Yep, even skeptics need a vacation. I’ll be off for about a month.
Thanks to all those that have written in. I really appreciate hearing from you.
See you all again in late August or early Spetember.
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You too, can be at the centre of the universe – for $63.00
Can you imagine how lucky I am, living here in Calgary? My home town is a site of a great convergence, a gathering of two of the worlds greatest flakes – Deepak Chopra and Sylvia Browne. Actually three flakes, Sarah Palin is coming too, but she is somewhat off topic for this blog.
Deepak, evidently, has come and gone. I missed him. You’d think that would be hard to do, given that attendees were taught the 7 Keys to Joy and Enlightenment. Read the rest of this entry »
Okay, this may not be as big as news as Tiger’s apology (it was an apology, right?) but ASkepticRTN is back in operation.
Visitors to www.askepticrtn.com may have noticed a host of troubles with our little website over the past few weeks. It turns out we were the target of some hackers that planted malicious code throughout our site. Visitors to ASkepticRTN were treated to all sorts of nastiness.
I’m not very techie and it took the help of some friends to track down and eliminate the code. The cost of openness I suppose. Evidently, the ease with which people can post comments etc. also makes it easy to hack the site. We are not going to change.
Anyway, we are back.
Just in time too, as things are beginning to get interesting. It turns out some of the world’s greatest flakes and hucksters are descending on my little home town of Calgary to peddle healing and spiritualism by thoroughly engaging people in new age gobbledygook. At upwards of $100 per seat.
Stay tuned.
I feel great now that I am praying for Haiti
Thanks to all who wrote wondering where I was. I have been here, but taking a break over the holidays.
Outside of a piece concerning the Canadian Cancer Society’s recent endorsement and promotion of medical quackery, I haven’t written anything since mid December, despite having plenty to write about, courtesy of the Calgary Herald (Canada’s Largest Christian Daily). Fortunately, most of what the Calgary Herald had to say over the holidays of concern to skeptics came in the form of trivial remarks or minor pieces. Read the rest of this entry »
Even skeptics need to take a break every so often. I am taking mine now. Thanks for your comments and emails. I’ll be back at my post late July.
The scale of tsunami disaster in Asia is almost beyond comprehension. As I sit down and write this, estimates of the death toll are passing 100,000 and will go higher. Whole towns have disappeared from the face of the earth. Families have been destroyed, some friends will never be heard from again. Read the rest of this entry »