The Skeptic Wire

This Week:

00:01:00 Skeptical Birthday: Hertz

00:05:15 Joshua, TX ISD vs Freedom From Religion Foundation (Poll Is Closed now)

http://www.joshuastar.net/ci_20019956

00:09:37 Beware IRS scam

00:12:45 Raw Milk versus Pastuerized milk

Some the websites mentioned

www.cheeseslave.com/top-ten-reasons-to-drink-raw-milk/

www.globalhealingcenter.com

www.rawmilk.org

www.rawmilk.com

www.milkfacts.info

www.fda.gov (search raw milk)

01:08:50 Lightning Round

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/02/26/dogma-overturned-women-can-produce-new-eggs-video/

http://www.livescience.com/18602-horny-man-rock-carving-giant-phallus.html

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2012/02/24/woman-claiming-to-be-psychic-sentenced-to-5-years/

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120228102013.htm

http://newsok.com/scientists-identify-found-objects/article/3653136

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/feb/22/simon-singh-british-chiropractic-association

And the dogs attempt to decipher Heiroglyphic anagramitical jokes found inside bottle tops from ancient Egypt.

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This Week:

00:01:00 Skeptical Birthday: Hertz

00:06:28 Ash Wednesday and Lent and shout outs and stuff

00:12:45 Target targetting soon to be moms and habit-forming

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html

00:34:43 Women in the military

http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/09/women-in-combat-policy-could-change/?hpt=hp_t3

00:45:51 Dawkins hit by a smear campaign

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9091007/Slaves-at-the-root-of-the-fortune-that-created-Richard-Dawkins-family-estate.html

01:06:20 Lightning Round

http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/18/world/asia/nepal-witchcraft-burning/index.html?hpt=hp_t3 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/19/man-trapped-snowed-car-hospital

http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Weather-folklore-that-came-true/mEjvOoiyLE6EEuO3QgbkLw.cspx

http://www2.wsav.com/news/2012/feb/18/local-woman-kicked-out-church-breastfeeding-baby-ar-3257326/ http://blogs.houstonpress.com/eating/2012/02/more_texas_cities_considering.php

http://www.yoplait.com.au/active-life/

And the dogs decide that- what with all the excitement around the house being re-arranged- three people sitting around yipping and yapping at each other isn't as interesting as a nice, long nap.

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00:01:00 Skeptical Birthdays

00:04:20 Medina Valley Judge responds to critics

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/federal_judges_order_takes_swipe_at_politicians_who_demagogued_school_praye/

00:07:00 Roy Zimmerman interview

http://www.royzimmerman.com

00:20:30 Health Care Reform: Religion versus Women's Rights

00:31:50 Amendment added to Oklahoma Personhood bill

00:34:05 Greg's Valentine's Day Song "My Life With You"

You're the perfect gal A dream to behold

When they made you They broke the mold.

You'll keep your looks Even when we're old.

You're the perfect gal A dream to behold.

My life with you Is everything great,

You love what I love, hate what I hate.

The stars got crossed, Ridiculous fate

My life with you Is everything great.

You're a fantasy My ethical slut.

Games behind doors Are never a rut.

Positions and toys And everything but

You're a fantasy My ethical slut.

You're always around When I need to vent.

When trouble's in air You've got the scent.

I've got your ear Your wise two cents.

You're always around When I need to vent.

The walls light up When you're in the room

Aren't we a sight The bride and her groom

Or your glowing face A baby in womb

The walls light up When you're in the room.

Our life together The future's all set.

It's a good thing That we've never met.

You're the picture of Feminine ideal

Be nice to meet, If only for real.

But red gives to green The dream goes a blur

Too bad I'll never Knew who you were.

00:39:57 Song discussion

00:46:47 Gary's Song "Valentine's Day (Chemicals Divine)"

It's February fourteenth and today the skies are blue

So I picked a bunch of flowers That I'm going to give to you

Perhaps it's the dopamine or the norepinephrine

That's putting this smile on my face everytime I think of you

Oh the chemicals divine

They'll fade but til they do I'm feeling fine

And tho I'm wheezing, sneezing 'cause the allergies are kickin me (hyper sensitivity!)

