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		<title>John Edward Performance Reviewed</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Edward, Psychic Medium, October 2009 performance at the Civic Center
[The following short essay was submitted to the Post-Standard newspaper. The Post-Standard did not print the piece, even though they often publish opinion pieces of this length, nor did they contact us to ask for editorial changes or to shorten the piece. We view our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review of When God is Gone, Everything is Holy: The Making of a Religious Naturalist</title>
		<link>http://cnyskeptics.org/2009/06/review-of-when-god-is-gone-everything-is-holy-the-making-of-a-religious-naturalist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Review by David Harding
Can a person not believe in God, and yet still be religious?  In his latest book, former Boston Globe science writer and professor of physics at Stonehill College Chet Raymo argues that you can.  Raised in a traditional Catholic family and a graduate of Notre Dame in the early 1960s, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus Interrupted Book Review</title>
		<link>http://cnyskeptics.org/2009/04/jesus-interrupted-book-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Harding
Many Christians in America believe that the Bible is an inerrant and thoroughly consistent book, though virtually no reputable biblical scholar has believed this for over a century.  In his most recent book, Jesus, Interrupted, New Testament scholar and popularizer Bart D. Ehrman sets out to educate lay people about the contradictions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Evolution of Intelligent Design</title>
		<link>http://cnyskeptics.org/2009/01/the-evolution-of-intelligent-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul DesOrmeaux
This article appeared originally in the December 2008 Skeptical Briefs newsletter and is used by permission of the Skeptical Inquirer.
Following is a concise, authoritative, and warped timeline that more or less accurately presents the history and “facts” behind the development of creationism, creation science, Intelligent Design, and more importantly, scientific illiteracy. For an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Evolution to Middle Level Students</title>
		<link>http://cnyskeptics.org/2008/10/teac/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The middle school science classroom is often students’ first contact with a scientific presentation on evolution. This is an expanded version of the author’s article “Evolution and Middle-Level Education: Observations and Recommendations” that was published in the Jan/Feb 2005 issue of NCSE Reports. Note that this article is based primarily on the author’s experience rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Earth History scaled to a 24 hour movie spectacular</title>
		<link>http://cnyskeptics.org/2008/10/earth-history-scaled-to-a-24-hour-movie-spectacular/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Vince Sperrazza
Imagine you’ve settled into a theater to see a 24 hour movie spectacular featuring the history of the earth.
You start at midnight, and for the first 18 hours, (think – day and a half) it’s not exciting. You have plenty of time for naps, food, and bathroom as the movie opens on an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chiropractic: A 100 year struggle from pseudoscience to legitimacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mahlon Wagner, Ph. D.
It is estimated that 75% of all Americans will suffer from lower back pain (LBP) at some time. Treatment of this common ailment has been estimated to cost $24 billion every year. (Compare this to the annual cost for treating lung cancer of $4 billion.) Clearly, if inexpensive spinal manipulation (without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expelled Review</title>
		<link>http://cnyskeptics.org/2008/09/evolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Harding
Ben Stein&#8217;s Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is certainly the most dishonest movie I have ever seen, portraying Intelligent Design supporters as political martyrs to Big Science, academia as the equivalent to the USSR, and doing everything it can to link Charles Darwin and evolution directly to the Holocaust. It truly is despicable and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evidence</title>
		<link>http://cnyskeptics.org/2008/09/evidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bryce Hand
This letter was featured in the Kansas City Star newspaper on November 9, 2005.
To the Editor:
Tuesday was a sad day for Kansas.
Yes, there is controversy surrounding evolution, but only among nonscientists. Those who reject evolution present no arguments scientists haven’t heard (and adequately countered) again and again, and have no special knowledge that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Clues that &#8220;Alternative&#8221; Might Mean &#8220;Invalid&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://cnyskeptics.org/2008/09/10-clues-that-alternative-might-mean-invalid/</link>
		<comments>http://cnyskeptics.org/2008/09/10-clues-that-alternative-might-mean-invalid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Janet Factor
When the Ithaca Journal began its &#8220;Alternative Ithaca&#8221; series, I turned to it eagerly, hoping to find stories of local residents trying out innovative solutions to life. I expected perhaps to read of people whose homes depended only on solar power, or who practiced sustainable farming. Instead, disappointingly, the Journal has chosen to [...]]]></description>
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