42nd Skeptics Circle

The 42nd edition of the Skeptics Circle is up at ImmunoBlogging. Beware of zombies! Aiieeeee!

Anyway, as usual, the circle is chock full of great skeptical writing (it’s a collection of skeptical blog entries from the past two weeks). But don’t believe me! Find out for yourself.

September 1st, 2006 9:41 AM by Phil Plait in Antiscience, Astronomy, Cool stuff, Debunking, Humor, Science, Skepticism | 4 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

4 Responses to “42nd Skeptics Circle”

1. Andy Says:
September 1st, 2006 at 2:36 pm

You are planning to make a lot of “42″ jokes, right?

right?
2. Jack Hagerty Says:
September 1st, 2006 at 6:36 pm

Andy Says: “You are planning to make a lot of â€œ42â€³ jokes, right?”

Nah, that would be too all-encompanssing.
3. icemith Says:
September 2nd, 2006 at 4:55 am

I’m all for too encompassing.

Ivan.
4. David Ecklein Says:
September 2nd, 2006 at 6:36 am

This is all good stuff, but most of these involve beating dead horses that are not found on the roads I most often travel.

Lately, I have more frequently come across echoes of the bizarre (to me) Griffen/Jones theory that government sappers were responsible for 9/11 in a Bush pre-event conspiracy. That there is a post-event administration conspiracy to exploit this event for the justification of the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions seems obvious and still proven by daily events and statements. I am agnostic on the question of the extent of administration foreknowledge (the notion that perhaps they had intelligence that something was up, let it happen as a pretext for policy), since this pattern has been suggested with some evidential support in the the case of the Rooosevelt administration vs. the Japanese prior to Peal Harbor.

Early on, skeptic Michael Shermer briefly attacked this theory, but a thorough debunking of the Griffin/Jones proposition is still missing. It would be worth a book. Its proponents have several already on the market, selling well to wishful thinkers.

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