Forum: Skeptoid
7th January 2017, 01:41 PM
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Forum: Economics, Business and Finance
26th January 2016, 10:18 AM
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Maybe it's time to invest in other...
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Maybe it's time to invest in other lubricants?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2016/01/25/stop-sexually-harassing-ammon-bundy-and-his-fellow-oregon-occupiers/
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
25th January 2016, 06:08 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,315
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
25th January 2016, 05:05 PM
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Replies: 650
Views: 82,642
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
24th June 2012, 09:34 AM
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Replies: 61
Views: 7,488
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
24th June 2012, 09:26 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 705
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
24th June 2012, 04:51 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 705
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
24th June 2012, 02:13 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 705
Cyanide-producing grass?!
From yesterday's CBS website: GM grass linked to Texas cattle deaths, http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57459357/gm-grass-linked-to-texas-cattle-deaths/
Apparently a form of genetically...
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
21st May 2012, 10:26 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 10,428
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Forum: Social Issues & Current Events
21st May 2012, 02:13 AM
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Replies: 1,093
Views: 75,205
Some interesting statistics about 'Whale Wars'...
Some interesting statistics about 'Whale Wars' from imdb (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1195419/reviews?filter=chrono).
http://s16.postimage.org/stnetuapf/snap.gif
Girls < 18 love it, women >= 45...
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Forum: Religion and Philosophy
21st May 2012, 01:44 AM
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Replies: 104
Views: 7,831
Define "growing up".
Have you lost your...
Define "growing up".
Have you lost your parents?
Granted. Seconded.
Logical fallacy. Absence of evidence doesn't provide evidence of absence, blabalala.
On Craig: wherever reason may lead,...
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
21st May 2012, 01:18 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 10,428
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
19th May 2012, 09:09 AM
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Replies: 167
Views: 16,126
US folks can probably tell at a glance how many...
US folks can probably tell at a glance how many of the TV series on this list (http://www.imdb.com/search/title?num_votes=5000,&sort=user_rating,desc&title_type=tv_series)) were produced by HBO, or...
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
19th May 2012, 08:26 AM
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Replies: 61
Views: 7,488
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
19th May 2012, 08:16 AM
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Replies: 61
Views: 7,488
In German it's a foreign word anyway. If you're...
In German it's a foreign word anyway. If you're above 30 you lean towards the French, otherwise the device is American, but the action it performs can be rooten or rowten. Rooten sounds nicer.
Can...
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
19th May 2012, 07:43 AM
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Replies: 61
Views: 7,488
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
19th May 2012, 07:28 AM
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Replies: 11
Views: 3,605
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
19th May 2012, 07:02 AM
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Replies: 61
Views: 7,488
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
19th May 2012, 06:49 AM
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Replies: 5
Views: 2,248
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
19th May 2012, 06:29 AM
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Replies: 167
Views: 16,126
Game of Thrones wouldn't be known around the...
Game of Thrones wouldn't be known around the world, if it wasn't for filesharing. People talk about it because they've seen and liked it. That's a lot of free hype for HBO, a fact the content...
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
7th May 2012, 03:14 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 3,658
MarkMonitor is very well placed in the market....
MarkMonitor is very well placed in the market. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarkMonitor), half of the Fortune top 100 companies use some of its services, and 22 percent of the...
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
7th May 2012, 01:58 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 3,658
Latest in the "Internet kill switch"...
Latest in the "Internet kill switch" debate/conspiracy, but raises an interesting point: Why does a company such as Google - which is a domain registrar itself - outsource that privilege to an Anti...
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Forum: Computers and the Internet
21st April 2012, 10:05 AM
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Replies: 310
Views: 20,418
You Windows guys stole the 7 from Apple.
...
You Windows guys stole the 7 from Apple.
http://www.miguelcarrasco.net/miguelcarrasco/WindowsLiveWriter/AppleCrashTop10Images_12FAA/bomb_s_thumb.jpg
I love corporate multitasking!
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Forum: Skeptoid
10th October 2011, 12:21 PM
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Replies: 210
Views: 54,692
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Forum: Book Reviews
24th August 2011, 07:05 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 8,352
The podcast Greek Goddess heard...
The podcast Greek Goddess heard (http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=6497454&postcount=2) was probably the New Books in History interview with the author, David Aaronovitch:...
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
24th August 2011, 05:44 PM
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Replies: 151
Views: 17,835
Yeah, polytheism generally makes you much...
