<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/089d2181-7dff-41c4-8d20-e7280cf1f11a/4B9015AD-0995-4CA9-976E-86A854EDCE5A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/30/the-abcs-of-skepticism/" href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/30/the-abcs-of-skepticism/" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.discovermagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/30/the-abcs-of-skepticism/"><STRONG>A Poem Beyond Belief</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/30/the-abcs-of-skepticism/"><P><FONT size="+1"><STRONG>A</STRONG></FONT> is <A target="_blank" href="http://fallacyfiles.org/adhomine.html">Ad hominem</A>, attacks quite insulting, They may <EM>feel</EM> good but no good is resulting.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/30/the-abcs-of-skepticism/"><P><FONT size="+1"><STRONG>B</STRONG></FONT> is for <A target="_blank" href="http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/">Bible</A>, they swear it’s all true, But so do the Muslims, and Buddhists, and Jews.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/30/the-abcs-of-skepticism/"><P><FONT size="+1"><STRONG>C</STRONG></FONT> is <A target="_blank" href="http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-meritt.html">Creation</A>, 6000 years past; But when looked at the evidence is always half-assed.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/30/the-abcs-of-skepticism/"><P><FONT size="+1"><STRONG>E</STRONG></FONT>: <A target="_blank" href="http://www.skepdic.com/evp.html">EVP</A>, hearing voices of dead, but it’s really just patterns of sound you are fed.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/30/the-abcs-of-skepticism/"><P><FONT size="+1"><STRONG>G</STRONG></FONT> is for <A target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzEaTqzMjnA">Geller</A>, a spoon he will bend, Is it magic or powers, or more likely pretend?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/30/the-abcs-of-skepticism/"><P><FONT size="+1"><STRONG>H</STRONG></FONT>, <A target="_blank" href="http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/homeo.html">Homeopathy</A>, infinite dilution, Perhaps better known as persistent delusion.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/30/the-abcs-of-skepticism/"><P><FONT size="+1"><STRONG>M</STRONG></FONT>: <A target="_blank" href="http://www.universetoday.com/category/2012/">Mayans</A> said: doom in Twenty Oh Twelve, In 2013 those predictions we’ll shelve.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/30/the-abcs-of-skepticism/"><P><FONT size="+1"><STRONG>P</STRONG></FONT>: Faces in patterns is called <A target="_blank" href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/category/pareidolia/">Pareidolia</A>, In clouds it’s mundane but in pastry it’s holier?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/30/the-abcs-of-skepticism/"><P><FONT size="+1"><STRONG>Q</STRONG></FONT> is for <A target="_blank" href="http://www.quackwatch.org">Quacks</A>, their science is lacking, They’ll sell you snake oil with the government’s backing.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/30/the-abcs-of-skepticism/"><P><FONT size="+1"><STRONG>S</STRONG></FONT>: <A target="_blank" href="http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/sylvia-browne.html">Sylvia Browne</A>, who randomly guesses, That people believe her is why it depresses.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/30/the-abcs-of-skepticism/"><P><FONT size="+1"><STRONG>W</STRONG></FONT>’s for <A target="_blank" href="http://skepdic.com/woowoo.html">Woo-woo</A>, Randi’s favorite word choice, And who’ll argue with him? 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