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• Boiron Attempts Hypnosis to Save Homeopathy Market

  On Monday October 14 I attended what was advertised as a movie about homeopathy. It was listed in the email that goes out to all staff, faculty…

• QotD: On Correlation and Causation

  A relationship is more likely to be causal if it can be replicated. —Charlie Kufs, Statistician

• Brian Dunning and the Skeptical Community's Blind Spots

  He spoke tonight at Portland State University, sponsored by the Oregonians for Science and Reason. The popular assumptions he challenged were the…

• Regaining Your Hope, Joy, and Peace of Mind after the Election

  I just saw something advertised under that title, and I clicked the link and was disappointed that the page did not come up. I could use some help…

• QotD: Mystical Theory

  For me, the characteristic features of a mystlcial and therefore untrustworthy, theory are that it is not refutable, that it appeals to authority,…

• QotD: Foresight

  Foresight isn't a mysterious gift bestowed at birth. It is the product of particular ways of thinking, of gathering information, of updating…