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Rational Alchemy is an hour-long show that covers skepticism, science, technology and critical inquiry with a dash of music and geek news thrown in for good measure. The show, which airs live from 11 p.m. to midnight Saturdays (MST) on community radio KRFC 88.9 fm, is hosted by Brian Walsh with support from Jeff Wagg, Alison Smith and Nigel Aves. The show can be a pot-pori of subjects including news, interviews, discussion on a wide variety of topics including astronomy, science education, exposing hoaxes, modern medicine, sex and Dr. Who.
So settle back and listen to your hosts Brian, Alison, Jeff and Nigel (with occasional appearances by our special friend Jamie) and their always interesting guests.
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Another Jesus On Toast! Pareidolia Of The Week!
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Rational Alchemy : Blogs, Musings and News
Written by Brian Walsh
Tuesday, 31 August 2010 22:56
Here's another Jesus on toast. But click on the image, it links to the original article which is quite amusing.
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Written by Brian Walsh
Monday, 16 August 2010 17:19
This week we build on an article that Jeff wrote, What Everyone Knows, and expanded upon it. We discuss many of the things that we all know to be true that actually aren't. This article was also reprinted by Lifehacker.
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Written by Brian Walsh
Monday, 09 August 2010 21:16
Nigel and I take this week off to allow Jeff to take us on a tour of a Chicago restuarant. Supermarkets are surprisingly full of woo, as homeopathy and "organic" continue to grow in popularity. This is a surprising look at the mountains of bull you can find wherever you look.
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Written by Brian Walsh
Wednesday, 28 July 2010 00:59
This week we were joined, at long last, by Jeff who is finished with his exercise in the desert. We were also joined by Dr. Jennifer Newport of the Chicago Skeptics to discuss science based medicine.
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Written by Brian Walsh
Monday, 19 July 2010 22:27
This week I go on a rant about animal ethics while Nigel tries to keep up. This is a topic that I will revisit soon, I have something big in mind. Jeff was off this week while still doing something odd in a desert.
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Written by Brian Walsh
Saturday, 10 July 2010 17:21
Sorry for the extreme lateness of this podcast. It's been a week.
This week Jeff and Nigel were both off, but I was joined by Bryan Hineser and Ian Brazee-Cannon of the Amateur Skeptics. We discussed our talk at the recent Skepticamp, provided a breakdown of that same event, and discussed the Amateur Skeptics podcast.
Audio and possibly video of the talk we gave should be available soon and will be inserted into the podcast feed.
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Written by Brian Walsh
Wednesday, 23 June 2010 02:35
Tonight we pick Jeff's brain and discuss all things TAM. TAM is The Amazing Meeting, the annual conference of science and skepticism put on by The James Randi Educational Foundation. We were joined this week by Heidi Anderson of the Parenting Beyond Belief podcast to get the opinion of someone who has attended and will be speaking at TAM 8. Nigel and I, barring a benefactor, will not be attending this year, but Jeff has no choice. He works there. Bastard. Ah, well, next year.
More information about TAM, including registration info can be found here:
Special note: Though he didn't actually say anything for the entire episode, Nigel was actually present for this recording. No, I don't know what he was doing either.
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Written by Brian Walsh
Monday, 14 June 2010 22:01
This week we had old friend Stuart Robbins on to discuss the upcoming Skepticamp and the looming threat of the 2012 apocalypse. Apparently some jackass decided that the "end" of the Mayan calendar means that the end of the world will come for the hundredth or so time on December 21, 2012. Stuart handily destroys this myth.
More about Stuart Robbins can be found on his website:
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Written by Brian Walsh
Wednesday, 09 June 2010 22:05
Sorry about the lateness this week....
This week we were joined by Brandon K. Thorpe and Penn Bullock to discuss George Alan Rekers. Rekers is a psychologist and minister who is a founding member of the Family Research Council. He is dedicated to the concept that homosexuality can be cured. Of course he was caught with a hired male prostitute. Brandon and Penn broke the story and joined us to discuss Rekers and gay conversion.
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Written by Brian Walsh
Monday, 24 May 2010 19:03
This week we were joined by Paul A. Toth, a volunteer Public Relations Coordinator for SMART Recovery. SMART Recovers is a secular, science based approach to addiction management. In contrast to Alcoholics Anonymous, SMART Recovery is not faith based, inclusive, and intended not to be a lifelong process. Paul joined us to discuss addiction, how to know when one has a problem and the SMART approach to recovery.
The use of the English libel laws to silence critical discussion of medical practice and scientific evidence discourages debate, denies the public access to the full picture and encourages use of the courts to silence critics. The British Chiropractic Association has sued Simon Singh for libel. The scientific community would have preferred that it had defended its position about chiropractic through an open discussion in the medical literature or mainstream media.
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