New England Skeptical Society
Overview
 
The New England Skeptical Society (NESS) is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to promoting science and reason. It was originally founded in January 1996 as the Connecticut Skeptical Society. The group later joined with the Skeptical Inquirers of New England (SINE) and the New Hampshire Skeptical Resource to form NESS.

The NESS (in association with NYC Skeptics) runs the North East Conference for science and skepticism, NECSS , an annual conference with the most recent one having taken place on April 17, 2010.

The NESS produces a weekly science podcast
Podcast
A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...

 — The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe is a weekly, 80 minute podcast hosted by Steven Novella, MD, and a panel of "skeptical rogues". It is the official podcast of the New England Skeptical Society, and is produced in conjunction with the James Randi Educational Foundation...

 — featuring discussions of myths
Mythology
The term mythology can refer either to the study of myths, or to a body or collection of myths. As examples, comparative mythology is the study of connections between myths from different cultures, whereas Greek mythology is the body of myths from ancient Greece...

, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience
Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience is a claim, belief, or practice which is presented as scientific, but which does not adhere to a valid scientific method, lacks supporting evidence or plausibility, cannot be reliably tested, or otherwise lacks scientific status...

 and the paranormal
Paranormal
Paranormal is a general term that designates experiences that lie outside "the range of normal experience or scientific explanation" or that indicates phenomena understood to be outside of science's current ability to explain or measure...

 from a scientific point of view.
Quotations

This is pure pseudoscience. This is slick marketing. And you can tell your mommy and daddy that I said so. :Podcast 71

We might be outcasts but we're not misinformed. :Podcast 67

What's unique about this is that he's combining 2 balls of crap together to make one huge ball of crap. :Podcast 41

I won't mate with any of the true believers. :Podcast 65

Are you holding a penis? :Podcast 66

Any monkey worth his salt would give any bird a beak-flip. :Podcast 53

All ornithologists are misanthropes. :Podcast 53

And remember, Chi spelled backward is crap. :Podcast 56

Thank god my skepticism has saved me from miracles. :Podcast 57

 
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