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Sunday, 12 October 2014

In which British military intelligence promotes skepticism in Ireland by lying about black magic

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Richard Jenkins has just published a book, Black Magic and Bogeymen , showing how a British military intelligence division deliberately fabr...

How not to debunk an idea

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Warning: this is a rant and consequently, it has a nasty tendency not to follow its own advice. A certain number of articles I've read...
Friday, 10 October 2014

The CEO of Microsoft brings us magical thinking on how to get a raise

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Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, has just made himself famous by responding to a question about how women should ask for raises thusly: It...
Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Opt-in or opt-out on organ donation: the right thing to do should be the default thing to do

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For a while now, I've been wanting to begin a series of posts I'm calling Magic Society , on the subject of magical thinking with re...
Monday, 6 October 2014

How to make magic water

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I've been meaning to write another long how-to post for weeks. Here are just a few of the many, many ways to make magic water. All of th...
Sunday, 5 October 2014

Remedial Christian Studies

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According to my daughter, her Religious Studies teacher told her there are two approaches to animal rights in Christianity. One group believ...
Friday, 3 October 2014

Banksy's Birds

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Subtitled, another fine failure at anti-racist art! It seems to be open season on 'racist' art in Britain these days. Brett Bailey...