Ring System</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/26/saturns-magnetic-field-pulls-rain-into-atmosphere-from-ring-system/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=saturns-magnetic-field-pulls-rain-into-atmosphere-from-ring-system</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/26/saturns-magnetic-field-pulls-rain-into-atmosphere-from-ring-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dani Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturn&#8217;s rings are responsible for a unique type of rain that falls into the atmosphere of the gas giant. Saturn&#8217;s magnetic field is pulling charged water particles into the atmosphere which interact with the atmosphere. Scientists estimate that there&#8217;s at / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/26/saturns-magnetic-field-pulls-rain-into-atmosphere-from-ring-system/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Peer Review and the MMR-Autism Debacle</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/25/peer-review-and-the-mmr-autism-debacle/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=peer-review-and-the-mmr-autism-debacle</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/25/peer-review-and-the-mmr-autism-debacle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M O'Callaghan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a study is submitted to a scientific journal, it goes through a number of stages, at any of which, its publication could be rejected. The editorial team check the paper. They ensure it fits within the scope of their / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/25/peer-review-and-the-mmr-autism-debacle/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Does eating chocolate give you acne?</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/24/does-eating-chocolate-give-you-acne/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=does-eating-chocolate-give-you-acne</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/24/does-eating-chocolate-give-you-acne/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 01:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Propatier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cytokine &#8220;The Official journal of the International Cytokine Society&#8221; published a small study suggesting a link between consuming chocolate and Adult/Adolescent Acne. The  MyHealthNewsDaily published an article based on the study,&#8221;Bittersweet News: Chocolate May Trigger Acne&#8220;. It is a compelling narrative. The actual / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/24/does-eating-chocolate-give-you-acne/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>That Big Foot&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/23/that-big-foot/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=that-big-foot</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Weaver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The internets are abuzz today about a large, decomposing foot found by two boys in Massachusetts last month. Why this is breaking now, I do not know. Let’s take a look at this claimed “Bigfoot” foot. My first reaction to / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/23/that-big-foot/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Loose Tweets Sink Lives</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/22/loose-tweets-sink-lives/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=loose-tweets-sink-lives</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/22/loose-tweets-sink-lives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Rothschild</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’re all familiar by now with the mistakes made in the reporting of the bombing of the Boston Marathon, and how they turned both the “traditional media” and citizen journalists into fountains of misinformation and error. But what hasn’t been / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/22/loose-tweets-sink-lives/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The hygiene of wind</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/21/the-hygiene-of-wind/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-hygiene-of-wind</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/21/the-hygiene-of-wind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruno Van de Casteele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hygiene in a hospital environment is very important. Medical staff with a cold are only allowed around critical patients with the necessary protection &#8211; or not at all. This is quite normal, as sneezing and coughing can spread diseases. So / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/21/the-hygiene-of-wind/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Skepticism and Science for Kids</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/20/skepticism-and-science-for-kids/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=skepticism-and-science-for-kids</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/20/skepticism-and-science-for-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I thought I&#8217;d break away from more serious themes and talk a little about introducing my children to science and skepticism. Whenever my kids ask me science questions, I try to make sure I give them a correct / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/20/skepticism-and-science-for-kids/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>7 Interesting Things About Our Solar System</title>
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		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/19/7-interesting-things-about-our-solar-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 02:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dani Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Solar System is a fascinating place, but it&#8217;s easy to be overwhelmed by its gargantuan size and the massive amount of data we have on everything we can gather data from. I have compiled a list of 7 things / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/19/7-interesting-things-about-our-solar-system/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>MercolaWatch:On Environmental Factors for Autism &#8212; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/19/mercolawatchon-environmental-factors-for-autism-part-2/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=mercolawatchon-environmental-factors-for-autism-part-2</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/19/mercolawatchon-environmental-factors-for-autism-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh DeWald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second of a two-part response to a recent mercola.com speculating on environmental causes for autism. This part briefly responds to his mention of vaccines, phthalates and gut flora. Vaccines Vaccines: A 2011 review of the peer-reviewed published / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/19/mercolawatchon-environmental-factors-for-autism-part-2/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>False Flag Fallacy