Today is International Skeptics Day, cuz, I guess, what better day than a Friday the 13th on which to call bullshit on superstition and nonsense?
To celebrate, a few of my favorite skeptical resources:
Talk.Origins Archive: good for finding material to battle your crazy cousin who thinks our planet was created on a Tuesday in October, 4004 BC.
Astronomical Pseudo-Science: A Skeptic's Resource List: for dealing with the crazy cousin who “knows” NASA never went to the moon 250,000 miles away but is convinced that aliens from 250,000 light-years away are dropping in for some relaxing cattle mutilation on a regular basis
Archaeological/Skeptical Resources: for the crazy cousin who thinks those cattle-mutilating aliens build the Egyptian pyramids (hey, I like Stargate, too, but c’mon)
Snopes.com: the first place I send well-meaning friends who believe Bill Gates is going to make them rich merely for forwarding emails
Internet Infidels News Wire: all the news that's fit to be blasphemous, or to enrage those who believe in the separation of church and state
Creation & Intelligent Design Watch: cuz half the people you meet have below-average IQs
If you still don’t have a date for International Skeptics Day, there’s always Skeptics Meetup.
And just because it’s fun (not because I believe in it): Geek Astrology.
But I do believe in SF writer Esther Friesner’s cheeblemancy, the ancient art of hamster reading. I’ve experienced the power of the hamster, and lemme tell ya, it’s downright eerie, that little rodent staring at you with its beady little eyes, seeing right into the depths of your very soul. *shudder*
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