The Smug Baldy Speaks

In this article, I’ll outline a proposal to utilize a well known conceptual framework to increase our ability to rigorously and dispassionately examine the accuracy of psychic predictions of future events. In part one, I propose two sets of guidelines related to data recoding and validation, as well as data analysis. In later [...]

In part of one True Believer’s drive by on my Sylvia Browne piece, in which the commenter admitted that I amaze her, she said:
Of course, I’m one that doesn’t believe the human race ever had a tail or gills too.
Although she went on to say how she wasn’t, “so closed minded that I refuse [...]

Pat Condell goes on a nice rant about where the limits of Cultural Sensitivity should be in Europe. The take home message? Europeans should stand up and protest the creeping “Islamization” of their culture, and do so to show Americans that they really do have some collective backbone.

Someone posted a stupid comment yesterday in my post about comedian Sylvia Browne’s horrible accuracy for her 2006 predictions, and I wondered why it was that my claims were treated with such disdain, while Sylvia’s wrong predictions (like the one that Arnold Schwarzenegger would lose his re-election bid) were glossed over. Then it occurred [...]

Let’s face it - spam is not going away, not ever. Spam’s resilience in the face of our contempt and outrage is simple to explain: It works. Every so often, there’s a perfect storm of sender and subject line that will entice some poor schmuck to go against his better judgment and open [...]

US Army Col (Ret) Daniel Smith asks some very provocative questions in a recent article on Foreign Policy In Focus:
The headline-grabber read: “U.S. Plans New Arms Sales to Gulf Allies.”
Nothing startling there. For decades the United States has routinely sold or transferred weapons and ammunition, sent military teams abroad or brought foreign military personnel to [...]

Today’s Seed Daily Zeitgeist had a really cool link to a portion of a talk given by Ken Miller about a prediction made by evolution that, if wrong, could allow for the rejection of the entire theory.

Guess we’re not rejecting evolution today. Ain’t science grand?

I saw this over at Skeptico. Rather than simply ridiculing The Secret for the absolute bullshit that it is, The Chaser’s take a better approach: they entertain us while they ridicule The Secret for the absolute bullshit that it is.

Sometimes you just have to make fun of stupidity, especially since it’s immune [...]

In the good old days, the blind led the blind, and even so, snake-oil salesmen were relatively easy to spot. Now the snake-oil is well marketed by cool-looking websites like Overwhelming Evidence, where kids are encouraged to, “communicate their views on intelligent design and evolution”.
Indeed, OE puts the power in student’s [...]

Got this by way of the Gun Toting Liberal.
Congressman Wexler to File Resolution Censuring President Bush for Commuting Libby’s Prison Sentence
(Washington, D.C.) Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) has drafted and will file a Congressional resolution censuring President George W. Bush for his egregious and politically motivated commutation of Scooter Libby’s [...]