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Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Pseudoscience: Blue Monday - a depressing day of nonsense science (again) 2 mr blur Jan 2013 Jan 2013 1 2345
Cancer linked to polio vaccine 7 TrogL Jan 2013 Jan 2013 0 3103
Do you have Forer’s Disease? 4 cleanhippie Jan 2013 Jan 2013 6 2637
US has no monopoly on snake oil merchants... 9 TZ Jan 2013 Jan 2013 0 3437
The apocalyptic mind-set 13 Tobin S. Jan 2013 Jan 2013 1 4531
Online communication biases upon the public perception of science 1 TZ Jan 2013 Jan 2013 3 1992
EPIC FAIL! Exposing a clairvoyant in 11 seconds. 3 cleanhippie Oct 2012 Jan 2013 8 2916
Homeopathic Scotch Introduced to Market 4 MineralMan Jan 2013 Jan 2013 5 2426
Did you know that I'm responsible for Sandy Hook? 2 TZ Jan 2013 Jan 2013 1 2359
Struck off MMR doctor handed award for 'lifetime achievement in quackery' 3 mr blur Dec 2012 Jan 2013 8 2217
I think I understand the anti-psychiatry BS on DU, now 5 Odin2005 Jan 2013 Jan 2013 2 3296
Advent Calendar - Final Day. This special day, what could possibly be behind the last window but..? 2 mr blur Dec 2012 Jan 2013 2 2215
A message from The Prophet (FBUH) 2 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 1 2600
This feels bizarre - the infamous Infowars wesbite links to my post to debunk something 3 muriel_volestrangler Dec 2012 Dec 2012 3 2606
Celebrities taken to task in annual round-up of scientific nonsense 0 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 2 1846
Advent Calendar - Day 23 1 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 2 1786
Advent Calendar - Day 22 0 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 1 1651
Chuck Hagel is a darwinst! 3 Missn-Hitch Dec 2012 Dec 2012 0 1940
Advent Calendar - Day 21 1 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 2 1896
Advent Calendar - Day 20 2 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 1 1873
Advent Calendar - Day 17 6 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 1 2747
Remember Matthew? Well guess who else is cashing in on the suffering in Newtown? 4 beam me up scottie Dec 2012 Dec 2012 0 2555
Advent Calendar - Day 15 1 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 0 1920
Advent Calendar - Day 18 2 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 4 2225
Here comes the "video games cause school shootings" nonsense. 4 Odin2005 Dec 2012 Dec 2012 1 2697
The real cause of the Conn shooting: Vaccines!!!! 2 TZ Dec 2012 Dec 2012 0 2031
Advent Calendar - Day 19 (big pic) 0 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 1 1508
Advent Calendar - Day 16 0 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 1 1737
Advent Calendar - Day 14 0 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 2 2462
Advent Calendar - Day 13 0 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 1 1900

Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Advent Calendar - Day 12 2 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 1 1940
Interest in UFOs apparently declining 10 InsultComicDog Nov 2012 Dec 2012 0 7064
129 recs for a made up press release claiming Fox News viewers' average IQ is 80 12 muriel_volestrangler Dec 2012 Dec 2012 1 3279
Advent Calendar - Day 11 2 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 1 1767
Advent Calendar - Day 10 1 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 1 1759
For my birthday this year I asked for a flu shot. 16 beam me up scottie Dec 2012 Dec 2012 0 3843
Mark Cuban, basketball owner and skeptic! 1 TZ Nov 2012 Dec 2012 0 2549
Advent Calendar - Day 9 0 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 1 1635
Advent Calendar - Day 8 0 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 1 1658
