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Tabletop Transitional – An action movie for skeptics

February 28th, 2011 | Category: tabletop transitionals

I would watch this so hard. Make it happen, Zach Weiner.

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What really *is* in vaccines?

September 17th, 2010 | Category: skepticism

Brian Dunning, the man behind the excellent Skeptoid podcast, has a video series also geared at skepticism called inFact, which is pretty much Skeptoid episodes in a visual format. For the casual Internet user, video is usually preferred over embedded audio, which makes it a superior format for general skeptical and scientific outreach.

This most recent inFact video is about the ingredients in vaccines, which is an issue that a lot of the public has been misled about in recent years by the [...]

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The facts about Andrew Wakefield and MMR, in picture story form

May 19th, 2010 | Category: skepticism

Thanks to @ilikeportello (Matt) and @spoon579 (Rob) on Twitter for this most excellent find!

If you’re a casual skeptic, or know a little about skepticism, you’ll know that a large target for the, er, injection of critical thinking and rationality in recent years has been the anti-vaccination movement. If you’re a little more serious about your skepticism, you’ll know that the man at the root of this anti-science hysteria is Andrew Wakefield, a (former) surgeon who published some pretty dodgy research in 1998 about the [...]

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