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[Inserted by Laird: Please post here in this thread any comments, suggestions, critiques, etc for the thread, Index of Skeptiko threads & related resources, so as to keep that thread as an index rather than a conversation. I moved this post by Pollux, and my reply, from that thread to here]...

Introduction This thread is an ongoing attempt to fully index all Skeptiko threads and related resources as discussed on Skeptiko. The posts below index all threads in the following Skeptiko forums to approximately the 31st of October, 2019: Skeptiko Shows Consciousness & Science Extended...

Splitting out another thread topic from the fertile Donald Trump thread, with a small addition to what I wrote as quoted below: there are already two registered Australian political parties advocating something like direct democracy, Online Direct Democracy - (Empowering the People!) and...

This thread has been seeded from relevant comments in The Donald Trump thread. Feel free to continue the conversation from those comments or simply state your view, etc. My view? I gel with Vault313's comments below [paraphrased]: if you are vegetarian (I (Laird) go even further, to a variant of...

In another thread, I revealed my view that retributive justice is unsupportable rationally. I can understand it from an emotional perspective: we want to lash out and hurt those who have hurt us; it feels like some kind of "justice" that they experience what they dealt out. But outside of these...

G'day all, This is a proposal for a new forum, provisionally titled "Reasoning about reality", but of course open to your (especially @Alex's) suggestions/alternatives. Why this new forum? Because it seems to me that there are many threads on this board, across its multiple forums, asking, or...

That doesn't sound like a typical comp. sci. crowd... You are "crazy", but only relative to a consensus reality which itself is horribly skewed. Just like vegans are "extremists" only relative to a consensus reality in which it is "normal" and "acceptable" to take an innocent, peaceable...

In another thread, Typoz wrote: Being a little oblivious to thread etiquette, I responded at length in that thread, and at Typoz's polite suggestion, have repeated (with minor edits for context) that response in this new thread so as not to create a diversion in that original thread: First...