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Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Llandrindod Wells any more


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Chris, 2018-06-26, 03:43 PM

As Britain bakes, the BBC has film of a dust devil in Wales: 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-4...wells-heat


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Vegetarianism and veganism


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Brian, 2018-06-26, 07:35 AM

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Some science journals that claim to peer review papers do not do so


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Sci, 2018-06-25, 11:49 PM

Some science journals that claim to peer review papers do not do so


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A sceptical critique of Beischel and Schwartz (2007)


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Chris, 2018-06-25, 10:10 PM

I came across this while checking to see whether there were any other sceptical blogs worth including in the wiki listing. 

It's a bit old (2010), but I thought it was interesting in that practically every criticism of the paper is fallacious:
https://skepfeeds.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/talking-t

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Jonathan Wells: Zombie Science


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Ninshub, 2018-06-25, 08:29 PM

This is a presentation of Wells' 2017 book, Zombie Science, which seems to be an update, at least in this presentation, of his Icons of Evolution.
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In his new book Zombie Science, biologist Jonathan Wells asks a simple question: If the icons of evolution were just innocent textbook errors,

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My Pesky Scotsman


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Stan Woolley, 2018-06-25, 01:10 PM

THE SITUATION

After arriving home this morning after dropping Maeve off, on entering my part of the estate there was a guy parked in a van unloading stuff. As he was parked alongside the kerb, and the car belonging to the lady he was delivering to was parked at an angle in the parking space opposit

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Let's complain


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Chris, 2018-06-25, 11:27 AM

Over at Skeptiko, "Number 22" complained about an article in the Express (UK) quoting Sean Carroll's claim that the "laws of physics" forbid post mortem survival:
http://www.skeptiko-forum.com/threads/se...roll.4160/

Setting aside the merits of the argument (which I think are very limited, as th

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PsienceQuest Wiki


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Chris, 2018-06-25, 08:52 AM

A little while ago Laird set up a wiki section that could be edited by members of the forum. As an experiment, I've set up a page containing a small list of blogs about psi and the paranormal:
https://psiencequest.net/wiki/Blogs

I'm sure there are plenty more relevant blogs online, but on the ot

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Robert Lanza - biocentrism vs. the "dumb universe" paradigm


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Ninshub, 2018-06-25, 01:53 AM

[i]Speaking with the authority of a distinguished scientific career, Robert Lanza presents the case for abandoning the "dumb universe" paradigm and going beyond the illusion of our individual separatism. In a presentation that inspires optimism for the dawn of a new age of science, he explains the i

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Post formatting questions


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Ninshub, 2018-06-24, 07:32 PM

Does anyone know why posts tend to create extra spaces between what you include in your posts - text, images, videos, quotes? No matter how you try to squeeze them tightly together, the formatting seems to want to create extra spaces.


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