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21. Last Week At Science-Based Medicine: (Latest JREF News); ... who promote acupuncture rather than fulfilling their mandate to guard public safety. Examples of their malfeasance are described, including taking bribes, selling exam answers, and approving astrology ...; Created on 25 June 2012
22. Is It Time To Call Creationists’ Bluff And Push For “Teaching All Views”?: (Swift); ... here’s no such thing as gravity) is turned down in physics classes? When astrology comes knocking on the door in astronomy and earth science classes, will it be turned away, risking another lawsuit? I ...; Created on 06 June 2012
23. Skeptic History: Spam, Spam, Spam: (Swift); ... occur via unsolicited commercial email, or “spam”. Anything from so-called herbal viagra to astrology readings to worthless diploma-mill degrees are commonly marketed this way. Of course, “spam” messages ...; Created on 11 May 2012
24. Using Fiction To Teach Critical Thinking: Carl Sagan's "Contact": (Swift); ... literalism, conspiracies of scientists/Jews/communists, astrology, psychic claims, doomsday devices, Lysenkoism, and, my favorite, space Nazis.# A wonderful way to teach this novel is to use it to illustrate ...; Created on 09 May 2012
25. Understanding Coincidence: (Swift); ... dreams are harmless, I would suspect that this belief characterizes the kind of thinking that underlies pseudosciences like astrology, ESP, and parapsychology. Let’s overcome our math anxiety with a ...; Created on 08 March 2012
26. Obituaries in Skepticism in 2011: (Swift); ... nter Sachs - filmmaker who funded astrology research - November 14, 1932 – May 7, 2011 Linda Scarberry - original “Mothman” cryptid eyewitness - June 10, 1947 – March 6, 2011 Helmut Schmidt - physicis ...; Created on 11 January 2012
27. Skeptic History: A Big Birthday: (Swift); ... he was also highly skeptical of topics such as astrology. He famously hoaxed a well-known London astrologer by predicting his death. Because of this and his other works, Swift is the namesake of the ...; Created on 29 November 2011
28. News From The Classroom: (Swift); ... m to expand his existing curriculum that scientifically examines the claims of astrology. JREF educator grants help offset the cost of developing or improving critical thinking and scientific skeptici ...; Created on 22 November 2011
29. Weekly Media Roundup, November 18, 2011: (Swift); ... 2022 Big News: The Newest JREF Research Fellow Bluffton Today (blog), November 5, 2011 Astrology and Homeopathy Surrey Skeptics, November 4, 2011 What is skepticism? D.J. Grothe explains Svengali ...; Created on 18 November 2011
30. Recipients of 2011 JREF Grants for Educators: (Latest JREF News); ... examines the claims of astrology. This program has students critically analyzing astrology as a pathway to better understanding the nature of science. He will be working with iPad apps, video resources ...; Created on 13 November 2011
31. Your Skeptic Stories: (Swift); ... ause I didn't submit to a man. I suggested that if astrology worked the way he thought, he ought to be able to predict what starsign I was from my character. He got annoyed, visibly red, and insis ...; Created on 29 October 2011
32. An Interview with the JREF’s Director of Educational Programs, Michael Blanford: (Swift); ... and astrology. We have others in the works for release in 2012. And we aim to make these available free to any teachers who ask for them through our “JREF In the Classroom” program. Is this how the ...; Created on 22 September 2011
33. Your Skeptic Stories: (Swift); ... loves me no matter what, I just can't argue with the voice of logic. My skepticism is why I have never believed in ghosts, UFOs, psychics, astrology, etc. It is also what led me to my eventual athei ...; Created on 27 August 2011
34. My Skeptic Elevator Pitch: (Swift); ... personal “gris gris” - that one last irrational thing they still hold dear. If you use astrology as an example of something that is nonsense, and someone in the elevator still believes in astrology, you’ll ...; Created on 28 July 2011
35. Churn The Other Cheek: (Swift); ... amounted to little more than journalistic confusion between the science of astronomy and the superstition of astrology. But this in merely indicative of an existing larger problem between science and mainstream ...; Created on 29 March 2011
36. Storming The Ark: (Swift); ... himself as the parish priest for his native town of Justingen. In addition to his religious duties, Stoeffler became famous for his learning in such diverse fields as astronomy, mathematics and astrolog ...; Created on 25 January 2011
37. Last Week at Science-Based Medicine: (Newsflash); ... vessels and nerves, on astrology, and on bloodletting. A Disconnect between cell phone fears and science (Lorne Trottier) Devra Davis’ book Disconnect is a tract that conspiracy theorists will love. ...; Created on 06 January 2011
38. Serves Em Right: (Swift); ... government has now officially amended its labor laws to include astrology and witchcraft as actual professions, meaning that star-charters and ladies-on-brooms will now have to pay up annually, perhaps ...; Created on 05 January 2011
39. Season of Reason 2010: The JREF's Bright Future: (Latest JREF News); ... which will include text and video, and focus in a hands-on way on the exploration of a number of topics such as dowsing, E.S.P, complementary and alternative medicine, astrology, skeptics history, an ...; Created on 11 November 2010
40. The James Randi Educational Foundation announces formation of Education Advisory Panel: (Latest JREF News); ... e he created the course "Science & Pseudoscience" in which ESP, astrology and other extraordinary claims provide a context for understanding the way the scientific method is supposed to work. Prior to join ...; Created on 01 November 2010

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