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Click "Read more" for a comprehensive roundup of recent media coverage, from Norway and around the world.

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Folks, I’m back from a very successful and enjoyable tour in Norway: three lectures in Oslo, Trondheim, and Bergen, a meeting with young Humanists as part of their studies for confirmation, and more than a dozen media interviews in less than a week resulting in comments which I got from -- literally -- all over the world. Despite the best efforts of the faith healers, homeopaths, and a guardian-angel-obsessed princess to mislead the Norwegian public, I’m happy to report that there is a strong Humanist movement in Norway that is fighting back. Through the Norwegian Humanist Association’s Ingen liker å bli lurt (Nobody likes to be fooled) campaign, we've helped share the value of critical thinking and skepticism with hundreds of thousands of Norwegians, and the reaction continues to this very day.

Links to news stories and videos will be posted here in short order, along with the full video of my lecture in Trondheim which was streamed live online last week. Click “Read More” to see photos from the tour in Norway.

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In recent months headlines and feature articles the world over were dominated by a single news story; a story which inspired outrage, shock and disbelief. Even a few threats to the source of the story and a significant amount of online bile and vitriol. The cause of this impassioned furor? Alleged changes to astrological signs. Seriously. And as if to compound the insult with injury the entire debacle 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 media.

AstronomyAstrology

One of these diagrams is based on serious and intensive scientific research. The other is based on vague generalities and total nonsense. Having trouble telling which is which? A glistening career in journalism may await you!

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Since the beginning of this year, there were bills being considered in seven of the United States legislatures, bills that pose a distinct threat to educational standards in this country. Three are now out of consideration, but will certainly be re-submitted in order to promote the nonsense of creationism. The others, still being considered, yet to be presented, or half-passed [pun!] are as follows:

First, the State of Florida is currently considering SB 1854, an amendment that would change the law to require what is being called a

…thorough presentation and critical analysis of the scientific theory of evolution.

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In an effort to make our extensive video library available online free of charge, The James Randi Educational Foundation is posting high quality digital video lectures and sessions from previous Amaz!ng Meetings and other events on randi.org. Check back often to see the latest video content.

This videos features Dr. Steven Novella’s fascinating review of consciousness from TAM6.

  1. Jenny McCarthy's Trouble With Facts
  2. Shermer Spam Scammers Scam
  3. Last Week at Science-Based Medicine
  4. Happy 137th Birthday To Harry Houdini