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Skeptic Summary #135

Self-delusion, mastication, we're needed, activists, woolly thinking and more!

The benefits of self-delusion - And in this corner…

Something to chew on… - Not food for thought as much as meat, fresh out of the grinder.

Editor’s Choice: We need skeptics - Yes, yes you do.

At the forefront? - Looking for the skeptic’s skeptic.

The Woolly-Thinker’s Guide to Rhetoric

Here you’ll find top tips for besting your enemies. As employed by the world’s best woolly-thinkers. Learn, for example: how to play the ‘biological reductionist’ card to maximum effect; how ‘language games’ can help you out of a sticky situation; and how lucky it is that ‘truth’ is relative to particular discourses (especially yours).

Have fun!

Sunday: Sorting out time: daylight savings and stuff; what is corned beef? St. Patrick’s Day; annexing Canada in preparation for the Global Warming to secure food production; big welcome back to an absent-of-late SFN-elder: Trish! Also: voodoo cow requires chicken sacrifices… Record companies, royalties and artists getting screwed over; house morgage and economic responsibilities.

Wednesday: With a special guest, Robert Lancaster, attending chat, much of the talk was focused on none other than Sylvia Browne. How much money she makes, jewelry she sells, even her cruise. A new website, GoSylviaBrowne was discussed, as well as other web design atrocities. As the night proceeded, topic turned to general debunking: why it’s so much fun for some, and just plain dull to others. Also, should critical thinking skills be introduced into the school curriculum? This lead into a dialog on religion and the “Angry Atheists” movement, as well as which historical events, if any, should be credited to religion.

Come chat with us.

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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out and the Meaning of It All, by Richard Feynman.



“This book is a collection of Feynman's most memorable essays and speeches, in which he talks about the Manhattan project, his childhood, the future of physics, the unscientific nature of society, among other topics. This is a book for the non scientist, as there is very little physics required, and it talks as much about the future of science as it does about the future of society. ”

— Denis Minev

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