About the skepbitch
Skepbitch…Cunning Linguist…Pyewhackett…Naked Skeptic, whatever name you know me by, I’m Dr Karen Stollznow, Academic, Author and Associate Editor of the Skeptic magazine, and webmistress of Bad Language.
I am an insatiable writer for the Skeptic, the Skeptical Inquirer, and Australasian Science (as a Naked Skeptic columnist). I write books, scripts, boring academic tomes, and am the US Correspondent for The TANK Vodcast.
I’ve spent many years investigating the paranormal and pseudoscientific, including: ghosts, aura reading, psychics, medical intuitives, alternative therapies, mediums, faith healing, conspiracy theories, cults, pareidolia (seeing faces on places other than heads), religion, haunted houses and much more. My specialty is language-based phenomena, such as glossolalia (speaking in tongues), automatic writing, graphology, alien and monster languages and writing systems, EVPs, weird theories and bad thinking about language. I research a topic, test the theories and report my experiences. In doing so, the subject usually provides enough rope to hang themselves. Use their own ammunition against them, I say.
This blog is an illegitimate sister site to the more weighty, article-based Bad Language, and aims to provide scathing skeptical commentary of everyday people, places and events.
What do others have to say about the Skepbitch?
”It’s great. You’re one of the few likeable bitches out there.”
Access.
“A beautiful, gifted literary slut. I just made you up in my head, didn’t I?” Warren Ellis.
“It’s the funniest and most exhilarating read I’ve had since The God Delusion.”
Mark Dallas.
“Your blog isn’t just sassy and smart. Its good, its moral, and above all it’s needed. I hope you never stop witting. You blog speaks to my soul. When I read your writing it gives me hope. Oddly (for an atheist) you remind me of a prophet. You call people to a better way (skeptical, rational thought) and warn them of their impending doom (if they insist on being stupid). You are a treasure.”
Israel Walker.
Feel free to email me if you would like to share any ideas, stories, gripes or opinions. I won’t bite, but I will bitch…
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what can you tell me about todd bentley ?
I assume you’re referring to Todd Bentley of Fresh Fire Ministries? http://www.freshfire.ca
He’s a garden variety televangelist, full of hell-fire and brimstone and shit.
What separates him from Benny Hinn, Peter Popoff, Bob Larson, Creflo A Dollar and a host of other ‘ministers’? Well…he’s decidedly more unattractive, that’s about it…
As with him, and the rest of them, the cancerous, wheelchair bound, or blind leave Bentley’s services, still cancerous, wheelchair bound and blind.
Unconscionable, but fiscally rewarding work.
Hi,
I’m really interesting to hear your findings about Glossolalia. I’m not sure what I believe about it yet, but I’d love to hear more about your studies on the subject.
Sincerely,
Kat
Hello - “I don’t have an accent” reminds me of Lenny Bruce’s comment (re-engineered here as best an aging memory can manage): “LBJ could probably cut Schopenhauer, mindwise, but when he says, ‘Mah friends, Ah thank …’ the Eastern (Seaboard) intellectual says, ‘Shaddup, schmuck - you don’t think nothing!’”
Tom Allston, Amarillo, Texas
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