I hightly doubt that this comic resembles a true event 🤔

#Entertainment #existentialcomics

Extreme Skepticism

#Montaigne, #Hume, and #Descartes are modern #skeptics who formulate specific #skepticisms about how we understand the world.

#Pyrrho on the other hand was an ancient #skeptic supposedly #skeptical of everything and anything. However, fittingly, we don't really know his exact beliefs, so we should take a skeptical stance towards anything people ascribe to him.

https://existentialcomics.com/comic/499

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https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts/episode-913
#skeptics-guide-podcast #podcast #botNews Items Hydration Myths Bioplastics GPS on the Moon Russia Fears Western Psychics Who's That Noisy Answer to last week – Pulling tape

Episode #912 |

https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts/episode-912
#skeptics-guide-podcast #podcast #bot

Skeptics with a K: Episode #343

Alice looks at the risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease, while Mike looks at the evidence for mix-and-match vaccination. Plus, Mike has some very strange dreams.

https://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/2022/12/skeptics-with-a-k-episode-343/

#Skeptics #SkepticsWithAK #CriticalThinking #Vaccines #Podcasts #Alzheimers

@DewiLanglet An interesting, substantial difference indeed. However, a plausible explanation would be that #mastodon consists of #skeptics about the for #profit motivation and the potential conflict of interest of #openaccess publishers while people who are happy on the bird side lean towards pro-business #profit.
Besides the real problem of #predatoryjournals undermining the quality control and feedback of reviews, arguments are often reduced to a polarized either-or world.

Peter Ellis’s lawyer Rob Harrison just spoke at the NZ #Skeptics conference in Wellington, and it moved me to tears. For non-Kiwis Peter Ellis was the #Satanic Panic in NZ, the test case where a #LGBTQ man who worked at a crèche was accused in 1991 of sexual abuse. It had all the McMartin hallmarks including Satanic hysteria, Christian bigotry and homophobia, and 30 years to play out. Peter Ellis was finally absolved of any wrongdoing, all the way to the Supreme Court. It could happen again.

At #NZSkepticsCon22.

First talk by Richard Arnold about statistics was old hat but good content for those who haven't heard it.

Second by Mark Dunick on fascism and the far right in NZ was good, wish there was time for more detail. Might have to get his book. Christchurch got multiple mentions of course :(

Then Alexander Maxwell's dive into Islam and Jihad was one of those talks I really wish was recorded so I could put it in front of people.

#skepticism #Skeptics

Skeptics with a K: Episode #342

This week, Alice talks about the home hormone and fertility-testing service Hertility, and Marsh is surprised when a group of anti-vaxxers come to see him speak in Glasgow. Meanwhile, Mike moves into an AirBNB.

https://pod.link/327034166/episode/17a2451bb197d44ec06370aad25fcdb8

#SkepticsWithAK #Skeptics #CriticalThinking #Hertility #Antivax #Vaccine #ConspiracyTheories

There is now also a Mastodon Community for Scientific #Skeptics.

That is, for the opposite of climate "skeptics", #creationists, #antivax'ers, #Covidiots, # Qanon & #FlatEarth'ers. https://skeptics.social

Admin is Frank Sonntag, who also administrates FediScience, the community for publishing scientists.
https://fediscience.org