I’d argue there are many ways to do this… over history, various people have compiled various lists of the humanist virtues. One list I like is common sense, creativity, ethics, intuition, memory, and reason, listed in alphabetical order. It is well to keep them in balance and take the input from each one into account.
Steady advice, Matt. Thanks.
Dateline Chicago: matt_mcl and Libertarian agree on something. In other news: sun rises in west, Pope discovered to be Jewish.
Thank you David. That was exactly what i was looking for.
Sweet Lotus said:
Since I don’t know what issues or articles you read, I can’t comment on them specifically, but in general, nobody says that science or logic can explain everything right now. However, they will say that just because we can’t explain something right this second doesn’t make it “unexplained” in some mysterious paranormal way.
As to your earlier question, it’s sort of like Skeptical Inquirer in that it deals with skeptical questions, but it’s not in any official way associated with them. We will announce when they have something new on their website or whatever, just like with anything else of interest to skeptics, but that’s it. If you haven’t already checked it out, I encourage you to do so and judge for yourself what the “attitude” is.
oldscratch said:
Thanks!
Weird. I never thought a group like that would be in such denial.
Nope – my article was based strictly on the South African situation.
I see that matt provided a link for you, though. I’ll assume that was what you were looking for, since you thanked me and I hadn’t even posted. 
tracer: Don’t feel too bad about missing the “Reply” button – I couldn’t find it either a few days ago, and I should have known better! 
I have suggested to the Webmaster that it be made more obvious, though.
Incidentally, I also just posted your news item. Hey, everybody, tracer is famous!
Polycarp: Yes, there is a “board” of sorts. It’s not like this one, but there is the ability to post comments and have discussions. In fact, on Slashdot, the originator of the software, I have heard they get several thousand comments per day! Now, we will never get that many on Skeptic News, but there is that capability.
Furthermore, you can “moderate” other people’s comments by rating them up or down. So if somebody says something really great, you give them a boost so others are more likely to read it. If they say something stupid, you push 'em down so others don’t have to worry about it. (You can’t “moderate” until you build up enough karma points to do so, usually by posting your own comments or submitting news items.)
The Slashdot comment system is very different from the SDMB (for one thin, it’s tree-structure threaded rather than linearly threaded).
Correct. You can view the discussions in threads or just as “flat” discussions, more like it is around here, though. I imagine viewing them “flat” would be fairly confusing on a scale that Slashdot has, though on Skeptic News so far, it wouldn’t be a problem.
A “rational B.S.” detector. Get 'em here! DUH;)
David B wrote:
Oh, darn. Does that mean I just used up my 15 minutes of fame?
iampunha wrote:
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Are you saying there’s no such thing as rational B.S.?
tracer: By my calculation, you used that up at 8:46 this morning. Sorry.
Hey, Poly, why haven’t I seen you post there yet?