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Slate has an excellent article out titled Say It Ain’t So, O, which takes on Oprah’s support of celebrity vaccine denialist Jenny McCarthy, she of Playboy Playmate fame and absolutely no medical credentials whatsoever. (The one thing Slate gets wrong is calling McCarthy a “skeptic” - see the difference between a true skeptic and a denialist [...]
There are lots of great skeptical cartoons out there, and I don’t think this one is especially new, but it always gives me a good chuckle…
There are many examples of words that mean different things depending on whether they’re used in a casual or common manner, or whether they’re used in a scientific manner. The word theory, for example, is often used as a synonym for guess or hunch in common usage, and in everyday talk, this is usually [...]