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		<title>I&#8217;m irritated a lot.</title>
		<link>http://skepticism.wordpress.com/2006/05/27/im-irritated-a-lot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2006 18:42:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cap'n Refsmmat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps I&#8217;m too irritable. Anyways, there&#8217;s one thing that I&#8217;ve found very irritating, and very debilitating in an argument. It&#8217;s when people make up their minds on what you believe/feel, and refuse to change their opinion about it later. It can ruin your chances in any debate when people think you believe one thing when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=149251&amp;post=12&amp;subd=skepticism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2006 02:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cap'n Refsmmat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But I find blogging boring. Unless, of course, it&#8217;s about something that irritates me. In which case it is fun. But whatever. Perhaps I need to be more irritated.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=149251&amp;post=11&amp;subd=skepticism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A thought</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2006 02:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cap'n Refsmmat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just thought about something, and it&#8217;s (surprise!) yet another thing that irritates me. So, round two. This time, I&#8217;m taking aim at gullible people (no, that word is not in the dictionary, so don&#8217;t bother looking it up). You know, the people who instantly believe what they are told. But that&#8217;s not the biggest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=149251&amp;post=10&amp;subd=skepticism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ignoramus alert!</title>
		<link>http://skepticism.wordpress.com/2006/03/15/ignoramus-alert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2006 03:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cap'n Refsmmat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet Michael Behe, intelligent design advocate. He&#8217;s the guy that came up with irreducible complexity (and later admitted, under oath, that complex biochemical systems could evolve in 20,000 years or so) and still believes it. Apparently, he hasn&#8217;t read my rebuttal of ID. Or any of the other ones. Or any of his own research [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=149251&amp;post=9&amp;subd=skepticism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ignorance is bliss</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2006 02:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cap'n Refsmmat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least, close to it, judging by the amount of willful ignorance I see. Isn&#8217;t modern society delightful?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=149251&amp;post=8&amp;subd=skepticism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What defines a reliable source?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cap'n Refsmmat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is it that makes a particular source valid? We all have seen people using the Bible as historical fact. People will always do that, even though the Bible has been passed down through word-of-mouth several hundred years, translated and retranslated through several different languages, and was modified by others along the way. The Bible [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=149251&amp;post=7&amp;subd=skepticism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fanboyism</title>
		<link>http://skepticism.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/fanboyism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cap'n Refsmmat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fanboyism really irritates me. Let&#8217;s face it, there are a lot of fanboys out there. There are some that believe Windows is the best product ever, some that think Linus Torvalds (the guy who made Linux) is God, some that go nuts over Opera, etc. And they&#8217;re just as bad as religious nutcases when they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=149251&amp;post=6&amp;subd=skepticism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is skepticism?</title>
		<link>http://skepticism.wordpress.com/2006/03/13/what-is-skepticism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2006 02:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cap'n Refsmmat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people like to think that skeptics are people who aren't open-minded, or have latched on to a specific set of ideas and refuse to let go. Many of them discount skeptics as not considering the evidence properly, or even refusing to see evidence against what they believe.

Unfortunately, that's exactly what the accusers are like.

So, something to consider: what exactly does skepticism mean?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=149251&amp;post=5&amp;subd=skepticism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Die, intelligent design, die</title>
		<link>http://skepticism.wordpress.com/2006/03/12/die-intelligent-design-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2006 04:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cap'n Refsmmat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, most skeptics will agree: intelligent design is a bunch of bollocks. Why? Well, I&#8217;ve managed to spend the time to make a complete ID rebuttal. Hope you like it.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=149251&amp;post=4&amp;subd=skepticism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What really irritates me</title>
		<link>http://skepticism.wordpress.com/2006/03/12/what-really-irritates-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2006 03:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cap'n Refsmmat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know what really irritates me?

When people are belligerently ignorant. You know, they make up their mind on something stupid and refuse to change their opinion. Like a conspiracy theory. I've seen a lot of websites that advocate certain conspiracy theories, like the bit about the US government starting the Sept. 11 attacks intentionally, and I always wonder: why do people even believe in them? The "evidence" is usually a bunch of crap, blurry photographs, or a premise that starts true but ends up so covered in logical fallacies that it ends up "supporting" a ridiculous claim.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=skepticism.wordpress.com&amp;blog=149251&amp;post=3&amp;subd=skepticism&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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