Daniel_Loxton
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RT @ Look, reasonable people can disagree. I envy them.
about 13 hours ago
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in reply to MySecondEmpire
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Live in one hour with Bruce Schneier, to talk about his book "Liars and Outliers" Join the chat!
about 13 hours ago
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@ That's adorable!
about 16 hours ago
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in reply to cocolovealcorn
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@ It sure teaches caution about inferring motives & arguing from the apparently self-evident. The mindreading fallacy is a doozy.
about 16 hours ago
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in reply to badrescher
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More instructive as a writing exercise is to note ease w which glaring bias, speculation, and error creep in when people critique outgroups.
about 17 hours ago
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Often outsider critiques land some palpable hits. That's always sort of humbling and cringeworthy, but not especially relevant to writing.
about 17 hours ago
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I find it a helpful writing exercise to read outside critiques of groups in which I belong—paranormalists on skeptics, rel folks on atheists
about 17 hours ago
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What an exciting thing to be part of! RT @ Sincere and *very* big congrats to @ for her new job at @. Yay!
4:37 PM Jun 2nd
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in reply to BadAstronomer
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Donated to @'s project to get more women to . TAM isn't TAM w/o smart women rocking the place w/ their Brains, Body, Science
11:29 AM Jun 2nd
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@ @ I said, "Humble is the opposite of what the rooster does"—then flapped my wings & crowed "LOOK AT ME! I'M THE BEST!"
11:49 AM Jun 2nd
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in reply to starstryder
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Teaching a six year old the word "humble." That's actually sort of a tricky one to define for a little kid. Thank god for roosters.
11:24 AM Jun 2nd
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@ Hopefully next time ?
9:31 PM Jun 1st
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in reply to cdnfish
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If you missed my post late-late last night, here are more thoughts on the X-men and biological
4:51 PM Jun 1st
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Making fluffy cloud brushes in Photoshop.
3:07 PM Jun 1st
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Stephanie Hall's 1999 paper "Folklore and the Rise of Moderation Among Organized Skeptics"—v recent by skep standards
12:23 AM Jun 1st
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"Suddenly one of the participants, @, stood up and shouted 'Run for your lives! It's science!'"
12:20 AM Jun 1st
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@ Psych of skeptics is a fair subject for research—if done by qualified psychologists in a legit spirit of scientific investigation
7:07 PM May 31st
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in reply to SteveVolk
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@ Dude, we should ALL by striving for the highest standards—the least judgement and the least speculation—that we can manage.
7:04 PM May 31st
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in reply to SteveVolk
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@ When skeptics boldly speculate about motivations ('seeking to cravenly manipulate people") this is rightly thought to be sketchy
7:02 PM May 31st
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in reply to SteveVolk
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Sigh: "[Randi] is a candidate for serious psychological examination," exaggerates/speculates @
7:00 PM May 31st
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in reply to SteveVolk
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- Name Daniel Loxton
- Web http://www.skepti...
- Bio Editor of Junior Skeptic (kids' critical thinking periodical bound inside Skeptic magazine) and author of Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be
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