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 Back in September of 2007, I was invited to speak at the prestigious TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference in Monterey, California. To do so, I had to literally get up out of a hospital bed in Florida – very much against the advice of my doctors – and fly off to address what is arguably the toughest, most influential, and savvy audience to be found anywhere. During that heady experience I met actress Goldie Hawn, neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran, entrepreneur Richard Branson, and prominent skeptical author Stephen Pinker, all for the first time, along with literally dozens of other celebrities.

I committed homeopathic suicide during that lecture, a stunt I’ve done all over the world to make an important point about homeopathy, that it has no ingredients that will help or affect any ailment, symptom, or disease, and that it’s inane to take it seriously.

Seriously…

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SBMVolumesJREF is pleased to announce the final six volumes of the book series it is publishing on Science-Based Medicine.

In cooperation with the Science-Based Medicine blog, which is an invaluable source of expert information on all manner of medical topics, JREF is publishing a number of books on the topic. Led by executive editor Dr. Steven Novella, who heads JREF’s Science-Based Medicine Project, the blog’s team of writers regularly shine the light of good science on spurious health claims, and these new books anthologize their best writing on issues ranging from vaccines and naturopathy to homeopathy and nutritional supplements. Their science-based and skeptical treatment of these issues are of interest to skeptics, non-skeptics, and educated medical consumers alike.

Contributors to the book series include Dr. David Gorski, Dr. Harriet Hall, Dr. Mark Crislip, Dr. Kimball Atwood, Dr. Peter Lipson, Dr. Joseph Albietz, Dr. Scott Gavura, Dr. David Kroll, Dr. John M. Snyder, and Dr. Wallace Sampson, among many more science-based doctors and researchers.

The following six titles are now available on Kindle and Nook. iBooks versions are coming very soon:

Science-Based Medicine: Guide to Ethics, Law, Politics, Media and CAM
Kindle | Nook

Science-Based Medicine: Guide to Chiropractic
Kindle | Nook

Science-Based Medicine: Guide to Critical Thinking
Kindle | Nook

Science-Based Medicine: Guide to Cancer and CAM
Kindle | Nook

Science-Based Medicine: Guide to Acupuncture and "Eastern" Medicine
Kindle | Nook

The Best of Science-Based Medicine
Kindle | Nook

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 First things first. Take this quiz. It should take you about five minutes. I’ll wait.

Now that we have the quiz out of the way I have to make some assumptions about you before beginning. I’ll assume that you scored pretty high on the quiz. You probably have some kind of science enthusiasm; you might even blog or podcast or comment on science websites frequently. You are most likely college educated, a man between the ages of 18 and 24, and have been to this website before.

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In this workshop from The Amaz!ng Meeting 2012, Ray Hyman instructs participants on how to do “psychic” or character readings. They also perform readings on each other. The goal is not to increase the number of cold readers, but to show how easily a cold reading can convince people they have experienced the supernatural.

For more videos from past Amaz!ng Meetings, visit our YouTube channel. And to register for this summer's TAM 2013 in Las Vegas, click here.

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Here is a rundown of the week in winners, losers and stinky fakery from the past week courtesy of Doubtful News.

There were some very oddball stories out this week. Let's take a look.

Here's a "not dead yet" story.   He's a winner!

Brooms are forbidden in airspace above 150 meters.

  1. The Randi Show - Sylvia Browne: Wrong Again
  2. Last Week In Science-Based Medicine
  3. Michael E. Mann and Sanal Edamaruku join TAM 2013 Speakers Lineup
  4. Join Us for Sharon Hill's Workshop: "I Doubt That: The Media Guide to Skepticism"