Skeptics' Circle at Terra Sigillata
Abel Pharmboy... clever name... is hosting this week's Skeptics' Circle, #31. (I hosted #28 a little while back. Hosting is always good clean fun... or at least fun. Beware the Pooflinger, I always say.)
Among my favorite bits of this episode: a prominently featured foot massager (wasn't there an Onion spoof about a miraculous new shoe insert that combined five kinds of pseudoscience? Anyone got a link?); a mention of the 10% of your brain nonsense (you use lots of your brain. really. truly. the 10% figure was never accurate. Although see the NY Times' Scan Shows Different Growth for Intelligent Brains for some interesting science on how the thickness of the cerebral cortex changes); and the question, How Should "Experts" Be Defined? I prefer the formulation, an Expert is someone from out of town, with a briefcase.
Check out the 31st edition of the Skeptics' Circle!
Among my favorite bits of this episode: a prominently featured foot massager (wasn't there an Onion spoof about a miraculous new shoe insert that combined five kinds of pseudoscience? Anyone got a link?); a mention of the 10% of your brain nonsense (you use lots of your brain. really. truly. the 10% figure was never accurate. Although see the NY Times' Scan Shows Different Growth for Intelligent Brains for some interesting science on how the thickness of the cerebral cortex changes); and the question, How Should "Experts" Be Defined? I prefer the formulation, an Expert is someone from out of town, with a briefcase.
Check out the 31st edition of the Skeptics' Circle!
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Posted by Eh Nonymous on
Thursday March 30, 2006 at 3:27pm
Don't know why I didn't find it before. Great stuff.
My favorite lines: "Just try to prove MagnaSoles didn't heal me!" and the closing line, "MagnaSoles really seem like they're working."
*Not all comments welcome. Flippant, facetious, fierce, or fatuous, fine. Fraudulent, felonious, fabricated, facially insufficient, and farkin' futile, fuggeddaboutit.