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In times of crisis, organization is needed to provide aid and relief to those in need. As skeptics, we are often likened to a "herd of cats," resisting all efforts to gather us into one organized effort. Some of the time, this may be to our advantage, but when a force needs to be mobilized to render assistance, something more is required.

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Here is a recap of the stories that appeared over the last two weeks at Science-Based Medicine, a multi-author skeptical blog that separates the science from the woo in medicine.

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Great news, Catholics! It is now official: “Blessed” Mary McKillop, dead these last ninety years, was roused from her mortal torpor in 1995 to perform a minor medical miracle on a faithful devotee in Sydney, Australia. (It was her second miracle in 90 years, which means she is a less proficient intercessor than John Paul II but a damned sight better than Saint Damien of Molokai.) View the story here, and see why Sister McKillop, the fiery founder of the Josephites and Australian pedagogical innovator, is now ready for canonization.

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We get alot of interesting folks visiting the Foundation, and lately we’ve decided to begin filming them. Massimo Polidoro arrived from Milan this past Wednesday for a brief Floridian vacay, and yesterday Norm Edmund (of Edmund’s Scientific!), aged 93, swung by to join Randi and Massimo for lunch. After the jump, some candid, unscripted footage of Randi showing Edmund his Mova Globe, dishing about polar magnetism, and discussing the iPhone.

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Common sense: Kids should be rewarded for good, not bad, behavior. The adults in their midst have a duty to discourage their anti-social, crazy, and excessively goofy tendencies, and to moderate any wild imaginative flights that could lead them to dishonesty, or to a permanent disfigurement of their budding worldviews. Most of all, adults must be square with them; mustn’t molest their cosmologies or affirm their infantile tendencies in such a way that the children will be mentally crippled or stunted. That’s my opinion.

Also my opinion: For the reasons above and probably several hundred more, Chip Coffey is one bad dude. Check out this clip from his show, Psychic Kids, the second season of which began airing last month, and continue reading after the jump. (I'd have embedded the vid, but its hosts have disabled that option. Probably to keep it from getting posted here.)

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