This is either the worst bit of science reporting I’ve seen in a long time, or else the worst bit of science I’ve seen in a long time… AND the worst bit of science reporting, for not pointing that out.  They wanted to define evil, so they:
He and his research team began developing their computer [...]

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After being inspired by TAM I thought I would give a go at a skeptical pet type blog. I only have one entry so far, but a bunch of ideas.
Not that I’m totally blaming World Of Warcraft for my inaction…
Anyways, here is the link.
http://petskeptic.blogspot.com
Any ideas, proofreading and suggestions would be fantabulous.

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I lived in campus housing my first two years at university. I did not drink or smoke, and had a much easier time forming friendships with women.
The school, in its infinite wisdom, paired me up with a male near-alcoholic smoker (who also had no sense of smell due to a facial injury received while “vansurfing”–standing [...]

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In his Theaetetus Plato argues that philosophers are free while lawyers are slaves. What he had in mind was that philosophers, insofar as they are philosophers (lovers of wisdom), follow their reason wherever it might lead, while lawyers are assigned an arbitrary initial position and are required to bend reason and evidence accordingly. Christian “philosophers” (apologists), for example, are God’s lawyers.

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Here’s another one for the I-refuse-to-comment-on-your-point-til-you stop-lying-in-your-arguments file.  I’m not a big fan of music / game / movie piracy (though I’ll admit my own hypocricy runs to downloading tv shows that have already been shown free-to-air) but in this article Ben Goldacre systematically destroys some statistics being used by the recording industry to “prove” [...]

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This is an interesting article about the British government’s release of its UFO files.  One of the most interesting things about it - I thought - is that they are releasing the files because they are receiving so many Freedom of Information requests from “Ufologists” that they are spending all of their time sending copies [...]

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The Ministry of Skepticism is here.

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