Frustration</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/17/false-flag-fallacy-frustration/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=false-flag-fallacy-frustration</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/17/false-flag-fallacy-frustration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Propatier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently a fellow Skeptoid blog poster wrote a piece about false flag attacks/myths. He did a wonderful job and I do not wish to retread all it&#8217;s very salient points. I live within 50 miles of Boston Massachusetts, I day trip there, and / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/17/false-flag-fallacy-frustration/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Jurassic Park Phobia</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/16/the-jurassic-park-phobia/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-jurassic-park-phobia</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/16/the-jurassic-park-phobia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 05:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan McKinney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent and unproductive Facebook debate over GMO crops, I found myself invoking Jurassic Park. I made the argument on the spur of the moment that those of us who grew up watching velociraptors stalk Timmy through the kitchen are / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/16/the-jurassic-park-phobia/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>IMO: UFOs and Alien Visitation</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/16/imo-ufos-and-alien-visitation/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=imo-ufos-and-alien-visitation</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/16/imo-ufos-and-alien-visitation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Weaver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this installment of IMO (in my opinion), let’s talk a bit about UFOs and alien visitation. UFOs, in this context, doesn&#8217;t exactly mean “Unidentified Flying Objects” but rather “Alien Spacecraft” (or possibly government experimental craft, time travelers, inter-dimensional travelers, I’m going to stick / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/16/imo-ufos-and-alien-visitation/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>No, Hitler Did Not Let the British Escape at Dunkirk</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/15/no-hitler-did-not-let-the-british-escape-at-dunkirk/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=no-hitler-did-not-let-the-british-escape-at-dunkirk</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/15/no-hitler-did-not-let-the-british-escape-at-dunkirk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Rothschild</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first week of June, 1940, was a truly perilous time for the Allies in World War II. The German invasion of France a month earlier had torn apart the over-matched, poorly-led Allied army and drove the remnants back toward / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/15/no-hitler-did-not-let-the-british-escape-at-dunkirk/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Caviar against aging</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/14/caviar-against-aging/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=caviar-against-aging</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 07:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruno Van de Casteele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my way to work (by car, while listening to podcasts), I pass this beauty parlor. Some time ago, as seen in the picture, it offered a promotion. Translated it reads &#8220;anti aging facial treatment with caviar &#8211; new&#8221;. Now / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/14/caviar-against-aging/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Solar System: Pale Blue Uranus</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/13/solar-system-pale-blue-uranus/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=solar-system-pale-blue-uranus</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/13/solar-system-pale-blue-uranus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 04:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dani Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uranus is a spectacular planet in our Solar System that scientists still don&#8217;t know much about. It is the seventh planet from our sun and it shares the title of Ice Giant with only Neptune. We&#8217;ve only had one space / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/13/solar-system-pale-blue-uranus/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What is beauty?</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/13/what-is-beauty/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-is-beauty</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/13/what-is-beauty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does the word &#8220;beauty&#8221; bring to your mind? A pretty face, a flower, a mountain range, or even a sound can be easily described as beautiful. While I won&#8217;t disagree with any of these, today I&#8217;d like to share / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/13/what-is-beauty/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Homeopathic and Natural Dog Supplements &#8211; Garlic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started back writing for Skeptoid on a regular basis, I asked on my social media accounts what people would like to see me cover. One that had a few votes was Homeopathic treatments for dogs. As I have / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/13/homeopathic-and-natural-dog-supplements-garlic/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>MercolaWatch:On Environmental Factors for Autism &#8212; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/12/mercolawatchon-environmental-factors-for-autism-part-1/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=mercolawatchon-environmental-factors-for-autism-part-1</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/12/mercolawatchon-environmental-factors-for-autism-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh DeWald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent article by Joe Mercola, he has a list of what he deems to be likely environmental factors for autism (spoiler: he mentions vaccines). Let&#8217;s take a look at some of them. NOTE: I have no intent to / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/12/mercolawatchon-environmental-factors-for-autism-part-1/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Conspiracy Palooza</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/10/conspiracy-palooza/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=conspiracy-palooza</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 02:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Propatier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always find conspiracy theories to be the most interesting aspect of the information age. The thought process fascinates me. I also love to see how conspiracy thinking breeds conspiracy thinking. There was a national telephone survey questioning 1247 registered US voters on / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/10/conspiracy-palooza/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>So You Want To Go To Mars?