After thinking for a while about starting up a blog about things I think about things other people don't often seem to think about, I've finally bothered to do something about it.
My intent here is nothing more than to offer my own inflated opinion on things that either annoy me or perhaps, from time to time, things that impress me. Maybe others will bother to share their thoughts on anything I mention.
In large part, this blog has come about in response to a chain letter that arrived at home in December last year (2007). The letter was promoting the years-old David Rhodes pyramid scam that promises great riches to anyone who bothers to waste money on continuing the chain. The letter annoyed me to the point where I wrote a lengthy debunking on my other blog, which was not the best place for it to go but was the only space I had at the time (I expect I'll post a copy here, eventually). About that time, I began scouring the internet for information on similar scams and, as a result, I became aware of a rich and widespread skeptical community of bloggers who spend a good deal of time dealing with and debunking scams like this and much more.
So, for the last seven months or so, I've been an avid reader of a collection of blogs and forums from the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF), through to astronomy blogs, medical blogs, biology blogs and a bunch of blogs centered around critical thinking. I'll be linking to more of my favourite blogs when I get around to it.
Each of these sites has increased my desire to participate in this skeptical blogfest, in part because I feel the world needs more exposure to reason and in part because I can't say everything I want to say in other blogger's comments sections. The last straw came when Australian TV station Channel Seven launched it's latest "reality show" The One, (""the search for Australia's most gifted psychic") - a kind of "Psychic Idol" if you will.
The very premise of this show has annoyed me to the point where I could no longer postpone creating a blog where I could vent my spleen. So here I am.
