The Skeptic Wire

This week:

- Briefly: Update on Wayne Christian, Castroville TX Graduation Prayer kerfuffle, update on WOAI ghostses, Gail Lowe unconfirmed on the TX SBoE

-Lightning round (please go to the blog [below] for links to discussed articles)

- Cell phones cause cancer?

- Autism One Conference and The Woo of "The Work"...you decide

- Junk DNA and the new Intelligent Design book offering

- And the dogs do their favorite "I'm outside barking at something I'm inside with no clue why I'm barking" and "please let me in why would you lock me out?!" routines

This week:

- Everyone seems to have allergies

- Rover Spirit shuts down

- Corrections

- New Regular Feature: Lightning Round of Topics

- UPdate to Young Conservatives of Texas and LGBT

- Oregon Passes a "No Faith Healing" Law

- Cognitive Dissonance and the Rapture

- Oprah's 25 years is over

- A discussion of the Conservative Right's anti-woman actions and sexism in general

- The dogs try their hand at building a dark energy intensifier to vreate better dog treats.

This week:

- Theta Healing

- John Hagee's church inundated with protesters

- San Antonio playhouse has a gay Jesus play

- Florida bans sex with all animals

- More creationists considering science on the Texas State Board of Education

- Coffee is good for you!

- Morgellens Disease isn't one

- Sirhan Sirhan, Dr. Daniel Brown, and repressed memory therapy

- Tim Minchin is coming to Austin

And: the dogs warm up for an unrecorded aria.

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This Week:

- National Day of Prayer

- San Antonio has ghosts and ghost hunters!

- The coming apocalypse(s)/ Rapture(s)

- Mike Adams' The Gullible Mind Explained

- The unpronouncable Koch brothers hire some faculty in Florida

- Unskeptical local paper pushes ghost kids, bigfoot, nostril breathing

And a lesser- but not unentertaining- shadow show by The resident canines.

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This Week:

- New member of the Holistic Chamber of Commerce

- Update on the Young Conservatives and Wayne Christian

- Texas Political Redistricting

- Ear Candle lawsuit

- Power Bands changes it's tune

- Osama Bin Laden is killed or not, says Alex Jones

- Interview with Berry Lynn from the 1st Amendment Rally in San Antonio

And a regular vaudeville act by dogs in the background.

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This week:

Skeptic Wire Theater in Rep. Christian vs. Western Civilization;

Real Water;

Vaccinations;

Pray for Rain;

Dodgers and Healers;

More on Birthers;

Dr. Novella versus the Wizzard of Oz;

and the continuation of the Dogs Barking in the Background Concerto

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This week:

Charles Manson on Global Warming;

Kate Hudson is a WITCH!;

Non-Fiction books lie;

Psychic gets a hit;

Technology hurts our BRAAAINNSSS!;

Sex phone lines get 800 numbers;

Exorcism gone bad;

Atheists die first?;

Birthers;

Anti-religion (Sharia) Law in Texas;

Holistic Chamber of Commerce;

and, of course, dogs barking in the background

This week:

- the FBI putting up a searchable database at

http://vault.fbi.gov/

where they have a section labelled "Unexplained Phenomenon" for UFO things

- a UFO-caused Crop circle in Texas...and other UFO-y quickies

- the Templeton Prize being given to Martin J. Rees

- JREF Pigasus Awards

- Texas Legislature bills