People are stupid. Given enough motivation, people will believe anything. People will believe a lie because they want it to be true, or because they're frightened it might be true.
Terry Goodkind
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On Skepticism
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Introduction
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Why I wrote these link pages.
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UK Skeptics
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The difference between open-minded and credulous.
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Carl Sagan
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The Burden of Skepticism.
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Carl Sagan
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The Fine Art of Baloney Detection.
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Skeptico
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The appeal to 'open-mindedness'.
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Daylight Atheism
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How to think critically.
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Michael Shermer
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Skeptic Manifesto.
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General Resources
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Richard Dawkins
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A Clear-Thinking Oasis.
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JREF
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Devoted to testing dubious claims.
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UK Skeptics
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Looking at issues from a factual perspective.
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CSI
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Committee for Skeptical Enquiry.
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Skeptic Report
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Skeptical and Critical Thinking.
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Skeptic's Dictionary
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Comprehensive dictionary of irrational beliefs.
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Rational Wiki
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Online Encyclopedia of Science and Critical Thinking.
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Skeptical Pages
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Alien Abductions
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Defying physics to experiment on Bubba and Jethro.
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Alternative Medicine
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How and why Alternative Medicine doesn't work.
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Ancient Astronauts
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...didn't come to earth to build the pyramids.
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Armageddon
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May 21, 2011. The Rapture. Yeah, right.
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Astrology
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Your future's not in the stars.
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Auras
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Or just optical illusions?
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Cell Phones
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Do they cause brain tumors? Or worse?
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Chiropractic
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All diseases are caused by spinal misalignment?
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Conspiracies
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Truly bizarre beliefs in an alternate reality.
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Crystal Healing
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Magic healing from inanimate rocks.
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Deja Vu
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Psychic, past lives or CIA mind control?
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Dowsing
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Undiscovered energies, or the Ideomotor Effect?
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Evolution
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Just a Theory?
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Free Energy
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Only if the second law of thermodynamics is wrong...
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Global Warming
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Turns out it's not a myth...
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HAARP
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Turns out it doesn't cause earthquakes...
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Homeopathy
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An eighteenth century fraud.
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Psychics
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... or how to take money from the gullible.
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Psychic Surgery
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Sleight of hand for the gullible.
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Reflexology
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Really only a foot massage.
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Reiki
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If qi doesn't exist, how does Reiki work?
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Religion
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Not in defence of religion.
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Science
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Some thoughts on Science and Religion.
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Vaccines
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How misinformation is killing children.
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Quotes
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Big page of relevant skeptical quotations.
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Atheism Quotes
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Big page of Atheist quotations.
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Skeptical Writers
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Top six - frequently atheist related,
best non-accommodationist resources.
The rest are generally more on (against)
SCAM (so-called alternative medicine)
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Butterflies & Wheels
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By Ophelia Benson, author of "Does God Hate Women".
(The answer is yes, by the way)
Eloquent, erudite articles and comments...
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Pharyngula
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PZ Myers elegant and articulate blog.
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Jerry Coyne
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Writings by the author of 'Why Evolution is True'.
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Russell Blackford
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Metamagician and the Hellfire Club
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Greta Christina
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Greta doesn't pull any punches.
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Sam Harris
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Writings by the author of 'The End of Faith'.
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Respectful Insolence
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Science Blog by Orac - quite brilliant.
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Bad Science
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Dr Ben Goldacre's blog on bad science.
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Sceptics Book of Pooh-Pooh
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Contains reason... not excuses.
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SBM
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Science Based Medicine - multiple authors.
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Humour
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Indexed
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Neat, simple graph showing the vaccines/autism link.
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Mr Deity
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Hilarious videos featuring the trinity... and Lucy (lucifer).
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The God Faq
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Everything you'll ever need to know about God.
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Landover Baptists
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Unsubtle, hilarious parody of a Baptist Church Website.
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Pray to God...
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...and your prayers will be answered.
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Skeptico
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The 'Woo' handbook for debating with skeptics...
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Skeptical Manifesto
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Things people believe, which are all bunk.
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Phil Plait
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A Poem Beyond Belief.
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Anti-Evolution
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The writer actually intends for this to be taken seriously!
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Godless Geeks
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Proofs that god exists.
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Ultimate Answer?
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What happens after I die?
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10:23
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How does Homeopathy work?
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