</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/10/so-you-want-to-go-to-mars/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=so-you-want-to-go-to-mars</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/10/so-you-want-to-go-to-mars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennie Burd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year, a number of privately run organizations have been publicizing plans for manned missions to Mars, making the Curiosity rover feel undervalued and generally morose. But if you&#8217;re like me and you&#8217;ve spent a significant amount of time gorging / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/10/so-you-want-to-go-to-mars/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Scientific Consensus and the Argument from Authority</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/09/scientific-consensus-and-the-argument-from-authority/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=scientific-consensus-and-the-argument-from-authority</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/09/scientific-consensus-and-the-argument-from-authority/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 05:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan McKinney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote last week of the challenge of answering the question of when we have enough evidence. That question is related to another, or perhaps another series of questions, because we so often lack the time and the knowledge to / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/09/scientific-consensus-and-the-argument-from-authority/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>PSA: Fake Academic Journals</title>
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		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/09/psa-fake-academic-journals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Weaver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We in the science and skeptic community value peer-reviewed, scientific journal articles as being a reasonably high quality source of evidence and science. We use these articles to make a point, to inform our decisions, and to keep abreast of / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/09/psa-fake-academic-journals/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Nixon, Jackie Gleason and Some Dead Aliens</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/08/richard-nixon-jackie-gleason-and-some-dead-aliens/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=richard-nixon-jackie-gleason-and-some-dead-aliens</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/08/richard-nixon-jackie-gleason-and-some-dead-aliens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Rothschild</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a warm night in Florida on February 19, 1973. Two friends had spent part of the day playing golf and chatting about their mutual interests, not unusual behavior for friends to engage in. But these weren’t your usual / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/08/richard-nixon-jackie-gleason-and-some-dead-aliens/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mercury Rising</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/07/mercury-rising/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=mercury-rising</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/07/mercury-rising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 07:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruno Van de Casteele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were two interesting news stories last month about Mercury. Closest to our Sun, it&#8217;s a bit bigger as our Moon. Due to its proximity to the Sun, it&#8217;s one of the hotter places in our solar system (although Venus / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/07/mercury-rising/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What About The Comments?</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/06/what-about-the-comments/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-about-the-comments</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/06/what-about-the-comments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 22:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a few &#8220;heavier&#8221; posts upcoming, but in an effort to make them thorough, I didn&#8217;t have a good idea of what I could write as a shorter post for this week. I found some inspiration in the last couple / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/06/what-about-the-comments/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Moons of Saturn: Iapetus</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/04/the-moons-of-saturn-iapetus/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-moons-of-saturn-iapetus</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/04/the-moons-of-saturn-iapetus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 05:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dani Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; These two global images of Iapetus show the extreme brightness dichotomy on the surface of this peculiar Saturnian moon. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Iapetus (eye-APP-eh-tuss) is the third largest of Saturn’s 62 moons and one of only about 15 / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/04/the-moons-of-saturn-iapetus/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Skeptoid Celebrity Honorable Mentions</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/03/skeptoid-celebrity-honorable-mentions/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=skeptoid-celebrity-honorable-mentions</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/03/skeptoid-celebrity-honorable-mentions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 01:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Propatier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Skeptoid Episode 349, Brian covered his list of top 10 pro-science celebrities. He limited himself to a narrow band of celebrities/organizations that fulfilled a reasonable requirement. &#8220;Note that I chose not to include people whose profession is science or who / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/03/skeptoid-celebrity-honorable-mentions/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Enough Evidence</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/03/finding-enough-evidence/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=finding-enough-evidence</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/03/finding-enough-evidence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan McKinney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A student raised her hand in class the other day and asked a simple question: &#8220;How do you know when you have enough evidence?