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		<title>Mailbag: More Nonsensical Ravings from an Anti-Psychiatry Troll</title>
		<link>http://debunkingdenialism.com/2013/05/24/mailbag-more-nonsensical-ravings-from-an-anti-psychiatry-troll/</link>
		<comments>http://debunkingdenialism.com/2013/05/24/mailbag-more-nonsensical-ravings-from-an-anti-psychiatry-troll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 16:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil Karlsson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mailbag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-psychiatry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I rarely get email via the contact form, but when I do I like responding to them in the mailbag series. This time, a troll by the curious name of You are a moron (I will henceforth refer to this individual as &#8220;Moron&#8221; for short) sent me an angry email. I previously declined to publish [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debunkingdenialism.com&#038;blog=16825134&#038;post=8215&#038;subd=debunkingdenialism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shattering Academic Philosophy</title>
		<link>http://debunkingdenialism.com/2013/05/19/shattering-academic-philosophy/</link>
		<comments>http://debunkingdenialism.com/2013/05/19/shattering-academic-philosophy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil Karlsson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[academic philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Chalmers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[physicalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In their paper &#8220;What do Philosophers Believe?&#8221; (to be published in the journal Philosophical Studies), David Bourget and David J. Chalmers have surveyed the position of thousands of contemporary philosophers around the world on various questions, from the existence of a deity and a priori knowledge to physicalism and Newcomb&#8217;s problem. Their paper can be [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debunkingdenialism.com&#038;blog=16825134&#038;post=8098&#038;subd=debunkingdenialism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Swedish Anti-Vaccine Infection Parties for Measles and Rubella</title>
		<link>http://debunkingdenialism.com/2013/05/10/swedish-anti-vaccine-infection-parties-for-measles-and-rubella/</link>
		<comments>http://debunkingdenialism.com/2013/05/10/swedish-anti-vaccine-infection-parties-for-measles-and-rubella/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 13:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil Karlsson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-vaccination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anthroposophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jackie Swartz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Järna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vidarkliniken]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Near the Swedish capital Stockholm lies a small city called Järna. It is the main center for the anthroposophy movement in the country. The city has several Waldorf schools and even a medical clinic called Vidarkliniken. The clinic was awarded with &#8220;Misleader of the Year&#8221; by the Swedish Skeptic Association in 2008 for their pseudoscientific [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debunkingdenialism.com&#038;blog=16825134&#038;post=8064&#038;subd=debunkingdenialism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fraud Psychic Sylvia Browne Proven Wrong Yet Again</title>
		<link>http://debunkingdenialism.com/2013/05/09/fraud-psychic-sylvia-browne-proven-wrong-yet-again/</link>
		<comments>http://debunkingdenialism.com/2013/05/09/fraud-psychic-sylvia-browne-proven-wrong-yet-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 14:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil Karlsson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychic fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sylvia Browne]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sylvia Browne claims to be a psychic, but she has been convicted of fraud in the past and has failed all scientific tests of her ability. In addition, she is very often wrong about her predictions. For background on Sylvia Browne, please read the the article Psychic Defective: Sylvia Browne’s History of Failure at the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debunkingdenialism.com&#038;blog=16825134&#038;post=8045&#038;subd=debunkingdenialism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Pathetic rationalization</media:title>
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		<title>The Robustness of Scientific Skepticism</title>
		<link>http://debunkingdenialism.com/2013/05/09/the-robustness-of-scientific-skepticism/</link>
		<comments>http://debunkingdenialism.com/2013/05/09/the-robustness-of-scientific-skepticism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 12:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil Karlsson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Skepticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fragmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamy Ian Swiss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-testable claims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PZ Myers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, scientific skepticism has come under attack. PZ Myers has announced that he does not want to be a part of the skeptical community any longer. His decision stems from a long-standing disagreement with Jamy Ian Swiss about the proper mission of skepticism. While I do not think that his characterization of scientific skepticism is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debunkingdenialism.com&#038;blog=16825134&#038;post=8005&#038;subd=debunkingdenialism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientific Skepticism and One-liners</title>
