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This Week's Panel:
Eve Siebert -- Editor and blogger at Skeptical Humanities
Bob Blaskiewicz -- Committee for Skeptical Inquiry's Conspiracy Guy web columnist, JREF Swift Blog contributor, and blogger for Skeptical Humanities
Sharon Hill -- Editor of Doubtful News and author of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry's Sounds Sciencey web column
Tim Farley -- JREF Fellow, creator of whatstheharm.net and skeptools.com
Brian Gregory - Host
Bob's Links
The Original WIN Broadcast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbBd9vGmIY4
Media Watch story:
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s3601416.htm
WIN Network response to a complaint: http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/1235_win.pdf
Eve's Links
Ke$ha and Casper Hovering in a Tree:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/27/kesha-sex-with-ghost_n_1919320.html
"Experts" doubt Ke$ha's story:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/29/keshas-ghost-sex-claim-_n_1924336.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news
Vatican's response to "Jesus's wife" papyrus:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/world/europe/vatican-says-papyrus-referring-to-jesus-wife-is-probably-fake.html?_r=0
Smithsonian Channel postpones documentary on Gospel of Jesus's Wife:
http://news.yahoo.com/doc-papyrus-fragment-purporting-jesus-had-wife-delayed-214312152.html
Sharon's Links
Paranormal Paramours
http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/paranormal_paramours
Healing your house: Call the energy-clearing practitioner (UPDATED: JREF open letter)
http://doubtfulnews.com/2012/09/healing-your-house-call-the-energy-clearing-practitioner/
California bill toughens up vaccine waivers
http://doubtfulnews.com/2012/10/california-bill-toughens-up-vaccine-waivers/
AB 2109, Pan. Communicable disease: immunization exemption.
http://www.aroundthecapitol.com/billtrack/text.html?bvid=20110AB210994CHP
Governor Jerry Brown signs California Bill AB 2109, but tries to water it down in a sop to religion
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/10/01/governor-jerry-brown-signs-california-bill-ab-2109-but-tries-to-water-it-down-in-a-sop-to-religion/
Rob,the anti-vaxxanator, making nonsense comments
http://doubtfulnews.com/2012/07/rob-the-anti-vaxxanator-making-nonsense-comments/
California bans (?) 'gay cure' therapy for children
http://doubtfulnews.com/2012/09/california-bans-gay-cure-therapy-for-children/
Psychiatrist who championed 'gay cure' admits he was wrong
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/19/psychiatrist-admits-gay-cure-study-flawed
The Convoluted Legal Case For Reparative Therapy
http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/2012/10/30091/
SB-1172 Sexual orientation change efforts. http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1172
Tim's Links
Skeptic webmasters should be familar with Google's updated webmaster guidelines
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/10/google-webmaster-guidelines-updated.html
Balancer is a browser plug-in that tries to break you out of your bubble on political articles
http://www.washington.edu/news/2012/09/27/browser-plugin-helps-people-balance-their-political-news-reading-habits/
Pundit Tracker launched last week, it rates sports, finance and political pundits on accuracy
http://pundittracker.com/
Brian's Links
Calif. Greenlights Self-Driving Cars, But Legal Kinks Linger
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/10/03/162187419/calif-green-lights-self-driving-cars-but-legal-kinks-linger
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