9 hours ago by Kristjan Wager

Ever since John F. Kennedy was murdered there have been accusations of a conspiracy with Lee Oswald as the fall guy. At first it was just a small fringe group, but since then, these views have gained more foothold in the mainstream. A major reason for this was Oliver Stone's atrocious 1991 movie JFK ...

Pro-science - kriswager.blogspot.com · Rank: 65,060 · 76 references

12 hours ago by keramida

An excellent post appeared today at the Skepchick blog. The post was authored by Sam Ogden, and it is called “ Biting My Tongue For A Good Cause“. Skepticism has certainly been on the rise lately and there are those of us who think that this is good. Requiring actual evidence before we accept, rejec ...

Blog Pseudoaccidentale - keramida.wordpress.com · 13 references

14 hours ago by Zeno

One from the vaults Sometimes I describe myself as an archivist. It's a nice cover story. What I really am is a packrat who could easily turn into one of those eccentrics who lives in a tiny corner of his home because the rest of it is packed solid with junk. (In my case, “junk” would be books and p ...

Halfway There - zenoferox.blogspot.com · Rank: 84,666 · 79 references

19 hours ago by metousiosis

To celebrate one of the greatest minds in science and one of the foremost advocates for the popularization of science, the Center for Inquiry is putting on a festival today in Fort Lauderdale; the live feed for which can be viewed here. Reading Carl Sagan’s book The Demon Haunted World: Science as a ...

Metousiosis - metousiosis.com · Rank: 108,563 · 3 references

1 day ago by SinisterDan

There probably is not a sentence adequately dexterous to both excuse and explain my absence for the last seven months. Was I off in an undisclosed location working on the cure for the Lazy Eye while teams of international terrorists swept down upon me one after the other? (Spoiler alert: that’s the ...

The Reasonable Ego - sinisterdan.wordpress.com · 29 references

1 day ago by Dale Husband

Neal Adams, a comic book artist, has claimed that the Earth and other solid bodies have grown in the past, based on how certain areas can be fit together by “shrinking”. Here are other videos showing other worlds that supposedly “grew”, such as Mars, Ganymede and Europa (moons of Jupiter) and the Ea ...

Dale Husband's ... - circleh.wordpress.com · 6 references

1 day ago by cubiksrube

There are two methods you can use to bend spoons. (They both work just as well on forks, keys, and a variety of other objects, usually small and metallic. Spoons are traditional.) The first one is to be psychic and use your magic psychic powers. Much distorted cutlery has been presented as the resul ...

Cubik's Rube - cubiksrube.wordpress.com · Rank: 117,063 · 39 references

1 day ago by bwanajoe

Carl Sagan was born 75 years ago. Image courtesy of NASA. Joel KontinenNext week, skeptics will celebrate Carl Sagan’s 75th birthday. Sagan, an astronomer and author who died in 1996, did not acknowledge the existence of the supernatural. For him, the cosmos was all that there is. Sagan often pointe ...

Joel kontinen - joelkontinen.blogspot.com · 16 references

1 day ago by Hayley Stevens

There has been some crazy hype over the case of Desiree Jennings who, it is claimed, developed Dystonia – a neurological condition – as a rare reaction to her annual flu vaccination. I researched this story for the Righteous Indignation Podcast where it will be one of my chosen stories on Episode 23 ...

Saturday's child... - saturdayschild.wordpress.com · 4 references

1 day ago by Hayley Stevens

Here is an interesting video from William Brougham (aka. Kensington from Badpsychics) who recently visited the Mind Body Spirit Festival at Darling Harbour in Sydney, Australia. It definetely worth a watch for anybody who has ever, either, considered using complimentry/alternative therapies – or any ...

Saturday's child... - saturdayschild.wordpress.com · 4 references