&#8221; We had been discussing cognitive biases and our tendency to assume that the evidence supports our / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/03/finding-enough-evidence/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>IMO: Definitions</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/02/imo-definitions/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=imo-definitions</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/02/imo-definitions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Weaver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article marks the first of a new series of editorial pieces. The IMO (In My Opinion) articles will represent my personal thoughts and opinions on items which, hopefully, are of some interest to the Skeptoid community. This articles do / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/02/imo-definitions/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Same-Sex Marriage and Logical Fallacies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Rothschild</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The issue of whether couples of the same sex should be allowed by law to marry stirs passions on both sides of the question, resulting in a heated debate between those who believe in marriage equality, and those who believe / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/04/01/same-sex-marriage-and-logical-fallacies/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Spawn of Satan: A Brief History of Monstrous Birth in Literature and Film</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/31/the-spawn-of-satan-a-brief-history-of-the-monstrous-birth-in-literature-and-film/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-spawn-of-satan-a-brief-history-of-the-monstrous-birth-in-literature-and-film</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/31/the-spawn-of-satan-a-brief-history-of-the-monstrous-birth-in-literature-and-film/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennie Burd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s face facts. Children, especially the evil ones, are scary. With their violent crayon drawings and sinister grins, evil children are the darlings of the horror genre. Evil babies and fetuses have inspired far fewer nightmarish vignettes. A child is / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/31/the-spawn-of-satan-a-brief-history-of-the-monstrous-birth-in-literature-and-film/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Come join me for AskScience Live!</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/31/come-join-me-for-askscience-live/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=come-join-me-for-askscience-live</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 1. 5 years ago I started a blog called &#8220;The Collapsed Wavefunction&#8220;. At the time the only reason I was doing it was to improve my writing skills. I had learned the hard way (failed grant proposals) that writing / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/31/come-join-me-for-askscience-live/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The beauty of a graph</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/31/the-beauty-of-a-graph/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-beauty-of-a-graph</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/31/the-beauty-of-a-graph/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 07:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruno Van de Casteele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about how one image can say more than a thousand words, and this in the context of history. But it&#8217;s also applicable in other sciences, and it&#8217;s a great way to communicate science to a greater / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/31/the-beauty-of-a-graph/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Statistics are weird&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 15:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intuition, in science, can often get you into a lot of trouble. Things like the wave/particle duality described in quantum mechanics, horseshoe orbits, and relativity seem to bend our minds in ways they just don&#8217;t want to go. An implicit / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/30/statistics-are-weird/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pot. Marijuana. Cannabis. Misunderstood Motives.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 14:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have had a regular argument over the years with a family member about both the recreational use of pot and the use of pot and derived materials from pot. Many of the claims promoted by this family member surround its use / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/30/pot-marijuana-cannabis-misunderstood-motives/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fact Check:Five Reasons to Buy Organic</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/29/fact-checkfive-reasons-to-buy-organic/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=fact-checkfive-reasons-to-buy-organic</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/29/fact-checkfive-reasons-to-buy-organic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh DeWald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across a sign entitled &#8220;5 Reasons to Buy Organic&#8221; at my local grocery store. Some of the reasons struck me as being inaccurate, or at least misleading, so I decided I would take a quick look at the / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/29/fact-checkfive-reasons-to-buy-organic/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>My Fascinating Backyard: Spiny Backed Orb Weaver Spider + Spider Myths</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/29/my-fascinating-backyard-spiny-backed-orb-weaver-spider-spider-myths/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=my-fascinating-backyard-spiny-backed-orb-weaver-spider-spider-myths</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/29/my-fascinating-backyard-spiny-backed-orb-weaver-spider-spider-myths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 08:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dani Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo taken by Mkullen The other day I almost walked into a spider web that contained a spider that looked bizarre and like nothing else I&#8217;ve ever seen. Its back is white with face-like black markings and it has 6 / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/29/my-fascinating-backyard-spiny-backed-orb-weaver-spider-spider-myths/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>4 out of 5 Fruit Flies Recommend Organic Fruit</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/27/4-out-of-5-fruit-flies-recommend-organic-fruit/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=4-out-of-5-fruit-flies-recommend-organic-fruit</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/27/4-out-of-5-fruit-flies-recommend-organic-fruit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 03:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Propatier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the Stanford meta-analysis indicated that there is no nutritional difference between organic and conventionally grown produce. There has been a avalanche of mediocre and poor scientific papers trying to prove otherwise. These papers have a recurring theme, hormesis. My definition hormesis=plant homeopathy. / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/27/4-out-of-5-fruit-flies-recommend-organic-fruit/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Forrest Fenn&#8217;s Buried Treasure</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/26/forrest-fenns-buried-treasure/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=forrest-fenns-buried-treasure</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/26/forrest-fenns-buried-treasure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan McKinney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An elderly millionaire, a heroic collector to his admirers and a compulsive looter to his detractors, beset by intimations of mortality and contemplating the return of his body to the soil he has spent his life sifting through, assembles a / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/26/forrest-fenns-buried-treasure/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>We Love It! Myths and Legends of Los Angeles</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/25/we-love-it-myths-and-legends-of-los-angeles/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=we-love-it-myths-and-legends-of-los-angeles</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/25/we-love-it-myths-and-legends-of-los-angeles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Rothschild</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The City of Angels. Tinseltown. La la land. Los Angeles carries a reputation that precedes it in all directions, from the beaches full of beautiful people to the working-class barrios of the east side. It’s flocked to by those looking / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/25/we-love-it-myths-and-legends-of-los-angeles/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Colouring the past</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/24/colouring-the-past/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=colouring-the-past</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/24/colouring-the-past/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 07:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruno Van de Casteele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;An image is worth more than a thousand words&#8221;, so goes the saying. And rightly so. As a history enthusiast I am by default interested in reading reports and descriptions from things longtime past. But I&#8217;m most intrigued by photographs that give / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/24/colouring-the-past/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>An Addition to the List of Logical Fallacies</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/23/an-addition-to-the-list-of-logical-fallacies/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=an-addition-to-the-list-of-logical-fallacies</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/23/an-addition-to-the-list-of-logical-fallacies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, I ran across an old classic argument the anti-vaccine people use as a reason not to get vaccines. It takes various forms in how it is presented, but the premise surrounds the fact there are companies and people / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/23/an-addition-to-the-list-of-logical-fallacies/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Polyphasic sleep:More with less?</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/22/polyphasic-sleepmore-with-less/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=polyphasic-sleepmore-with-less</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/22/polyphasic-sleepmore-with-less/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh DeWald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a cliche that despite all the amazing luxuries, time-savers and other conveniences that we have in modern times, the average person still has little “free” time. The tasks we do seem to magically fill all available time so / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/22/polyphasic-sleepmore-with-less/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>5 Things We Mistakenly Believe About Our Bodies</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/22/5-things-we-mistakenly-believe-about-our-bodies/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=5-things-we-mistakenly-believe-about-our-bodies</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/22/5-things-we-mistakenly-believe-about-our-bodies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dani Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s examine a few things that are commonly believed about our bodies but aren&#8217;t actually true. 1. We only use 10% of our brain. We hear this in just about every movie that tries to make any magical power true / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/22/5-things-we-mistakenly-believe-about-our-bodies/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What Students Think of Here Be Dragons</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/21/what-students-think-of-here-be-dragons/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-students-think-of-here-be-dragons</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/21/what-students-think-of-here-be-dragons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Hudson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I discussed previously, I like to use resources from the Skeptoid podcast in my composition classes to foster critical thinking skills. I also use the film Here Be Dragons, as it has the good qualities of being (1) short / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/21/what-students-think-of-here-be-dragons/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Physical Therapy as Good as Surgery?