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New Blood
Join Date: Apr 2020
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Hey there. I've been a professional sports handicapper for 40 years. I had a few things published back in my youth. "Scientists, Gamblers, and Magicians" in The Humanist, some op-eds and stuff. Anyway, everything in life has become political, and I have discovered that many if not most of my gambling compatriots are pretty much alt-right. I signed up here for both my sanity and to eventually post a link to my blog, since I'm looking for sane feedback.
I attended one of the original CSICOP conventions way back at Buffalo and have followed Randi and Nickell forever. Oh yeah, my handle is my name. I'm not really into the whole anonymity thing. Stay safe! |
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Join Date: Apr 2020
Location: Canada
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I join this forum to hopefully talk about the Amanda Knox case. Which how learn about this forum in the first place. Which might lead to discussions of other subjects in the future.
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Suspicious Mind
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 5,275
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Hi redietz, welcome! Sounds like you have some interests that would intrigue this motley crew of Forumites. I'm sure if life goes back to normal, you'll see that we have a few Forum members who still make their way to CSICOP and whatever skeptic conferences are available these days. Welcome, enjoy reading and posting!
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Suspicious Mind
Join Date: Sep 2003
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Welcome, schmidt61!
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Scholar
Join Date: Apr 2020
Location: Canada
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Thanks
Thanks Wudang and Moefaux though Wudang I a bit skeptical of you sarcastic comment, not that I didn't enjoy it.
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Jun 2005
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Scholar
Join Date: Apr 2020
Location: Canada
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Thanks
that's okay I had my share of hard Knoxs
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An Awesome Dude
Join Date: Mar 2020
Posts: 554
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Welcome to the site all!!!!!!!
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Rarely prone to hissy-fits
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Puget Sound
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To survive election season on a skeptics forum, one must understand Hymie-the-Robot.
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Not a doctor.
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Texas
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Indeed.
I think theprestige just posted something about how much of the economy would be driven by astrology if it actually worked. I saw it in the nominations thread, so I'm not sure where it originated, but sports betting is another field that seems ripe for magical thinking. So, welcome redietz. Looking forward to your additions. |
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Observer of Phenomena
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New Blood
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New Blood
Join Date: May 2020
Location: PNW, USA
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Hello peeps. I guess I'm the newest typing monkey in the Shakespeare recreation project.
Skeptic here. Been that way for a while, but getting deeper into it lately reading lots of books and such. Looking to find some like minded peeps here, and maybe some not like minded peeps. |
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New Blood
Join Date: Jun 2020
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Thanks for having me. Long time fan of Martin Gardner and recreational mathematics along with a special interest in
alternative medicine debunking. |
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Becoming Beth
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Central Vale of Humility (USA, sort of)
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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." "Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Like many humorless and indignant people, he is hard on everybody but himself, and does not perceive it when he fails his own ideal (Molière) A pedant is a man who studies a vacuum through instruments that allow him to draw cross-sections of the details (John Ciardi) |
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New Blood
Join Date: Jul 2020
Location: Rural eastern North Carolina, USA
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Noob
OK, I've got 6 large hand-tossed pepperoni, four bacon and mushroom, four anchovie and pineapple (wtf?), two veggie delights, and a plain cheese, total $153. 99. Who ordered?
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In the Peanut Gallery
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Location: Melbourne
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New Blood
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New Blood
Join Date: Jul 2020
Location: Rural eastern North Carolina, USA
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I've got FOUR with pineapple. Pony up, mate. $32.99 Murican
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Observer of Phenomena
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Second one's mine.
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Philosopher
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: The Connecticut School for Rumpology.
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It's been too long since the last really fun hazing.
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Wiltshire, UK
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Pineapple! On a pizza! Heineouis crime. Get out of here - but leave half of one pepperonis on your way out.
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BOFH
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: People's Republic of South Yorkshire
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1st Stansfield man: [finds pizza among Matilda's guns] Lunch.
2nd Stansfield man: Careful Blood. Might be poisoned. 1st Stansfield man: No, no anchovies on this. |
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Join Date: Feb 2010
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Sans ananas!
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#3193 |
Graduate Poster
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: Cork baaaiii
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Well I suppose it's a good time to reintroduce myself. I joined five and half years ago, stopped posting (for no particular reason) about three and a half years ago. And today I decided to come back (again for no particular reason).
Some of you might have guessed from my profile pic that I'm Irish, and some leg work will even tell you from what part. Since I was last here, I changed what part of the civil service I'm working in, I'm now with An Garda Síochána (the Irish cops) and I spent two and half years working in Clonmel (about an hour's drive [technically fifty minutes, but lots of tractors and Sunday drivers] from home) and then got promoted and moved to Cork last November, where I now live. |
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New Blood
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: NE Washington state
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Hi, all. I joined this forum a couple of years ago. I was prompted by the swelling tsunami of conspiracy theories, hoaxes, and pseudoscience, overwhelming my puny ability to fact check stuff. And I have folks wanting to "educate" me about various things - "sovereign citizen" movement, chemtrails, free energy, "ormus gold", vaccines causing autism, the "plandemic", yada yada.
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Suspicious Mind
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 5,275
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Welcome back, Gulliver Foyle and OldForester!
OldForester, glad to see you finally made your first post! Don't forget to stop by Community when you need a break from debating folks in the Conspiracy section. |
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"más divertido"
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In the Peanut Gallery
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Welcome back Gulliver Foyle. I’ve been to Clonmel and Cork and could comfortably live in both places (anywhere in Ireland really) if I were to be exiled from Australia.
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New Blood
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