		<link>http://debunkingdenialism.com/2013/05/09/scientific-skepticism-and-one-liners/</link>
		<comments>http://debunkingdenialism.com/2013/05/09/scientific-skepticism-and-one-liners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 23:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil Karlsson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Skepticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[one-liners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skeptical science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vaccines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The great power many of pseudoscientific myths is that they are often short, simple, memorable, emotionally influential and cognitively attractive. These are beneficial traits in the modern media world, where people can have short attention spans and frequently browse a lot of information. Scientific rebuttals, on the other hand, are usually hard, complex, cold, long-winded [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debunkingdenialism.com&#038;blog=16825134&#038;post=7964&#038;subd=debunkingdenialism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Skepchick Rebecca Watson Misuses Statistics</title>
		<link>http://debunkingdenialism.com/2013/04/30/how-skepchick-rebecca-watson-misuse-statistics/</link>
		<comments>http://debunkingdenialism.com/2013/04/30/how-skepchick-rebecca-watson-misuse-statistics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil Karlsson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Misuse of Statistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skepticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[misuse of statistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paired data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebecca Watson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[statistical power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unpaired data]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is very important to correct the misuse of statistics regardless of the identity of the perpetrator. Sometimes, it may be even more important to correct well-known individuals because their erroneous statistical argument will have a much more substantial influence than if it had been committed by an average blogger. One such case is that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debunkingdenialism.com&#038;blog=16825134&#038;post=7862&#038;subd=debunkingdenialism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cold Facts about Gardasil? More like Intellectual Rigor Mortis</title>
		<link>http://debunkingdenialism.com/2013/04/23/cold-facts-about-gardasil-more-like-intellectual-rigor-mortis/</link>
		<comments>http://debunkingdenialism.com/2013/04/23/cold-facts-about-gardasil-more-like-intellectual-rigor-mortis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil Karlsson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-vaccination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gardasil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kalla Fakta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lena Sundström]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[side-effects]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kalla Fakta (roughly translates to &#8220;Cold Facts&#8221;) is an investigative program on Swedish television that has been on air since 1991. Among its many crowning achievements we can count exposing how the Swedish government let a CIA-led operation on Swedish soil deport two suspected terrorists and subject them to torture in an Egyptian prison (one [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debunkingdenialism.com&#038;blog=16825134&#038;post=7802&#038;subd=debunkingdenialism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Stephen Bond&#8217;s Case Against Skepticism Is Profoundly Unconvincing</title>
		<link>http://debunkingdenialism.com/2013/04/21/why-stephen-bonds-case-against-skepticism-is-profoundly-unconvincing/</link>
		<comments>http://debunkingdenialism.com/2013/04/21/why-stephen-bonds-case-against-skepticism-is-profoundly-unconvincing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil Karlsson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Skepticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skepticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Bond]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the article Why I am no longer a skeptic, writer and former Stephen Bond tries to explain why he no longer finds the identity of scientific skepticism credible. He states that he does not believe in things like Christian theism or that 9/11 was an inside job and still accepts the general principles of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debunkingdenialism.com&#038;blog=16825134&#038;post=7478&#038;subd=debunkingdenialism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Failure of Mysterian Complaints about Neuroesthetics</title>
		<link>http://debunkingdenialism.com/2013/03/30/the-failure-of-mysterian-complaints-about-neuroesthetics/</link>
		<comments>http://debunkingdenialism.com/2013/03/30/the-failure-of-mysterian-complaints-about-neuroesthetics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 12:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emil Karlsson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Philip Ball]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mysterian explanation for human cognitive facilities have been around for millennia. Before the more modern discoveries of the structure and function of the human brain, mysterian explanations were very common. However, with the advent of newer technology and more accurate research programs, supernaturalist assertions about the mind has largely been discredited by the evidence. Increasingly, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=debunkingdenialism.com&#038;blog=16825134&#038;post=7689&#038;subd=debunkingdenialism&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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