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Woo Fighters · 11M ago

A Woo Fighter Swan Song

First, the swan song: three undergraduate students are on their way to The Amaz!ng Meeting 9 this year, but they need your help. They have raised about half of the amount they need to cover registration and travel expenses, but they still have nearly $1,000 to raise. Please consider purchasing a Wo
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Woo Fighters · 12M ago

WooDoo Dolls are Here!

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Woo Fighters · 1Y ago

Professional Standards Among Psychics

Last night, as I was falling asleep, I heard on the radio an ad I had never heard before: Click here for a link to the ad audio It was for California Psychics, apparently a huge organization that has its hands in everything ‘psychic’. I did a little Google search and found that they’ve been around f
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Woo Fighters · 1Y ago

New 13th Sign of the Zodiac!

Apparently there’s a new zodiac sign. They added “Ophiuchus” in last month of the year. So if you loved your old one, you might not have it anymore. Personally, I was right on the cusp of Taurus and Gemini. Some horror-scopes had me as setting Taurus and others had me as a rising Gemini. Well, all t
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Woo Fighters · 1Y ago

Vaccines and Autism: Faked

Sorry about the breaks between postings here on Woo Fighters. I will try to increase my postings as I come across interesting things on the internet. This story came out a few days ago: Medical journal: Study linking autism, vaccines is ‘elaborate fraud’ This the type of thing we here at Woo Fighter
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Woo Fighters · 1Y ago

Silly News Magazines: Confusing Correlation with Causation

I was perusing a website today and I stumbled across a headline that bothered me: Does Being Left-Handed Make You Angry? In this Time Magazine blog on health-related news, the author discusses findings from a correlational study of tympanic membrane temperature and dominant handedness. Without going
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Woo Fighters · 1Y ago

TAM 8 Summary – Sunday (Part 1)

Paper presentations make up the majority of Sunday, with a handful of workshops taking place in the afternoon. Checking out of the hotel and preparing for the trip home required us to miss a few talks, but those that I did see were very interesting. Brian Hart started off, discussing actions taken
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Woo Fighters · 1Y ago

TAM 8 Summary – Saturday (Part 2)

Bringing the first batch of Saturday’s humor (besides MC Hal Bidlack of course!), David Javerbaum held a Q&A session about being executive producer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In response to accusations that The Daily Show is sexist, Javerbaum replied that the letter was the kind of reporti
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Woo Fighters · 1Y ago

TAM 8 Summary – Saturday (Part 1)

Saturday proved to be another rousing conference of diverse minds and varied expertise, beginning with further perspectives on the state and position of skepticism movement, drifting into talks of aliens and paranormal investigations, and concluding with an interview of one of the world’s most famo
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Woo Fighters · 1Y ago

Skepticism: A Double-Edged Sword? A Philosophical View

After a long day of working as a slave/intern at a prestigious university on the other side of the country, I came home to my summer sublet, plopped down on my rented bed and called my mother. The usual small-talk ensued, recounting my long day of data coding and having to walk miles in the humid
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