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What sad, sad news to learn this year's will be the last @QEDcon 
I'm sure there are good reasons from the organisers to have reached this decision, but this was the best skeptical conference in the world. I've learned soooo much there. Where will I learn to be a better skeptic now?
Thank you Mike, @Marsh , @AliceEmmaLouise , Andy, Rick, Nicola, and everyone else behind the scenes!
#QEDcon #Skepticism
Na noite de sexta-feira, a nossa @diraquel vai ser a oradora do Café de Ciência do Centro Ciência Viva de Bragança.
A entrada é livre!
#TeamScience #Cepticismo #PensamentoCrítico #Desinformação #StopPswudociências #Skepticism #Escepticismo #SciComPT #Bragança
Gentes de Bragança!
Sexta-feira, dia 11, terei a honra de ser a convidada do 105° Café de Ciência na belíssima Casa da Seda do Centro Ciência Viva de Bragança. 
Se andarem por perto, venham dizer olá!
Será uma noite de sexta-feira animada - espero!
Os grandes "vencedores" do Prémio Unicórnio Voador 2024 são...
Maria José VilaçaVários políticos do CHEGAO Jornal Sol e Joana Amaral DiasRui Sinel de Cordes
...os grandes propagadores/as de pseudociência e desinformação em Portugal no ano passado.
Uma dura competição!
#UnicórnioVoador 
#Cepticismo #Desinformação #PodiaSerMentira #Skepticism #Escepticismo
https://comcept.org/unicornio-voador/premio-unicornio-voador-2024/
A brief history of The Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit
After decades researching parapsychology and testing paranormal claims, the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmith's closed it's doors for the final time in 2024.
https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/03/a-brief-history-of-the-anomalistic-psychology-research-unit/
Estão a decorrer as votações para o Prémio Unicórnio Voador 2024! 
O Prémio Unicórnio Voador – um prémio feliz para atuações infelizes – é uma distinção concedida pela COMCEPT, por sugestão dos/as internautas, a quem tenha contribuído para a disseminação de pseudociência. Porque os unicórnios até podem existir, o difícil de acreditar é que consigam voar!
Podem votar até 31 de Março.
https://comcept.org/2025/03/13/votacao-para-o-premio-unicornio-voador-2024/
Growing up I read this monthly kids magazine called "Zillions" published by Consumer Reports. It featured reviews by kids of toys and games along with a lot of comics and illustrations.
Also, it had articles about the misleading and manipulative tactics employed by advertisers and brands. It maybe introduced me to some basic skepticism at an earlier age than I would had otherwise.
The magazine went out of print I think around 2001.
Joe Nickell, legendary skeptical investigator, dies at the age of 80
The Skeptic says farewell to Joe Nickell, the enormously prolific skeptical writer and investigator, who died last week.
Tho sometimes you feel gullible, have you ever felt like, atleast sometimes, you feel as skeptical as this child about someone or something?
Once you start questioning the foundations of everything we were told to be true about our own society, many other societies & the whole world, once the mental map we built around how the world really functions starts crumbling, because you recognize all variables laid out by ruling class doesnt fit well as those pieces are artificially stitched-up, even to they dont fit well & all thats holding together is the shared beliefs ruling class created, to legitimize their domination, one that starts, do you have this feeling?
Sometimes, no, a lot of times, esp when looking at systems of power, I fell like this child.
Don’t Be A Dick: revisiting Phil Plait’s 2010 advice to skeptics
In a speech in 2010, Phil Plait implored skeptics to be more compassionate. 15 years on, his advice couldn't be more relevant.
https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2025/02/dont-be-a-dick-revisiting-phil-plaits-2010-advice-to-skeptics/
Project Blue Beam is finally happening… as long as you cherry pick very carefully
'Project Blue Beam' claimed there was proposed a four-step plan for the New World Order taking over, and conspiracy theorists think we're now seeing it
I continue to expand my dictionary of why knowing things is hard even about the past https://www.bookandsword.com/2025/01/11/knowing-things-is-hard/ It got a lot of traffic from a few newsletters, links, shares, donations, or comments are always appreciated. #histodons #historodons #epistemology #skepticism #antiquidons
The Telepathy Tapes – More FC Pseudoscience | Science-Based Medicine
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-telepathy-tapes-more-fc-pseudoscience/
Today's recommendation: wanna know the type of #disinformation and lies being peddled on the #JoeRogan show but don't want to give him listening profits or loose hours and hours of your precious time?
@Marsh and Cecil Cicirello got you covered!
Just listen to #TheKnowRoganExperience, be informed, and support a good project.
#Skepticism #TeamScience #TeamDemocracy #StopDisinformation #SciComm
https://www.knowrogan.com/
"What other explanation can there be?" = "I have no evidence for my belief, so I'm just going to believe it anyway, and if someone calls me out for it, I'll shift the burden of proof onto them even though I'm the one making the claim."
There's a new podcast in town!
Cecil Cicirello and @Marsh created #TheKnowRoganExperience!
"It’s the show for those who are curious about Joe Rogan, his guests, and their claims, as well as for anyone who just wants to understand Joe’s ever growing media influence."
#JoeRogan #Skepticism #NewPodcast #FactChecking #PodcastRecommendation
https://www.knowrogan.com/
Michael Porter The "International Intrigue" newsletter shared this story today, with no comment other than the 
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Jimmy Carter's state funeral just took place, and there's been plenty written about his legacy as US president. But this wild Carter anecdote from a 2005 GQ interview really caught my eye, so I thought I'd share it with you here:
"We had a plane go down in the Central African Republic- a twin engine plane, small plane. And we couldn't find it. And so we oriented satellites that were going around the earth every ninety minutes to fly over that spot where we thought it might be and take photographs. We couldn't find it. So the director of the CIA came and told me that he had contacted a woman in California that claimed to have supernatural capabilities. And she went in a trance, and she wrote down latitudes and longitudes, and we sent our satellite over that latitude and longitude, and there was the plane."
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Translation for the mystically-minded:
The CIA found out where the plane was and they didn't want to tell Carter how they found it.
The world is messy. There is no view from nowhere, no perspective that is free from bias. Science sits within social discourses, not outside them (Kuhn).... Evidence has a provenance. It is irrevocably value-laden. Its generation and exchange involve social -- and often political -- processes. Knowledge is not limited to what we can abstract and generalize; it is also situated and embodied.
-- Trisha Greenhalgh
#Wisdom #Quotes #TrishaGreenhalgh #Bias #Knowledge #Medicine #Research #Science #Skepticism
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