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  1. Kay

    "Reflective thinking" vs the rest. Just for fun

    Nothing, usually. Technically someone could be a gnostic atheist and be 100% convinced there are not and never have been any deities, but most self-described atheists think gods are possible, but there's just no evidence supporting belief in them.
  2. Kay

    "Reflective thinking" vs the rest. Just for fun

    :) http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.html ----- 4.1 Analytic thinking Dual-process theories of reasoning and decision making distinguish between intuitive (“Type 1”) processes that are autonomously cued and reflective (“Type 2”) processes that are effortful, typically deliberative...
  3. Kay

    Dogs Have ESP When They Poop and Pee

    I also had a dog who was a "seizure dog" (I'm epileptic.) He would paw at me a few minutes before I'd have a seizure. I'd be like "Do you need to go out? Do you need food, water?" and go check those things, but he was insistent that it was something else wrong. Every. Time. I'd have a seizure...
  4. Kay

    Dogs Have ESP When They Poop and Pee

    I really think dogs might have some senses we don't have. Just tonight (a couple of hours ago), my puppy, who is not skittish at all in general but is scared of thunderstorms, jumped into my lap shivering with fear. There was no storm at that time, but 5 minutes later the wind started blowing...
  5. Kay

    Dogs Have ESP When They Poop and Pee

    Well, "magnetism extra sensory something", apparently: (H/T, Ig Nobel awards) Full text! http://www.frontiersinzoology.com/content/10/1/80 If this is replicated, it will honestly be extremely cool. Check out the pic from the full text...
  6. Kay

    Sean Carroll on the Higgs

    Same hold true for Bigfoot?
  7. Kay

    Sean Carroll on the Higgs

    From what I understand, a vast majority of physicists consider the multiverse theory strictly hypothetical and somewhat unlikely.
  8. Kay

    Sean Carroll on the Higgs

    ANYTHING can be made to fit something as mysterious and counterintuitive as quantum mechanics. The flying spaghetti monster's Noodly Appendages being the mechanism behind gravity fits just as well.
  9. Kay

    Sean Carroll on the Higgs

    In science, you devise and perform an experiment that can falsify the hypothesis. That's how you at least start to prove it. I do think ghosts "could" exist, by the way. I just don't see convincing evidence that they do, any more than evidence of bigfoot (who some believers claim are...
  10. Kay

    Sean Carroll on the Higgs

    I don't think a failure to attribute an observed effect to the correct cause is a matter of people being stupid or insane, etc. If so, basically everyone is stupid and/or insane. Susceptibility to things like confirmation bias are just universal human traits that everyone is self-deceived by...
  11. Kay

    Sean Carroll on the Higgs

    The difference involves falsifiability (use of the scientific method.)
  12. Kay

    Sean Carroll on the Higgs

    "Grey aliens of the gaps" has a nice ring to it. eta: "Sasquatch of the gaps", too.
  13. Kay

    Chatbot 'Eugene Goostman' passes the Turing test

    I think this could also be rephrased "One third of people find smartass 13 year olds indistinguishable from asshole chatbots."
  14. Kay

    What Studies for Skeptiko Guests?

    What a wonderful idea, Malf! I look forward to seeing the suggestions made by other forum members.
  15. Kay

    Skeptics asked not to post

    I'm not seeing how compatibilism isn't kind of a wimpy way of saying that free will is an illusion. What am I missing?
  16. Kay

    Skeptics asked not to post

    The thing is, they have been demonstrated to work better than placebo. It's just that exactly how hasn't been proven.
  17. Kay

    Skeptics asked not to post

    Stephen, lots and lots of pharmaceuticals have a technically unknown "mechanism of action". Whatever the mechanism is, it's generally assumed to be non-magical, but hey, you never know.
  18. Kay

    Why We Need Skeptics in the Skeptiko Forum

    So, you start a thread specifically to bait skeptics, in the only sub-forum you let the skeptics post in, and then ban them for posting in the thread. Merry Christmas to you, too. :)
  19. Kay

    Do materialist lay-people have anything interesting to offer?

    I know enough about Dawkins to know I think he's an anti-theist bigot, based on quotes people have shown me. I've seen him in a couple of debates and wasn't impressed, as well. That's about it.
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