As we said earlier, it will be our privilege to host the next Skeptics' Circle here at the Two Percent Company on March 17. Please send your skeptical writing to us at [skepticscircle AT twopercentco DOT com], or fill in the form on our contact page, for consideration. We will be accepting submissions until Wednesday, March 16 at 11PM EST. Click on the button below to visit the home page of the Skeptics' Circle for more information on submission guidelines. If you aren't sure if a post you have will work, send it over and we'll take a look.

The first four issues have been exceptional — send us your skeptical posts so we can keep the trend going.

In case you haven't been keeping up, you can still read the first, second, and third Skeptics' Circles before next Thursday!

Re: Skeptics' circle

I recently started my Skeptico blog and have just heard about your Skeptics' Circle. Great idea. I have included three articles below for consideration – obviously choose just one, depending on what you think is most appropriate.

The first two are from February, so maybe they're disallowed anyway.

The first one — Five Apples — is a kind of parable of what it is like to be a skeptic when everybody else believes in some sort of Newage nonsense. It's probably my fault for living in California.
http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2005/02/five_apples.html

The second one — Bottled Sea Water — I wrote after discovering that a lot of my friends were taking this magic supplement that they all claimed to get "high" on. Still makes me laugh even now.
http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2005/02/bottled_sea_wat.html

The third one — The Astrology Challenge — is more serious (and long). I challenge astrology proponents to explain how the ancients worked out all those detailed rules that astrologers use. I'm planning to email the link to several leading astrologers so see if they will respond.
http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2005/03/the_astrology_c.html

Hope one of these is good for the circle. Let me know what you think.

Regards
Richard Rockley
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