Anti-Science
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An amusing and uplifting story, courtesy of Fark.
Podcast listener Johan sent in a link to a great thread on Fark dealing with a possible UFO. The original poster (named “forked_at_fark”) wrote the headline, “WTF did I just take a picture of? I thought it was a planet, but it looks really weird.” She included this photo: The very first response was, “A streetlight?” “Forked” responded, “No, it…
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Your Daily Creationist WTF
No, not the tech blog, but a story that I couldn’t make up if I tried. Apparently a legislator in Georgia has been accused of sending a memo saying that evolution is actually part of a Jewish conspiracy. There is a lot of denial and ‘he said/she said’ going on (involving at least 2 state representatives), but there clearly was…
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An open letter to Oprah Winfrey.
Dear Oprah, Last year, it was revealed that author James Frey made up his memoir and passed it off as truth. Since he had been a guest on your show previously and it was primarily your influence that caused his book to rocket up the best seller list, you immediately leapt to his defense. Soon, though, you had a chance…
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Healing Touch?
This afternoon, I went to the little gym in the Stata Center at MIT. I went to the bathroom after my hour of bicycling, and I saw an ad for Reiki Healing Classes sponsored by the MIT Athletic Department. I was appalled. I had never heard of Reiki before, but I knew that anything described as a “life force energy”…
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Art influencing reality?
BoingBoing recently linked to a Spanish-language clip of a company selling beauty-enhancing snail snot. It’s incredible enough that this company is selling such a weird product, and more incredible still that there must be a market of people buying it. But what really makes this newsworthy is the fact that Penn & Teller predicted this very pseudoscience way back in …
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Phil kicks ass on the radio!
Back during TAM5, our buddy Phil Plait went on Penn Jillette’s radio show to school Joe Rogan (moon hoaxer), and we finally have the audio. Check out Phil’s story on his blog. Joe, for the record, isn’t such a bad guy. Sure, he has some silly ideas about whether or not man walked on the moon, but he’s pretty damned…
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A Skepchick digs up ghost-hunter dirt
Alison Smith is a cool skepchick over at skepticalanalysis.com. She has it out for TAPS, The Atlantic Paranormal Society, the club behind the show “Ghost Hunters.” Alison noticed that TAPS constantly referred to themselves as a non-profit organization, so she did a little research to figure out if that was true. She began by checking the WHOIS info on the…
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Sylvia on CNN
Awesome! Skepdude Rob Lancaster and Randi appeared on CNN, critiquing Sylvia’s performance. Well done! Watch the video here. Also, Montel Williams is clearly shown for what he is– an apologist for a predatory fraud. Huzzah! In other news: we now have two hamsters, Patsy and Loretta. (Hubby is a country music fan.) Cute Overload!
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