Yeah, polytheism generally makes you much healthier and more creative. :D
And that environmental aspect I mentioned...
http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/2631/norsereligiousworld.gif
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Forum: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
24th August 2011, 04:53 PM
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Replies: 151
Views: 17,835
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Forum: Skeptoid
24th August 2011, 02:24 PM
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Replies: 210
Views: 54,692
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
13th November 2010, 01:53 PM
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Replies: 46
Views: 8,190
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Forum: Book Reviews
13th November 2010, 12:48 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 4,681
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Forum: Book Reviews
13th November 2010, 12:37 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 18,640
It's a bit long-winded at times, but I love...
It's a bit long-winded at times, but I love Foucault's Pendulum, too. No need to slam Dan Brown, though - I dig good conspiracies as long as they're relatively short and simple. I'm also a confessed...
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Forum: History, Literature, and the Arts
9th November 2010, 08:39 PM
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Replies: 135
Views: 8,168
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
9th November 2010, 07:59 PM
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Replies: 46
Views: 8,190
Most definitions of entropy for non-physicists...
Most definitions of entropy for non-physicists (like me) are a bit, er, misleading. Or simply incomprehensible. Including the one on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy).
Entropy is a...
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Forum: The Repository
9th November 2010, 04:31 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 49,257
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Forum: The Repository
9th November 2010, 10:59 AM
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Replies: 51
Views: 53,494
This "professor without a brain"-story sounds...
This "professor without a brain"-story sounds very much like a 19th century argument to me. It would be the most likely period in time where a "scientificist" would try to disprove (does he really?)...
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Forum: The Repository
9th November 2010, 08:23 AM
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Replies: 177
Views: 119,588
All humans are emotionally dependant on other...
All humans are emotionally dependant on other humans, communal beliefs and prejudices (apart from sociopaths, but even they don't live in a void). That's why science has a system in place to counter...
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Forum: Skeptoid
9th November 2010, 07:32 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,647
I haven't yet served myself with a full dose of...
I haven't yet served myself with a full dose of Yuck, agh, Icke. It's always been through an intermediary, like Jon Ronson, who has called him a really nice guy. I have seen something from Alex Jones...
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Forum: Skeptoid
9th November 2010, 06:58 AM
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Replies: 10
Views: 1,534
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Forum: Skeptoid
9th November 2010, 06:38 AM
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Replies: 210
Views: 54,692
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Forum: Science, Mathematics, Medicine, and Technology
2nd July 2010, 08:52 AM
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Replies: 0
Views: 975
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Forum: USA Politics
2nd July 2010, 07:42 AM
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Replies: 303
Views: 10,928
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Forum: Skeptoid
2nd July 2010, 07:09 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 2,516
Yeah, not everybody can be expected to read...
Yeah, not everybody can be expected to read Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. ;)
More recently, I've discovered (again) the Depleted Uranium controversy, and this makes every Skeptoid episode...
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Forum: USA Politics
2nd July 2010, 06:34 AM
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Replies: 303
Views: 10,928
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Forum: USA Politics
2nd July 2010, 06:30 AM
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Replies: 303
Views: 10,928
Yes, and that's why I posted it.
"You" people...
Yes, and that's why I posted it.
"You" people are just complacently sitting on your asses. :mad:
Check the other link, to the Uranium Medical Research Centre (http://www.umrc.net/), and don't...
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Forum: USA Politics
2nd July 2010, 06:22 AM
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Replies: 303
Views: 10,928
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Forum: USA Politics
2nd July 2010, 06:20 AM
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Replies: 303
Views: 10,928
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Forum: USA Politics
2nd July 2010, 06:18 AM
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Replies: 303
Views: 10,928
Try sneaking a used shell into a research...
Try sneaking a used shell into a research laboratory. Chances are good you'll get arrested and fined for "exposing the public to radiation" - if you're German.
At least this is what one German...
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Forum: USA Politics
2nd July 2010, 06:02 AM
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Replies: 303
Views: 10,928
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Forum: USA Politics
2nd July 2010, 05:49 AM
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Replies: 303
Views: 10,928
I'm not fixated on the idea it's depleted...
I'm not fixated on the idea it's depleted uranium, but the people seriously affected by this clearly deserve a sound answer.
Conversely, the British Ministery of Defense has not bothered to prove...
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Forum: USA Politics
2nd July 2010, 05:05 AM
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Replies: 303
Views: 10,928
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