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David Kirby: Evidence of Lazy Editors There are two reasons why I write for this blog. The first is from that part of me that’s altruistic. From the minute I knew the New York City Skeptics existed, I wanted to do what I could to help the organization out, and when all is said and [...] (For further discussion please read the continuation here.) No this is not a new game akin to 6-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon. Unlike Sarah Palin, I don’t read “all” periodicals, but I have a few favorites… the HuffPo is not one of them. Their editorials tend to come off as tirades by individuals who like to hear themselves talk… type… whatever. [...] I’m not sure I should be even writing this article. I’m worried I’m going to encounter some kind of quantum news effects, where if I somehow manage to probe into the inner workings of American Media, maybe I’ll accidentally send one electron flying off in the wrong direction, letting off some cascade that erases exactly [...] NECSS, The Northeast Conference on Science & Skepticism, was my first skeptical meeting. And since I was helping out behind the scenes, I may have a slightly biased view of the event. But I actually came away with a very different impression than that of my fellow blogger, The Quixotic Man (TQM). And since I [...] I’ve been writing for various internet publications now for going on two years. It’s not a long time to a lot of people, but for me, it feels like a while. It started out easy. Like with all writing. There’s that early work you do where you had like five or six things to say [...] |
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