</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/20/physical-therapy-as-good-as-surgery/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=physical-therapy-as-good-as-surgery</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/20/physical-therapy-as-good-as-surgery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 03:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Propatier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a widely reported  federally funded study showing arthroscopic surgery is no better than physical therapy. This is a absolute unequivocal truth. Within a certain point of view. When it comes to science reporting there are always issues with narrative / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/20/physical-therapy-as-good-as-surgery/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Genius of Sherlock Holmes</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/19/the-genius-of-sherlock-holmes/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-genius-of-sherlock-holmes</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/19/the-genius-of-sherlock-holmes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan McKinney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Wikipedia is to be believed, filming resumes this week for series three of the BBC show Sherlock. I have a nearly delirious affection for this show: aside from the dismal second episode, it has been superbly well done, mixing realism / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/19/the-genius-of-sherlock-holmes/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>LENR: A bright future? Part 2</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/19/lenr-a-bright-future-part-2/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=lenr-a-bright-future-part-2</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/19/lenr-a-bright-future-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Weaver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s time to close out my look at LENR. Join me as we take a look at the Weak Nuclear Force, the Weak Interaction Theory and chase down a few references provided by commenters of the last article. The weak / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/19/lenr-a-bright-future-part-2/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Agenda 21: Death by Sustainability?</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/18/agenda-21-death-by-sustainability/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=agenda-21-death-by-sustainability</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/18/agenda-21-death-by-sustainability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Rothschild</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a Friday night in 2021, and you’ve had a long, hard day. Your job of stamping codes on malaria pills bound for developing countries is unsatisfying, but until a position in another section becomes open (and assuming you pass / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/18/agenda-21-death-by-sustainability/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>yellow vase yellow vase yellow vase yellow vase yellow vase &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/17/yellow-vase-yellow-vase-yellow-vase-yellow-vase-yellow-vase/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=yellow-vase-yellow-vase-yellow-vase-yellow-vase-yellow-vase</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/17/yellow-vase-yellow-vase-yellow-vase-yellow-vase-yellow-vase/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 07:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruno Van de Casteele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of those things which amused me during class, was to take two words (I liked &#8220;yellow vase&#8221;) and reiterate it over and over in my head. If you do this at least twenty times, then you&#8217;ll start feeling that / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/17/yellow-vase-yellow-vase-yellow-vase-yellow-vase-yellow-vase/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Anecdotes are never evidence&#8230;unless they&#8217;re your own.</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/16/anecdotes-are-never-evidence-unless-theyre-your-own/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=anecdotes-are-never-evidence-unless-theyre-your-own</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/16/anecdotes-are-never-evidence-unless-theyre-your-own/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In general, skeptics understand the importance of making evidence-based decisions. They look for controlled studies that have been properly conducted and insist that they won&#8217;t accept anecdotes as evidence. In theory that is best practice, but the reality is it&#8217;s downright impossible / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/16/anecdotes-are-never-evidence-unless-theyre-your-own/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Trusting the Internet</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/16/trusting-the-internet/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=trusting-the-internet</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/16/trusting-the-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks back, I stirred up a bit of controversy when some people thought I was showing a liberal bias by debunking some social media posts. One of the sources I generally pick to make a quick check on / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/16/trusting-the-internet/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>MercolaWatch:Aspartame and milk</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/15/mercolawatchaspartame-and-milk/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=mercolawatchaspartame-and-milk</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/15/mercolawatchaspartame-and-milk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh DeWald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I swear I try really hard to avoid talking about aspartame all the time but it seems to be a lost cause. For the past few weeks, my news feed has been filled with various articles claiming that the food / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/15/mercolawatchaspartame-and-milk/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pseudo Alert! Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/15/pseudo-alert-complimentary-and-alternative-medicine-cam/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=pseudo-alert-complimentary-and-alternative-medicine-cam</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/15/pseudo-alert-complimentary-and-alternative-medicine-cam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dani Johnson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Complementary and alternative medicine practices are harmful to society because they take money from cancer patients that they could be using on real cancer treatments that actually work. Doctors spend years in college and medical school and even longer in / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/15/pseudo-alert-complimentary-and-alternative-medicine-cam/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bee Venom and HIV are we getting stung again?