I know there's soothing coming 'cause I popped an anti-histamine

As antagonists block I stop and I take stock

Perhaps I should have waited for a while before I operated this machine

Oh the chemicals divine

They'll fade and when they do I'll feeling hives

I pull up to your house I'm in a floating state

Between the flowers and the drugs and love Instead I should've bought some chocolate

Besides the health effects it is nearly as good as a passionate kiss

And the way I feel with my nose congealed all my cells are going to degranulate

Oh the chemicals divine

They'll fade but til they do I'm feeling high

00:51:16 Song Discussion

00:57:51 Lightning Round

And the dogs SkYipe amongst themselves via their own canine internet, which is a series of Snausage tubes.

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This Week:

00:02:10 Skeptical Birthdays

00:04:57 9th Cicuit Court of Appeals Upholds proposition 8 dismissal

00:09:35 Nick Lee from Atheist Alliance of America and other stuff

00:16:24 Compass ZYTO technology

http://www.naturesessentialoilsonline.com/The-Zyto-Compass.html

00:37:30 Creepy Visitation online - see the blog for the text.

00:50:38 Spanking doesn't work

http://healthland.time.com/2012/02/06/why-spanking-doesnt-work/?iid=biz-main-mostpop2

01:11:48 Lightning Round

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=russian-scientists-poised

http://www.livescience.com/18308-google-earth-update-erases-atlantis.html

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpps/news/florida/florida-teenager-calls-cops-after-hearing-her-mom-have-sex-012612_17407791?obref=obinsite#ixzz1lMqp1gCi

http://sabbsa.org/

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-02-03/news/31022991_1_glacier-ice-patagonia-region-authorities

http://openchannel.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/03/10312840-internet-piracy-suit-asks-can-you-even-copyright-porn

royzimmerman.com

And the dogs drink and growl and play "revolving door" with the dog flap. But for whatever reason avoided the humans while they laughed uncontrollably for 10 minutes.

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This Week:

00:01:38 Skeptical Birthdays

00:08:30 Locks of Love kerfuffle in Michigan

http://abcnews.go.com/US/cancer-survivor-teen-suspended-michigan-school-locks-love/story?id=15472285#.TygHu8VSTLw

00:16:05 Komen Foundation pulls money from Planned Parenthood

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/why-komen-defunded-planned-parenthood/2012/01/31/gIQAACW0fQ_blog.html

00:22:43 Exams for men to get erection pills

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/mandatory-ultrasound-bill-virginia-anti-abortion_n_1242627.html

00:28:53 High heels are not good for you

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/scientists-look-at-the-dangers-of-high-heels/

00:36:53 Atheist Temple in Britain?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092593/Battle-atheists-Alain-Botton-plans-temple-non-believers-heart-London-antidote-Richard-Dawkins-destructive-approach-atheism.html

00:54:24 Lightning Round

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/01/everything-about-learning/?intcid=postnav

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2017329706_alaska26.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16756381

http://www.break.com/index/worlds-worst-church-singer-2292275

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/27/10253843-teens-send-toy-above-the-clouds

01:15:48 Google Ads

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/google-thinks-i-am-find-out-who-google-guesses-you-are/2012/01/26/gIQALirnSQ_blog.html

And the dogs get upset because as goes Planned Parenthood, so goes Planned Puppyhood.

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This Week:

00:01:38 Skeptical Birthdays

00:06:35 TFC DVDs are IN!

www.atheistallianceamerica.org

00:08:47 San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro supports sam sex marriage pledge

00:09:49 Jessica Ahlquist

evillittleshirts.com

00:14:05 Supreme Court rulings...or not

00:25:06 Obama and contraception

00:35:40 Teens thought they couldn't get pregnant

00:49:20 Interview with Fred Edwords from the United Coalition of Reason

01:01:50 Lightning Round with an extra bonus ending!

01:15:48 Shout outs and stuff

And the dogs go in and out and in and out and finally stay in until they decide to go out again.

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This Week:

We skyped it in this week, so there are some audio issues: we're fixing them if we ever happen to do this again.

