The 11th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle

Welcome to the 11th Skeptics' Circle that has become a wonderful tradition of skepticism and critical thought.

Table of Contents
- Quackery and Medical Misinformation
- Intelligent Design and Creationism
- Other Pseudoscience
- Urban Legends
- Critical Thinking
- Religion
- Astrology
- History
- Science and the Scientific Method
http://amr2you.blogspot.com/2005/06/11th-meeting-of-skeptics-circle.html

eSkeptic, June 24th, 2005

The Woodstock of Evolution
by Michael Shermer
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/eskeptic05-06-24.html

Jackson's face 'appears on toast'

Michael Jackson fans have come up with a novel form of memorabilia to mark the singer's acquittal on child abuse charges - toast with his face on it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4114248.stm

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Apenas mais um exemplo de pareidolia
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James Randi - June 24, 2005

Silly Book Review, Different Points of View, Politics in Science, Flattered by Imitation, Texas Bum Steer, Science at Work, Another Boring Claim, Totally Convinced, Every-Day Stuff for the JREF, "Animal Planet" Taken to Task, Help, That Law Again, The QXCI Again, and In Closing...
http://www.randi.org/jr/062405silly.html

Conservadores americanos proíbem filmes com teorias darwinianas

Desde o começo do ano, vários cinemas dos Estados Unidos - principalmente no sul, onde a influência religiosa é mais forte - têm se negado a exibir os filmes "Viagem Cósmica", "Vulcões das Grandes Profundezas" e "Galápagos", este último sobre as ilhas onde Darwin pesquisou para formular sua teoria da evolução. O filme sobre os vulcões marinhos "não trata da evolução, mas gerou polêmica, pois fazia referência à origem da vida", explicou Valentine Kass, diretora do programa de educação científica da Fundação Americana de Ciências.
http://noticias.correioweb.com.br/materias.php?id=2643271&sub=Mundo

CSICOP Online (news)

CSICOP Online: Inquiring Minds Newsletter & Skeptics Toolbox
http://www.csicop.org/list/listarchive/msg00485.html

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Dear Kansas: Why stop at "Intelligent Design?" What about Spaghetti Monsters?

This open letter to the Kansas School Board takes it to task for teaching "Intelligent Design" (Biblical Creationism tarted up in scientific dress) in schools. The author points out that there are several compeeting theories that Kansas could teach its students, including the popular thesis that the universe was created by a "Flying Spaghetti Monster." There are pictures, too.

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/06/22/dear_kansas_why_stop.html
http://www.venganza.org/

Onde não se pode criticar, todos os
elogios são suspeitos.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Entrevista na VEJA - "O Islã é fascista", 22-06-2005

Plantas medicinais: cura segura?

Quím. Nova v.28 n.3 São Paulo maio/jun. 2005
Este artigo aborda, em aspectos gerais, alguns casos de toxicidade de plantas medicinais recentemente divulgados, que representam um risco em potencial para a população e alerta para o uso indiscriminado de duas plantas medicinais amplamente utilizadas na Região Amazônica: Croton cajucara e Copaifera sp.

http://tinyurl.com/8glw7

Revista reforça tese da falsidade do Santo Sudário

A revista científica francesa Science et Vie (Ciência e Vida) informou hoje que realizou experiências que provam que o Santo Sudário, considerado por alguns cristãos a relíquia mais sagrada do Catolicismo, é falso. "Uma técnica medieval nos ajudou a produzir um sudário", destacou a publicação na edição que sairá em julho.
http://noticias.terra.com.br/ciencia/interna/0,,OI561709-EI238,00.html

Uso indiscriminado de plantas medicinais é problema

Contaminação, adulteração e falta de comunicação. Os três fatores, aliados a problemas de regulamentação e fiscalização, tornam o uso indiscriminado de plantas medicinais um problema muito maior do que pode parecer.
http://www.jornaldaciencia.org.br/Detalhe.jsp?id=29216

Three in Four Americans Believe in Paranormal

Little change from similar results in 2001

by David W. Moore
A recent Gallup survey shows that just about three in four Americans hold some paranormal belief -- in at least one of the following: extra sensory perception (ESP), haunted houses, ghosts, mental telepathy, clairvoyance, astrology, communicating with the dead, witches, reincarnation, and channeling. There are no significant differences in belief by age, gender, education, or region of the country.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/content/login.aspx?ci=16915

The Least Healthy Diet: Breatharianism

To date, three of Jasmuheen's followers have starved to death. One of them, 53-year-old Lani Morris of Melbourne, was seven days into the breatharian diet when she lost the ability to speak and the use of one arm. When Morris died three days later, Jasmuheen suggested that the woman was "not coming from a place of integrity and did not have the right motivation."
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/06/17/worlds_worst_excerpt.html

Radar Ockham No 8

• O verdadeiro horror de Amytiville
• Cura mediúnica dá cadeia
• Respirando sob a água
• De volta para o futuro
• Rapidinhas
http://www.projetoockham.org/boletim_08.html

Skeptic's Dictionary Newsletter 56

* Two new entries and a few revisions; partnering with Google;
* Data mining for correlations: ibuprofen and fluoridation;
* ID/evolution culture wars;
* A nation of parabelievers;
* Phishing and Internet cons;
* How magnets and bacteria can expand your mind;
* Amway stifles free speech;
* A newsletter for kids.
http://www.skepdic.com/news/newsletter56.html

Crucified nun dies in 'exorcism'

A Romanian nun has died after being bound to a cross, gagged and left alone for three days in a cold room in a convent, Romanian police have said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4107524.stm