Advent Calendar - Day 3 3 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 2 2014
Advent Calendar - Day 6 1 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 1 1849
Advent Calendar - Day 7 0 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 1 1472
Advent Calendar - Day 5 4 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 2 2435
Throwing Cold Water On the Singurality Idea 7 toddmiller Nov 2012 Dec 2012 0 3128
Woo and BS on history message boards 5 Odin2005 Nov 2012 Dec 2012 1 2801
Advent Calendar - Day 4 0 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 2 2061
How not to start an article 0 Coyotl Dec 2012 Dec 2012 0 1661
If you read Age of Autism, you'd learn 2 Dr. Strange Nov 2012 Dec 2012 1 2025
What's up with all the recent sasquatch and yeti DNA "studies"? 1 struggle4progress Dec 2012 Dec 2012 0 2509
Goodbye everyone 5 salvorhardin Dec 2012 Dec 2012 0 2360
Advent Calendar - Day 2 1 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 1 1747
The Skeptic Group Advent Calendar - Day 1 1 mr blur Dec 2012 Dec 2012 3 1789
What's the craziest fucking woo you've ever heard? [View all] 120 laconicsax Jan 2012 Nov 2012 4 42612
Eric Schwartz will be performing in Boston Monday, November 19th 7-9PM at Tommy Doyle's 1 Ian David Nov 2012 Nov 2012 1 1834
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Ian David Nov 2012 Nov 2012 0 1386
"That universe is driven by electromagnetic energy carried on vast plasma currents" 7 muriel_volestrangler Nov 2012 Nov 2012 1 2911
Acupuncture trial for fatigue lacks placebo group, is positive 2 cleanhippie Nov 2012 Nov 2012 0 2078
Something really annoying about technophobes I have noticed... 3 Odin2005 Nov 2012 Nov 2012 1 3069
The woo-woos are already attacking the Organic food study. 8 Odin2005 Sep 2012 Nov 2012 0 4282
The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe 1 muriel_volestrangler Nov 2012 Nov 2012 1 2056

Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Vaccines: opinions are not facts 14 cleanhippie Oct 2012 Nov 2012 5 3810
Baba Brinkman is Back... 0 xocet Oct 2012 Oct 2012 0 1762
Alfred Russel Wallace, 1907: Is Mars habitable? 1 muriel_volestrangler Oct 2012 Oct 2012 1 2034
Our favourite "you create your own reality" troll is back 10 Heddi Oct 2012 Oct 2012 0 3159
Pair of conservative science authors on C-Span 2 (Book TV), on now 5 We People Oct 2012 Oct 2012 0 3520
Two Pillars of Skepticism — Leon Jaroff and Paul Kurtz — Died This Weekend 0 struggle4progress Oct 2012 Oct 2012 2 1798
"Ancient Aliens Debunked" - over three hours of yummy skeptic goodness 5 EvolveOrConvolve Oct 2012 Oct 2012 2 3970
can this bee explained 2 left is right Oct 2012 Oct 2012 0 1946
Okay. I'm thinking I need a bunch of skeptics here. 5 SheilaT Oct 2012 Oct 2012 3 2656
Study linking GM crops and cancer questioned. 5 Odin2005 Sep 2012 Oct 2012 5 3253
Research suggests that evolution sometimes meant becoming simpler, not more complex 0 Viva_La_Revolution Sep 2012 Sep 2012 2 1839
Note to tin-foilers, this is what an ACTUAL conspiracy looks like: 1 Odin2005 Sep 2012 Sep 2012 0 2649
Wisdom of Chopra.com 10 onager Sep 2012 Sep 2012 7 3574
I really hate the "It's MY PERSPECTIVE" shit. 32 Odin2005 Aug 2012 Sep 2012 2 9193
Long Island Medium Is Fake (Woo-Woo Song) 1 onager Sep 2012 Sep 2012 1 2873
Apparently 40 years of neuroscience research is a lie because... 3 Odin2005 Aug 2012 Sep 2012 1 3159
"Scientist" finds that the Earth isn't rotating. 21 laconicsax Mar 2012 Sep 2012 5 7638
Jeremy Hunt, Health Secretary (UK), thinks homeopathy works 3 LeftishBrit Sep 2012 Sep 2012 2 2372
Wilhelm Reich and the Sexual Revolution 5 salvorhardin Aug 2012 Sep 2012 0 3770
Wisdom on demand 14 caraher Jun 2012 Sep 2012 4 4075
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