00:02:30 Skeptical Birthdays

00:07:00 Jennifer Ahlquist update

http://jesusfetusfajitafishsticks.blogspot.com/

00:12:00 SOPA, PIPA, ACTA

00:21:50 Darel Ray INterview for his new book

"Sex and God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality" available here:

http://ipcpress.com/

or get it at Amazon.com

01:18:17 Lightning Round

And the dogs wonder where all the voices are coming from even though nobody else is in the house. "Hmmmm," they ponder, "this is odd."

http://www.reasonrally.org

http://recoveringfromreligion.org/

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This Week:

00:01:25 Intro stuff

Skeptical Birthdays: Rasputin, Stephen Hawking, Robert Stack, Andy Rooney, and newcomer Greg Perrine

Jessica Ahlquist Wins Lawsuit

http://www.jessicaahlquist.com

Reason Rally

Http://www.reasonrally.org

The Response is still around?!

http://www.theresponseusa.com

Some shoutouts!

St. Baldricks

http://www.stbaldricks.org/

Song competition between Gary and Greg and Donna's going to do VOSOT vids

Name Donna's video bits!

00:25:50 British Columbia and HIV and HepC

00:32:30 Is science failing us, as a Wired article says?

00:50:00 Yoga Bad, according to the New York Times

00:57:00 Lightning Round

01:07:00 Holistic Chamber of Commerce

http://www.globalorgasm.org

And no: Steve Schweitzer is NOT part of the Global Consciousness Project. My bad.

And the dogs shut down the power coupling to the tractor beam but don't care much about anything else happening.

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This Week:

00:01:45 Birthdays

00:04:30 Saint Baldrick's Foundation

http://www.stbaldricks.org/

00:08:15 Pink vs. Blue kerfuffle

http://weareskeptixx.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/whats-small-and-cute-and-pink-all-over/

http://skepchick.org/2012/01/intellectual-cage-match-ben-radford-vs-a-4-year-old/

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/01/03/we-still-havent-explained-pink/

00:37:25 Cee Lo Green changes some lyrics

http://www.skeptoid.com/blog/2012/01/02/atheism-imagine-and-cee-lo-green/

http://freethoughtblogs.com/greta/2012/01/02/is-all-religion-true-the-cee-lo-green-thing/

00:45:50 Psychic predictions for 2012

http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_19647649

http://paranormal.about.com/od/othermystics/tp/Psychic-Predictions-For-2011.htm

00:54:45 Psychic Prediction Bingo

01:02:50 Lightning Round

01:15:00 Resolutions and a bunch of other stuff

Lightning Round Links

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/science/in-play-off-between-old-and-new-violins-stradivarius-lags.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16264752

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html

http://www.amnh.org/education/mat/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/dec/25/scour-moon-ancient-traces-aliens?newsfeed=true

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/12/111222-stonehenge-bluestones-wales-match-glacier-ixer-ancient-science/

And the dogs start to get into the spirit of things and begin voicing their own thoughts.

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This Week:

00:0030 Christmas Past

00:07:30 Skepchicks versus Anti-vaxers for New Years Eve http://skepchick.org/2011/12/times-squares-5000-sq-ft-anti-vaccine-party-extravaganza/

00:14:35 Christopher Hitchens tribute

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/arts/christopher-hitchens-is-dead-at-62-obituary.html?pagewanted=all

00:27:50 All deaths come in threes

00:36:37 Chrisopther Hitchens quotes

00:42:50 Holiday myths debunked

http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/22/health/holiday-health-myths/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

00:51:30 Lightning Round

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/21/9614175-perry-i-pray-a-lot-because-im-prone-to-make-a-lot-of-mistakes

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/20/9588670-boys-survival-from-flesh-eating-bacteria-deemed-a-miracle-by-his-family-and-the-pope

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049948/Most-relaxing-song-UK-band-Boffins.html

01:07:45 Sense About Science

http://www.senseaboutscience.org/pages/a4e_postcard.html

(thank you, David Harcourt, for the link)

And some advice about driving, because...y'know...

And the dogs are far more glib than any of the hosts, but take their comments outside.

...in regards to the "African American Ice" comment, it's in reference to jokingly 'correcting' "racist language" by indiscriminantly replacing all uses of the word "black" with "African-American", "red" with "Native American", etc. :-)

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