A good read. The website - www.skeptic.com is certainly mows down all those half-truths you pick up, as is www.urbanlegends.com - that is if you believe in any of that stuff [grin].
What's the story with the 'c' and 'k' in sceptic. I have always written it with a 'c', I guess because the 'k' would have made me think I was writing in German (schaut skeptisch:-|).
'K ' is of course, as the artikle(!) states from Greek and the 'c' form from Latin. It is quite rare that we find this Greek form though, [question tag]? I can only think of 'sk' in a few words - none of Greek origin either, I think.