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		<title>Landmark Forum — Undercover cult</title>
		<link>http://www.youngausskeptics.com/2010/07/landmark-forum-undercover-cult/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Rankin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A common device new age products use is the method of keeping their descriptions wafer thin. The Secret mastered the use of getting people to read an entire book under the general guise of the powers of wishful thinking. So when a book,  religion, or in this case a self help philosophy can cram in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Discovery Institute is correct — intelligent design is not creationism</title>
		<link>http://www.youngausskeptics.com/2010/07/the-discovery-institute-is-correct-intelligent-design-is-not-creationism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.youngausskeptics.com/2010/07/the-discovery-institute-is-correct-intelligent-design-is-not-creationism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Scanlan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross posted from Homologous Legs The title of this post may be controversial, but I assure that I haven’t lost my mind… just yet. What I want to address is a point that needs to be addressed if the scientific community, especially the part of the community that communicates science to the public, is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Edward on the 7pm Project</title>
		<link>http://www.youngausskeptics.com/2010/06/john-edward-on-the-7pm-project/</link>
		<comments>http://www.youngausskeptics.com/2010/06/john-edward-on-the-7pm-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>skelliot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Edward appears on the 7pm Project and discusses how he has been joking all along and he is really a POE. That little scamp! He has been tricking us all along. Just kidding. Edward is up to his old tricks again spewing unscientific mumbo jumbo. Oh…and he does animals as well. John Edward is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>@Statelibrarywa Promoting Dangerous Pseudoscience — Not Really A Fairy Tale About Meryl Dorey And The AVN</title>
		<link>http://www.youngausskeptics.com/2010/05/state-library-of-western-australia-promoting-dangerous-pseudoscience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.youngausskeptics.com/2010/05/state-library-of-western-australia-promoting-dangerous-pseudoscience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 23:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kylie Sturgess</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Australian Vaccination Network]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kylie Sturgess]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.youngausskeptics.com/?p=6458</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The State Library does not make any judgment about individuals, groups or organizations, unless there is a clear breach of law, policies or procedures, in which case we may act to exclude clients. I acknowledge your opposition to the Australian Vaccination Network but this does not provide grounds for the State Library to exclude this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pseudoscientific Arguments — A Simple Guide For Proving Anything</title>
		<link>http://www.youngausskeptics.com/2010/04/pseudoscientific-arguments-a-simple-guide-for-proving-anything/</link>
		<comments>http://www.youngausskeptics.com/2010/04/pseudoscientific-arguments-a-simple-guide-for-proving-anything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 23:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tsunami</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Medicine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Logic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While looking through the science section at EzineArticles.com, I found an article which disputed the reliability of twin studies in psychology research. This in itself is not a bad thing. There are some methodological issues with twin studies. But the author’s main arguments were that twin studies don’t involve DNA testing, that the research results [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just a question for intelligent design proponents hostile to abiogenesis…</title>
		<link>http://www.youngausskeptics.com/2010/03/just-a-question-for-intelligent-design-proponents-hostile-to-abiogenesis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.youngausskeptics.com/2010/03/just-a-question-for-intelligent-design-proponents-hostile-to-abiogenesis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Scanlan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creationism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abiogenesis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denyse O'Leary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discovery Institute]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.youngausskeptics.com/?p=6171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[…such as Denyse O’Leary and basically every other member of the Discovery Institute (run-of-the-mill creationists might find this applicable to themselves as well): If certain origin of life experiments are invalid because they involve intelligent agents setting their starting conditions to certain levels of complexity, are historical re-enactments and museum exhibits also invalid? Both involve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s All About the Brain.</title>
		<link>http://www.youngausskeptics.com/2010/03/its-all-about-the-brain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.youngausskeptics.com/2010/03/its-all-about-the-brain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Bayard</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Phineas Gage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.youngausskeptics.com/?p=5849</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are often told that the brain is the most complicated organ in the human body, that its functions and activities are shrouded in mystery. This is certainly true. We really don’t know about a lot of the things the brain does or how it does them. There has been and continues to be, extensive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rom Houben wasn’t communicating after all.</title>
		<link>http://www.youngausskeptics.com/2010/02/rom-houben-wasnt-communicating-after-all/</link>
		<comments>http://www.youngausskeptics.com/2010/02/rom-houben-wasnt-communicating-after-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bastard Sheep</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.youngausskeptics.com/?p=5776</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Three months ago I wrote a blog post both here and at my blog about the case of Ron Houben, a man who was left in a vegetative state after a car crash. Some uncouth attention seekers decided to abuse this man, his family, and their dignity for their own 15 minutes of fame by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science, Pseudo-Science and the Supernatural</title>
		<link>http://www.youngausskeptics.com/2010/02/science-pseudo-science-and-the-supernatural/</link>
		<comments>http://www.youngausskeptics.com/2010/02/science-pseudo-science-and-the-supernatural/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jarrah Reay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pseudoscience]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.youngausskeptics.com/?p=5727</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When debating claims of astrology, extra-sensory perception, medicine, ghosts, intelligent design, and religion, it is often argued that they are beyond science, that science doesn’t have the tools to study them. These arguments stem from a lack of understanding of how science operates. Science is the gathering of observable, empirical and measurable evidence which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amusing Marketing Tidbits</title>
		<link>http://www.youngausskeptics.com/2010/02/amusing-marketing-tidbits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.youngausskeptics.com/2010/02/amusing-marketing-tidbits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Fridman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[99% of marketing material is stupid, which in addition to being a source of frustration can be a source of entertainment. Here are two items I recently encountered. Item the First While holidaying in northern New South Wales over the new year, I came across this pamphlet about healing and Reiki. It was the most [...]]]></description>
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