</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/13/bee-venom-hiv-cure-or-are-we-getting-stung-again/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=bee-venom-hiv-cure-or-are-we-getting-stung-again</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/13/bee-venom-hiv-cure-or-are-we-getting-stung-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 03:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Propatier</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Medicine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bee venom therapy is an alternative medical treatment. Like many alternative treatments it has little plausibility, poor research, and primarily anecdotal evidence. Benefit appears in research only when controls are poor. In well blinded and controlled studies the &#8220;effects&#8221; disappear. Bee therapy / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/13/bee-venom-hiv-cure-or-are-we-getting-stung-again/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Decalogue Stone</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/12/the-decalogue-stone/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-decalogue-stone</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/12/the-decalogue-stone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 04:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan McKinney</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pseudoscience]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine recently drew my attention to an article in the online magazine Tablet concerning one of those minor archaeological puzzles that I had once known about and then forgot: an eighty-ton rock in the New Mexico desert, known as / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/12/the-decalogue-stone/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why North Korea Can&#8217;t Flatten Seoul</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/11/why-north-korea-cant-flatten-seoul/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=why-north-korea-cant-flatten-seoul</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/11/why-north-korea-cant-flatten-seoul/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Rothschild</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[kim jong un]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://skeptoid.com/blog/?p=7276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past few weeks, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has been on a run of lunacy nearly unrivaled in the history of the division of Korea. He’s made the news by threatening the US with preemptive nuclear attack, / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/11/why-north-korea-cant-flatten-seoul/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Telescope in the sky</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/10/telescope-in-the-sky/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=telescope-in-the-sky</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/10/telescope-in-the-sky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 08:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruno Van de Casteele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://skeptoid.com/blog/?p=7233</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine that you can get your hands on a Boeing 747. What would you do? Well, probably not what NASA did: they cut a 10-by-10 foot hole in the back of the airplane, and installed a big telescope in it. / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/10/telescope-in-the-sky/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The REAL scientific method&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/09/the-real-scientific-method/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-real-scientific-method</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/09/the-real-scientific-method/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 16:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Jones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years I have judged many science fairs, and it&#8217;s an opportunity that I really enjoy.   I have found that the best participants have a strong understanding of the scientific method and have thought carefully about how to / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/09/the-real-scientific-method/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>What is Energy?</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/09/what-is-energy/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-is-energy</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/09/what-is-energy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 15:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hall</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://skeptoid.com/blog/?p=7266</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I am putting out a call for some comments. I am currently teaching my physics classes about energy. The term energy can also be, and is often misused by those peddling various pseudoscientific nonsense. Energy is not an easy / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/09/what-is-energy/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Powers of Ten</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/08/powers-of-ten/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=powers-of-ten</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/08/powers-of-ten/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 02:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dani Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe my co-workers and I have been passing an awful cold around lately. It&#8217;s my turn, now, so please pardon my brevity. If there is one thing in the entire internet that absolutely every single person should see, it&#8217;s / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/08/powers-of-ten/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Skeptics &#8220;proven wrong&#8221; in films and television</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/08/skeptics-proven-wrong-in-films-and-television/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=skeptics-proven-wrong-in-films-and-television</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/08/skeptics-proven-wrong-in-films-and-television/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh DeWald</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paranormal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently thinking about the cases in movies and television shows where the skeptic/unbeliever is shown to be wrong and that there really is some supernatural events/miracles/aliens/paranormal powers at work in the world of the show. Whether or not / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/08/skeptics-proven-wrong-in-films-and-television/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>CPR Denied</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/06/cpr-denied/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=cpr-denied</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/06/cpr-denied/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 04:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Propatier</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The national news story about a 87 year old in cardiac arrest and a bystanders refusal to perform CPR attracted my interest. The reported facts as follows. &#8220;The deceased, identified as Lorraine Bayless, collapsed in the dining room of the Glenwood / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/06/cpr-denied/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Anit-Viral Ads: Lucky