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snopes.com's David Mikkelson Interviewed
pipingguy writes "Online Journalism Review interviews David Mikkelson of the Urban Legends Reference Pages. While the Internet has taken its share of knocks for helping scammers perpetrate e-mail and Web hoaxes (the Bambi hunt reportedly was staged to sell videos on the proprietor's Web site), not enough credit is given to the folks who are using the Internet to debunk them. Snopes.com is the work of the husband-and-wife team of David and Barbara Mikkelson, who have taken their passion for urban myths to the Web since 1995."
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James Randi crosses the line from healthy skepticism to a "I'm right, even though I have no evidence. Prove me wrong" psuedo-scientist. He takes the vantage point that any thing he thinks is "paranormal" must neccesarily be false, and then looks for evidence to validate his view. Sure, most of these claims are probably false, but that doesn't mean you get to ditch the scientific method.
This is the same reason I don't agree with Atheists. Sure, there's little to no evidence of divinity, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Agnostics are the only ones who can claim that their beliefs are based off the scientific method, since they admit there's not enough evidence to make a conclusion, either way.
One scientist responds to Randi's accusations.
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The Snopes entry about Gore taking credit for creating the Internet gets it wrong.
The guy gets hung up on a false semantic difference between "create" and "invent", and ignores the fact that the Internet existed for several years before Gore got involved with it.