Showing posts with label skeptic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skeptic. Show all posts
Thursday, June 10, 2010

Ghosts: An Endangered Species?

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Copyright 2010 by Gary Pullman For various reasons, from humanity’s earliest days, the spirits of the dead, or ghosts, are alleged to have v...
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Friday, May 22, 2009

Ghosts: An Endangered Species?

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman Figure 1. Double exposure Source: The Skeptic's Dictionary For various reasons, from humanity’s earlie...
Friday, December 12, 2008

Fallacious Horrors

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman According to The Skeptic’s Dictionary , an ad hoc hypothesis “is one created to explain facts that seem to...
Saturday, April 19, 2008

How to Haunt a House: Part V

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In the four previous posts in this series, we deduced a number of principles, or rules, that apply, in gen...
Friday, February 15, 2008

Alternative Explanations, Part IV: Vampires, Werewolves, and Zombies

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In “Alternative Explanations, Part III: Telekinetic Characters,” we considered ways by which skeptics seek...

Alternative Explanations, Part III: Telekinetic and Levitating Characters

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In “Alternative Explanations, Part II: Clairvoyants,” we considered ways by which skeptics seek to debunk ...
Thursday, February 14, 2008

Alternative Explanations, Part II: Clairvoyants

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In “Alternative Explanations, Part I: Demons and Ghosts,” we considered ways by which skeptics seek to deb...