Strikes</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/06/anit-viral-ads-lucky-strikes/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=anit-viral-ads-lucky-strikes</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/06/anit-viral-ads-lucky-strikes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Haupt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advertisements upset me. They seem designed to appeal to the misinformed, uninformed, or gullible; preying upon every emotional and logical weakness they can find. I often find myself insulted on behalf of humanity that the people behind these schemes think / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/06/anit-viral-ads-lucky-strikes/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>On Knowing the Names of Things</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/05/on-knowing-the-names-of-things/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=on-knowing-the-names-of-things</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/05/on-knowing-the-names-of-things/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 06:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brendan McKinney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jared Diamond, in Guns, Germs, and Steel, relates the time he was traveling with Foré tribesmen in the New Guinean highlands and a rival tribe blocked off their route, trapping them in the jungle without food. One of the party left / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/05/on-knowing-the-names-of-things/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ghost Illusions From Metamaterials</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/05/ghost-illusions-from-metamaterials/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ghost-illusions-from-metamaterials</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/05/ghost-illusions-from-metamaterials/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Weaver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the National University of Singapore have released details from an upcoming paper (to be published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials this month) about using metamaterials to generate controlled “ghost” images of an object. While not yet done / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/05/ghost-illusions-from-metamaterials/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hello? Is It Nazi Me You&#8217;re Looking For? ABC&#8217;s ZERO HOUR In Memoriam</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/04/hello-is-it-nazi-me-youre-looking-for-abc-zero-hour/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=hello-is-it-nazi-me-youre-looking-for-abc-zero-hour</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/04/hello-is-it-nazi-me-youre-looking-for-abc-zero-hour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Rothschild</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When ABC announced it was producing a series called ZERO HOUR, revolving around a massive conspiracy, with a skeptic for a main character, naturally, I was excited. Then I was able to get a copy of the pilot script (through / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/04/hello-is-it-nazi-me-youre-looking-for-abc-zero-hour/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile learning</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/03/mobile-learning/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=mobile-learning</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/03/mobile-learning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 08:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruno Van de Casteele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When do you listen to podcasts such as Skeptoid? I listed to my favorite science and skeptical podcasts in my car, when commuting. I&#8217;ve heard that others do it while jogging or cycling, or just before falling asleep (I&#8217;m assuming / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/03/mobile-learning/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Atmosphere Is Not A Water Vapor Hotel</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/02/the-atmosphere-is-not-a-water-vapor-hotel/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-atmosphere-is-not-a-water-vapor-hotel</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Hall</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[air as a sponge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[atmospheric science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dalton's Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dew point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humidity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideal Gas Law]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[relative humidity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saturation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vapor pressure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water vapor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us have probably experienced a warm, humid day in the summer. I imagine some of us in the northern hemisphere are right now wishing for one of those days; a day with the air thick where the sweat / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/02/the-atmosphere-is-not-a-water-vapor-hotel/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Chemophobia</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/02/6916/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=6916</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/02/6916/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad Jones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a chemist there&#8217;s almost nothing that annoys me as much as chemophobia; the belief that chemicals &#8211; especially synthetic chemicals &#8211; are inherently bad. In supermarkets I see things labeled &#8220;all natural&#8221; or &#8220;organic&#8221; and cringe. What&#8217;s in a / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/02/6916/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>My Fascinating Back Yard: Dragonflies</title>
		<link>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/02/my-fascinating-back-yard-dragonflies/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=my-fascinating-back-yard-dragonflies</link>
		<comments>http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/02/my-fascinating-back-yard-dragonflies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 08:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dani Johnson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[damselfly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dragonfly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://skeptoid.com/blog/?p=7095</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As scared as I am of creepy-crawlies, I have always been simultaneously fascinated by them. The creepier they look the more I want to look at them. Now, I don&#8217;t go as far as touching them with my bare hands, / <a href="http://skeptoid.com/blog/2013/03/02/my-fascinating-back-yard-dragonflies/"><span class="read-more">read more...</span></a>]]></description>
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