"skeptoid?" bah!"

[RSLancastr]

I am just learning that the word "skeptoid" is an epithet used by some believers, much as some skeptics call believers "creduloids."

Prior to learning this, I was only familiar with the word as being the name of your podcast.

A believer blog recently referred to me as an "uber skeptoid," which I believe means that I outrank you.

I'm just sayin'.

Hope to see you at TAM!

Robert

[Safe-Keeper]

Yeah, Brian Dunning walked me (or rather, everyone who reads the article:D) through this on his site (here (http://skeptoid.com/about.php)). He tried to discuss paranormal stuff a forum and got insults like "debunkatron" and "skeptoid" thrown back at him by people who didn't like their beliefs questioned. Before that, I didn't give the name any thought and just thought Skeptoid was something Dunning had come up with himself.

Pity we're not in the 80's, "Sceptron" sounds better in my ears.

[Lisa Simpson]

I want to be a Skeptiborg.

[Safe-Keeper]

To Scepticburg, to Scepticburg!

[Lisa Simpson]

Which is coolest?

Skeptizombies

Skeptininjas

or

Skeptipirates?

[Lucian]

Which is coolest?

Skeptizombies

Skeptininjas

or

Skeptipirates?

Skeptivikings.

[Lisa Simpson]

Ooh...you win.

[Naddig74]

I say own it RS. I suggest you go for Uber-Skeptoid as your custom title.

[RSLancastr]

I'm thinking of getting a T-Shirt emblazoned with it.

[Wolrab]

Tattoo it, dude!

[briandunning]

I bet someone is now going to do "Uber-Skeptoid" as a podcast.
:-)

[Alan]

Which is coolest?

Skeptizombies

Skeptininjas

or

Skeptipirates?

Skeptininja.

I am sure the peer-reviewed literature will support this.

[Tomtomkent]

I think Debunkatron was a G1 Transformer.....

[WanderingSkeptic]

Now that we are discussing Skeptininja, Skeptipirates and Uber-Skeptoid ... should we consider all this to be meta-skeptiod analysis :)

[RSLancastr]

Not until someone writes their doctoral thesis on it.

[GrandMasterFox]

So does that make Randi Skeptizilla?

[RSLancastr]

Or maybe Mecha Skeptizilla!

[GrandMasterFox]

Or maybe Mecha Skeptizilla!

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH That would be so cool.
Meet the new Mighty Morphing Power Skeptic Rangers!
It's Skepting Time!

[pipelineaudio]

debunkatron is pretty awesome

Brian, I have returned home to Hawaii and am having great difficulty walking from island to island across the great pacific garbage patch

[Tomtomkent]

Great? I mean as garbage patches go it was okay, but great? Pfft.

[RSLancastr]

Weren't there Garbage Patch Kids dolls in the 1980s?

[Alan]

Cabbage patch. :)

[RSLancastr]

Cabbage patch. :)Yes, but tbagehere were also a satire of them called Garbage Pail Kids, or something similar. Cabbage Patch + Garbage Pail = Garbage Patch. Or so I say.

[pipelineaudio]

Garbage pail kids cards! I remember church groups protesting them outside of drugstores

There was even a really horrid movie with them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lXmuXVGidY

[RSLancastr]

Thanks, Pipeline! I was beginning to think I was misremembering!