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	<description>So we keep asking, over and over, until a handful of earth stops our mouths - but is that an answer?</description>
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		<title>The end is near?</title>
		<link>http://www.sciskep.com/2009/05/25/the-end-is-near/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 15:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vaccination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In West Palm Beach, Florida, the Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses are beginning their convention season by hosting 14 consecutive weeks of conventions.  That&#8217;s a lot of doom and gloom, considering that this year&#8217;s theme is &#8220;Keep On The Watch!&#8221;, relating current world events such as earthquakes and the swine flu to biblical prophecies of the apocalypse.  Heavy [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Milky Way rise&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sciskep.com/2009/05/19/milky-way-rise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 03:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve seen sunrises and moonrises, but have you ever seen a Milky Way rise? The Milky Way is the galaxy our solar system resides in, contains at least 200 billion stars, and it&#8217;s a pretty magnificent sight if you get to see it in a truly dark sky. Unfortunately, most people live in towns and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>An open letter to Oprah&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sciskep.com/2009/05/18/an-open-letter-to-oprah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 21:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Vaccination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spoken for the truth. Shirley Wu has gained a new reader here, and I suggest you check out what she has to say to Oprah Winfrey in her blog over the fact that Ms. Winfrey has decided to endorse Jenny McCarthy and her anti-vax nonsense.  Thanks for the post, Shirley &#8211; here&#8217;s hoping she reconsiders!]]></description>
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		<title>Acupuncture doesn&#8217;t work, although it may help&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sciskep.com/2009/05/11/acupuncture-doesnt-work-although-it-may-help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciskep.com/2009/05/11/acupuncture-doesnt-work-although-it-may-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 00:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Acupuncture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pseudoscience]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wait, what?  How can something that doesn&#8217;t work, help?  And if it helps, doesn&#8217;t that mean it works? There is a new study out today (Reuters, Seattle PI) from the Group Health Center for Health Studies that shows acupuncture provides at least some benefit to people with chronic lower back pain.  I&#8217;m sure that acupuncture [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Science is fun&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sciskep.com/2009/05/09/science-is-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 19:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Honestly, if this was how science was taught in every classroom, we&#8217;d have a nation of scientific geniuses and a lot of great comedians.]]></description>
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		<title>Jenny McCarthy and Oprah Winfrey teaming up to kill children&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sciskep.com/2009/05/08/jenny-mccarthy-and-oprah-winfrey-teaming-up-to-kill-children/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciskep.com/2009/05/08/jenny-mccarthy-and-oprah-winfrey-teaming-up-to-kill-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 20:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[sciskep]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vaccination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Slate has an excellent article out titled Say It Ain&#8217;t So, O, which takes on Oprah&#8217;s support of celebrity vaccine denialist Jenny McCarthy, she of Playboy Playmate fame and absolutely no medical credentials whatsoever.  (The one thing Slate gets wrong is calling McCarthy a &#8220;skeptic&#8221; - see the difference between a true skeptic and a denialist [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A little humor&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sciskep.com/2009/05/05/a-little-humor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciskep.com/2009/05/05/a-little-humor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 15:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are lots of great skeptical cartoons out there, and I don&#8217;t think this one is especially new, but it always gives me a good chuckle&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Skepticism versus denial&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sciskep.com/2009/05/04/skepticism-versus-denial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciskep.com/2009/05/04/skepticism-versus-denial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 20:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Reason and Skepticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  There are many examples of words that mean different things depending on whether they&#8217;re used in a casual or common manner, or whether they&#8217;re used in a scientific manner.  The word theory, for example, is often used as a synonym for guess or hunch in common usage, and in everyday talk, this is usually [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>How could we affect the Earth?  Here&#8217;s how&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sciskep.com/2009/04/27/how-could-we-affect-the-earth-heres-how/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciskep.com/2009/04/27/how-could-we-affect-the-earth-heres-how/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[sciskep]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://seattlekarma.wordpress.com/?p=120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Awesome post a couple of days ago over at Starts With A Bang.  It&#8217;s titled, &#8220;How Could We Affect The Earth?&#8220;, and it details in layman&#8217;s terms what exactly we&#8217;re talking about here.  It&#8217;s said that there are lies, damned lies, and statistics, but there is no arguing with simple numbers that undeniably show we [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome, President Obama&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sciskep.com/2009/01/20/welcome-president-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciskep.com/2009/01/20/welcome-president-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reason and Skepticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://seattlekarma.wordpress.com/?p=101</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have looked forward to this day for a long time, perhaps all my life.  A politician has entered the highest office in the land, and he&#8217;s articulate, visionary and highly intelligent.  Who woulda thunk it?  We have had smart presidents in my lifetime before, and even articulate presidents (Bill Clinton comes to mind).  But [&#8230;]]]></description>
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