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Skeptic Summary #187

Expelled (of course), blinkies, altmed, a big pony and more!

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed! (Part 2) - Just when you thought it was safe…

Phoenix Lights - Now you see ’em…

Editor’s Choice: Neti pots, sinus disease, and migraines - Well, he seemed serious for a while.

Inside Creationism’s Trojan Horse - This talk by Barbara Forrest at the Center for Inquiry, is some pre-Expelled stuff. This title of this talk comes from her book, co-written with Paul R. Gross, which can be read online.

While there is nothing exactly new here, this is an in-depth perspective from one of the expert witnesses at the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case. Her talk also goes into some detail on the evolution of the ID movement itself. The talk is often funny and always fascinating.

While at the CFI digital media site, be sure to check out other films being offered online, in full.

Also, visit Barbara Forrest’s website, Creationism’s Trojan Horse.

Sunday: Our chat host may be returning to work on May 4th!

Wednesday: As June is getting rather close now, chat started up with talk of the next TAM. Then things switched over to recent activity at the SFN, as well as how the forum seems to have slowed a bit. Mixed in all of this was talk of Kansas vs. Darwin. Kil talked of creating his own podcast, but unfortunately there are not many who can translate Kilbonics. Then some tech talk ended things for this week.

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Bonk: the Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, by Mary Roach.



“In her previous books, Stiff and a follow-up, Spook, Mary Roach set out to make creepy topics (cadavers, the afterlife) fun. In Bonk, she turns to sex, covering such territory as dried animal excreta used as vaginal ‘drying agents’; a rat’s tail ‘lost’ in a penis; and a man named William Harvey, patent-holder for a rolling toaster-size metal box outfitted with a motorized ‘resiliently pliable artificial penis.’ In short, she takes an entertaining topic and showcases its creepier side. And then she makes the creepy funny. Intended as much for amusement as for enlightenment, Bonk is Roach’s foray into the world of sex research, mostly from Alfred Kinsey onward, but occasionally harking back to the ancient Greeks and medievals (equally unenlightened)… Roach can’t be faulted for having fun with sex. Even if purely for the purposes of research.”

— Pamela Paul, New York Times

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