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What's New?

Recent Entries or Modifications

for last month's changes see 'What's New?' in the most recent Newsletter

 Entry   Date 
2010
 Status*
psychology

reader comments: Should Governments Fund Faith-Based Groups?

1 Sept update

new

climate change deniers

atheism

31 Aug update

update

argument from design

autism/vaccines

30 Aug revised

update

Patience Worth
 
23 Aug new
affirming the consequent and denying the antecedent

open-mindedness

21 Aug new

 

update

anchoring effect

anecdotal evidence

victim soul

publication bias

19 Aug update

update

update

update

acupuncture

Don't be a dick video

18 Aug update

new

Penn & Teller on the anti-vaccination movement

wi-fi scares

17 Aug new

update

reader comments: EFT

superstition

penile plethysmograph

integrative medicine

16 Aug new

update

update

update

reader comments: Amazing! Electrifying! Stories
 
15 Aug new
Skeptimedia: It's not psychokinesis

Skeptimedia: Amazing! Electrifying! Stories

14 Aug new

new

Lourdes

Barnum effect

13 Aug update

update

alchemy
 
12 Aug update
Skeptimedia: Dying to tell the truth
 
11 Aug new
What's the harm? Chechen Islam rears its ugly head

climate change deniers

agnosticism

atheism

Chinese version of "Creating Your Own Pseudoscience"

10 Aug new
 

update

revised

revised

new

Bulgarian seers
 
8 Aug update
dowsing

chupacabra

6 Aug update

update

prayer

anti-vaccination movement

5 Aug update

update

reader comments: 9/11 conspiracy
 
4 Aug new
reader comments: The Invisible Gorilla

reader comments: cognitive dissonance

acupuncture

3 Aug new

new

Newsletter
v. 9 No. 8

What's the harm? Another infant killed by faith healing

2 Aug new

update

 

 *legend:
 new
= new entry;
 revised = I've rewritten part or all of the entry  or added new material (new material will be set off by [new]...[/new]);
 update
= I've corrected an error or I've added a  link or a new reference, which is usually noted  by new in the entry.

elsewhere

Dragon*Con
September 3-6, 2010
Atlanta, Georgia

14th European Skeptics Congress
17-19 September, 2010
Budapest, Hungary

Reflections on a Decade of Paranormal Investigation
September 24-25, 2010
Center for Inquiry Indianapolis, IN 

Free Inquiry Conference
Secular Humanism’s Next 30 Years

October 7-10, 2010
Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, CA

TAM London 2010
16-17 Oct
Hilton London Metropole

TAM! Australia 2010 sold out*
26-28 Nov
Sydney

 

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