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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: They are there. It's called "PBS".
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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Then they'd better not accept anything, because anything can get twisted around and perverted. Best to just stay ignorant of everything.
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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: I had a college course called "The Nature of Scientific Inquiry" which covered pseudoscience and logical fallacies. Zhimbo taught a winter term class in undergrad called "Science and Unreason". Since both of us have a long and abiding interest in such things, once we get settled somewhere, we plan on joining/starting a skeptic's group and hopefully getting such a topic going in the local schools.
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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: I can't tell you how many times I've had the discussion about homeopathic remedies with people. I also remember working with an otherwise bright woman who believed that the phone psychic experiences she had were authentic. Soon after our conversation, the Psychic Friends Network went out of business. I asked my coworker why it was that PFN didn't forsee their financial troubles, and she became genuinely angry with me. Another coworker at the same place, another otherwise intelligent woman, adamantly insisted that one of the actors paying a "Munchkin" on The Wizard of Oz movie hanged himself on the set and that they were visible in the background in one of the shots. I was very skeptical, so I investigated on the internet and found out it was an urban myth. I went so far as to find, and show her, a frame-by-frame of the scene in question. She was also quite annoyed and angry to be shown to be mistaken. One would have thought that she would have been relieved that this poor actor hadn't killed himself. People are much more interested in feeling special than doubting that they are. People are much more attracted to drama and excitement than the mundane and explained. People would much rather feel right than actually go to the trouble of finding out if they are right. People like certainty much more than doubt, they like comfortable lies much more than uncomfortable truths. This message has been edited by schrafinator, 03-02-2006 09:39 AM
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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
We need another Sagan.
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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
You take what your doctor or lawyer says on faith?
What about if they said that they needed to cut off your nose because you had a cold?
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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Me too. I live in New England as of 2 weeks ago. I had to say goodbye to the Deli.
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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: I wonder at that. I mean, apes are so cool.
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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
Hanover.
Omniverous and I were chatting the other night and we both expressed interest in a EvC New England picnic this summer. Interested?
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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
Oh my, EVERY EvC-er who cares to come is invited, for heaven's sake.
It's just that, I think, quite a few of us live in New England. Well, Percy, if you're too scared, then me Zhimbo and Omni and Flies will just have a picnic without you and we can speculate on if you are the wierd guy who keeps driving by, really slowly, holding up his copies of Origin of Species and the KJV of the Bible.
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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
Believe me, I'd jump at the chance to live in the old one.
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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
I think it's sometime in July, and it should last just long enough to keep the grill lit.
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nator Member (Idle past 2170 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
since when does it need to be warm out for anyone to get lit?
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