{"id":1037,"date":"2009-04-02T05:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/04\/the-abcs-of-skepticism.html"},"modified":"2009-04-02T05:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T10:37:00","slug":"abcs-of-skepticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/04\/abcs-of-skepticism.html","title":{"rendered":"The ABC&#8217;s of Skepticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Plait, who writes the very excellent blog <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\">Bad Astronomy<\/a>, was particularly on his game when he penned <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/03\/30\/the-abcs-of-skepticism\/\">a poem<\/a> that rather sums up the state of science out there in the wild.  An excerpt is below, but <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/03\/30\/the-abcs-of-skepticism\/\">click through<\/a> for the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>A Poem Beyond Belief<\/strong> by Phil Plait<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:+1;\"><strong>A<\/strong><\/span> is <a linkindex=\"23\" href=\"http:\/\/fallacyfiles.org\/adhomine.html\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/fallacyfiles.org\/adhomine.html?ref=http_\/\/digg.com\/page3');\">Ad hominem<\/a>, attacks quite insulting,<br \/>They may <em>feel<\/em> good but no good is resulting.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:+1;\"><strong>B<\/strong><\/span> is for <a linkindex=\"24\" href=\"http:\/\/skepticsannotatedbible.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/skepticsannotatedbible.com\/?ref=http_\/\/digg.com\/page3');\">Bible<\/a>, they swear it\u2019s all true,<br \/>But so do the Muslims, and Buddhists, and Jews.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:+1;\"><strong>C<\/strong><\/span> is <a linkindex=\"25\" href=\"http:\/\/www.talkorigins.org\/faqs\/faq-meritt.html\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/www.talkorigins.org\/faqs\/faq-meritt.html?ref=http_\/\/digg.com\/page3');\">Creation<\/a>, 6000 years past;<br \/>But when looked at the evidence is always half-assed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:+1;\"><strong>D<\/strong><\/span> is <a linkindex=\"26\" href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/www.snopes.com?ref=http_\/\/digg.com\/page3');\">Debunker<\/a>, it\u2019s said with a jeer.<br \/>But we cannot debunk without <em>bunk<\/em>, that is clear.<\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-size:+1;\"><strong>E<\/strong><\/span>: <a linkindex=\"27\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skepdic.com\/evp.html\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker('\/outbound\/www.skepdic.com\/evp.html?ref=http_\/\/digg.com\/page3');\">EVP<\/a>, hearing voices&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Plait, who writes the very excellent blog Bad Astronomy, was particularly on his game when he penned a poem<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/04\/abcs-of-skepticism.html\" title=\"Read The ABC&#8217;s of Skepticism\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}