The Smug Baldy Speaks

From Satire and Comment we have the miraculous story of an atheist that found an image of Big Bang in piece of toast: “I was just about to spread the butter when I noticed a fairly typical small hole in the bread surrounded by a burnt black ring. However, the direction and splatter patterns of [...]

You’re surrounded by Ghost Whisperers, Allison DuBuois, and freaky kids seeing dead people, so it’s only (super)natural to ask yourself, “Hey, could I be psychic?” Take our little test and find out if you have a hidden psychic ability. Have any of these things ever happened to you?

OK – I am beginning to love GarageBand. I spent about an hour today putting together my first podcast episode. I apologize for how rough this is, but I figured that, since this blog is called the Smug Baldy Speaks, and I had always planned to put some podcasting together, I should actually get started. [...]

 

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Over on StupidEvilBastard recently, someone (not naming names) forgot “That guy with the million dollar challenge” for psychics. That guy, if you don’t know, is the esteemed James Randi, of the James Randi Educational Foundation (or JREF). Mr. Randi has been debunking kooks and frauds for years, and the JREF recently announced that it was [...]

Last year we took a look at the 2006 predictions of self-described psychic, Sylvia Browne. We had to wait until the 2007 in order to be able to make a fair judgment of her psychic predictions for 2006. Since it’s now 2008, let’s go back and track how well Sylvia Brown’s predictions for 2007 hold [...]

In the latest issue of the eSkeptic newsletter is a link to an interesting debate held at Cal-Tech between Dinesh D’Souza and Michael Shermer over the relationship between science and religion. In this debate on what are arguably two of the most important questions in the culture wars today — Is Religion a Force for [...]

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 parts, I [...]

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 [...]

The news out of Frankfort, KY is that Park Rangers in the state are increasingly challenged by visitors who had also visited the Creation Museum: The Creation Museum, which presents the Bible’s creation story as fact supported by science, was opened in late May in Petersburg by the Answers in Genesis Christian ministry. And there [...]

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 to [...]