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		<title>Climate Skepticism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Climate science has turned from an obscure and forgotten discipline to the center of a raging world-wide controversy &#8211; something I don&#8217;t think climate scientists were prepared for. It has also become the third rail of skepticism &#8211; don&#8217;t touch it unless you want to get burned.
The reason for this is probably obvious &#8211; skeptics [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/02/08/climate-skepticism/</link>
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		<title>Whack-A-Medium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How sad that yet another medium has been given press approval. I could write a post on a different medium or phony psychic every week and never run out of material. This week&#8217;s entry into the never-ending cycle of mediums I predicted would be coming (see my post &#8220;ESP Boot Camp&#8221; of 23 Feb. 2009) is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/02/06/whack-a-medium/</link>
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		<title>More on Ancient Jews, Pyramids, Pharaohs, and the Exodus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t think for a minute that I didn&#8217;t know it would be controversial. When I recorded this week&#8217;s Skeptoid episode Did Jewish Slaves Build the Pyramids, I knew it was going to upset Christians who hold that belief dear. I wasn&#8217;t disappointed, as you can tell from the comments.
As you may or may not know, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/02/04/more-on-ancient-jews-pyramids-pharaohs-and-the-exodus/</link>
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		<title>And now the antivaxxers&#8217; humiliation is complete</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh, this is wonderful to hear: The Lancet &#8212; a leading UK professional medical research journal &#8212; is retracting the paper published by Andrew Wakefield back in 1998 that linked vaccines with autism. 
The paper has been found to be multiply and fatally flawed, with Wakefield and his work being thoroughly discredited. As the Lancet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/02/03/and-now-the-antivaxxers-humiliation-is-complete/</link>
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		<title>Mainstream Skepticism Win! Score one for New Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am an avid listener to podcasts. I can attribute my enlightenment that I was a Skeptic  from the early days of listening to Penn Jillette’s radio show rebroadcast on my iPod.
Now, as I spend my day making videos, working on pitch materials for The Skeptologists and also making breakaway bottles for SMASHProps, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/02/02/techstuffwin/</link>
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		<title>An Argument That Should Never Be Made Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cryptozoology is my first love. As a child, I spent endless hours planning the cryptozoological expeditions I thought I would one day lead. Even today, as a &#8220;professional skeptic,&#8221; I carry a torch for monsters and hidden beasts.
Which is how I came to frequent the popular cryptozoology blog site Cryptomundo. Presided over by the prolific [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/02/02/an-argument-that-should-never-be-made-again/</link>
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		<title>YouFOs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a regular basis I am sent links to YouTube to review the latest UFO video footage. Most often it is by a fellow skeptic who just wants to share the latest crappy evidence being offered by the UFO community. Sometimes the links are sent by readers who are perplexed and are looking for an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/02/01/youfos/</link>
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		<title>Making a Dent in a Vent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[



A Vent on Fire



So it seems Bonnie Vent is more than a little bent out of shape about her claim to be able to talk to the deceased Michael Jackson.  The real question is not one of legality of freedom of speech as far as I&#8217;m concerned. (See Steve Novella&#8217;s follow-up blog written in response [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/01/30/making-a-dent-in-a-vent/</link>
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		<title>Did David Blaine hold his breath for 17 minutes?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like any good audience member, I&#8217;ve always been impressed by magician David Blaine&#8217;s 2008 world record feat of holding his breath underwater for 17 minutes. I&#8217;d never given it much more thought than the observation that a young, healthy guy can probably achieve any given world record if he dedicates enough resources to the effort, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/01/28/did-david-blaine-hold-his-breath-for-17-minutes/</link>
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		<title>Alt-med purveyors show their true colors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At some level, I understand the motivations of people who promote &#34;alternative medicine&#34;. They may very well be altrustic, seeing what they perceive as a massive failing of so-called Western medicine, and feeling strongly that they know how to fix the situation, if only people would seek alternatives. I know that when I feel strongly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://skepticblog.org/2010/01/27/alt-med-purveyors-show-their-true-colors/</link>
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