Skeptics Circle
tlambert | November 10, 2005Little known fact: 21 is the smallest prime that can be formed from the product of smaller primes in four different ways (7x3, 3x7, and 7x1x3). Anyway, the 21st skeptics circle is here. Check it out.
tlambert | June 23, 2005The 11th Skeptic's Circle is out. Don't miss the tag-team debunking by Orac and co of an awful "Thimerosal causes autism" piece by Robert F Kennedy Jr.
tlambert | April 1, 2005 The Fifth Skeptics Circle is here. The link to Mike Huben's pre-blogging blog brought back memories with this eulogy for Steve Kangas. Before there was the Lancet study there was Kellermann et al's NEJM study that found that owning a gun was associated with a three-fold increase in the risk of being murdered. This prompted many furious and ill-informed "debunkings" on Usenet. Kangas put together a nice document rebutting all of them.
tlambert | March 19, 2005 The Fourth Skeptics Circle is here. Lots of interesting posts. In particular I recommend Richard Rockley's "Five Apples"---he could almost be wrting about criticisms of the Lancet study.
tlambert | March 4, 2005Radagast has put together the third edition of the Skeptics' Circle. Lots of good reading there. Thanks, Radagast!
tlambert | February 17, 2005Orac has done a wonderful job of organising a slew of links to skeptical blogging into the Skeptics' Circle. (We're talking about the good kind of skepticism here, not global warming/ozone depletion/evolution sceptics.)
However, I must take issue with one small thing. Orac names Penn and Teller as heroes of the skeptic fellowship. They're not. Last year, an alert reader noticed that their show on Safety Hysteria cited as an expert none other than Steve Milloy. (In an obvious attempt to hide from my scrutiny access to their website is blocked from Australia, so I've linked to…