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oracknows | February 23, 2006Good news!
One of my favorite skeptical bloggers, Matt at Pooflingers Anonymous, has ended his blogging hiatus. I was sad to see him announce in early January that he was leaving the blogosphere , and I'm happy to see that he's back in business.
It turns out that the constant intense exposure to the rampant credulity of creationists like Kent Hovind and the writers of the Evolution Cruncher had made him fear for his critical thinking skills and even his mental health. (I warned him about it at the time, but would he listen? Nooooo!) He had to take a break just to recover.
Now he's back,…
oracknows | February 21, 2006Previous technical problems that prevented my posts and your comments from showing up on this blog have now been resolved.
Orac is back online.
Everything appears to be working as it should, and you should be able to comment again. If you haven't contributed your own You might be an altie if... idea, now's the time to jump in. (There are a lot of great entries there that I wish I had thought of.)
Normal blogging will resume tomorrow.
oracknows | February 15, 2006Nope, Respectful Insolence is still not integrated into the main ScienceBlogs page or into its aggregated feed. Patience, Orac-philes. It probably won't be until next week now; so please keep this blog bookmarked, or, if you use an RSS feed aggegator, don't rely on the aggregated ScienceBlogs feed to catch your daily helping of Respectful Insolenceâ¢.
I feel like such an outsider...
oracknows | February 14, 2006Besides running my own blog, I also happen to have the distinct honor of being responsible for organizing the Skeptics' Circle. One of the great things about the blogosphere is that anyone can have a blog, either for free through a service like Blogspot or at a nominal cost. This greatest aspect of the blogosphere has a downside, however, as it makes it very easy for myths, urban legends, pseudoscience, and quackery to promulgate throughout the Internet with great alacrity. A little more than a year ago, one blogger going by the 'nym of St. Nate (who has, alas, retired from blogging) had an…
oracknows | February 13, 2006The day has finally arrived.
The big changes hinted at and then announced have finally come to pass.
Orac has finally rebooted and plugged his (its?) essence into ScienceBlogs.com.
It almost didn't come to pass, thanks to a certain overreaction by my medical school. It also didn't help that, after an unbelievably mild January in the New York area, the one time that winter would finally reassert itself would, by sheer bad luck, fall on the very day that I was scheduled to fly home from a surgical meeting in San Diego. One plane cancellation and dire speculation about the weather did produce a…