“Anybody can talk to the dead, it's hearing back that's the problem.”
Jim Underdown
Jim Underdown
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Skeptical Inquirer Turkey isn't cooked and football isn't on, so I search the web.
"I haunt Pizza Hut" -- The oddest ghostly spots on earth - Asylum UK | For All Mankind -- Men's Life
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Good news horror fans, because Paranormal Activity, supposedly one of the scariest films released this year, comes out today. Set in a typical suburba
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Urlesque - Internet Trends, Viral Videos, Memes and Web Culture
Skeptical Inquirer Peering through the thick dust clouds of our galaxy’s "bulge" (the myriads of stars surrounding its centre), and revealing an amazing amount of detail, a team of astronomers has unveiled an unusual mix of stars in the stellar grouping known as Terzan 5. Never observed anywhere in the bulge before, this peculiar "cockta...il" of stars suggests that Terzan 5 is in fact one of the bulge's primordial building blocks, most likely the relic of a proto-galaxy that merged with the Milky Way during its very early days.
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ESO is the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere. It operates the La Silla Paranal Observatory in Chile and has its headquarters in Garching, near Munich, Germany.
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"A statement of fact cannot be insolent." The miscellaneous ramblings of a surgeon/scientist on medicine, quackery, science, pseudoscience, history, and pseudohistory (and anything else that interests him)
Skeptical Inquirer More ridicule was invited, unwittingly, by Cruise, the church's most high-profile member, in a leaked video produced for the organisation last year that went viral on the internet. It showed a rambling Cruise laughing inexplicably while saying that Scientologists were uniquely equipped with the knowledge necessary to c...ure most of the world's ills, including crime, drugs, mental health problems and violence.
www.guardian.co.uk
Hollywood figures quit 'rip-off' church as Australian prime minister threatens parliamentary inquiry into its activities
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Just frickin wonderful.
The thousands of messages, some dating back more than a decade, shed unflattering light on a number of scientists who harshly questioned the scholarship and motives of other scientists who expressed some doubts about the causes and extent of global climate change.
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Senator James Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, sent letters to many of the scientists whose e-mail messages were made public, asking them to preserve all correspondence.
Skeptical Inquirer Cameron himself went to one campus to hand out the tome, that of UCLA. Some crafty students filmed their exchange with the former child star on a cell phone and put it on YouTube
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Last week actor-turned-creationism spokesman Kirk Cameron went through with his plan to spearhead the handout of a revised edition of "Origin of the Species" on college campuses nationwide.
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The calls come in at all hours: patients reporting broken bones, violent coughs, deep depression.
Skeptical Inquirer Good to Be Skeptical of "Black Friday" advertised bargains
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Here's a Black Friday reality check: Of the hordes of pre-dawn shoppers who line up for hours outside stores on the day after Thanksgiving, most will not bag the best bargains that appear in merchants' circulars.
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For you lucky folks in Vancouver:
Legendary actor William B. Davis , famous for portraying one of the most recognizable villains of all time (the "Cigarette Smoking Man" in The X-Files ), debates the criticism Professor Richard Dawkins had for the show. Did it really undermine rational thought and promote pseudoscience?
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Skeptical Inquirer Cameron the Silly (I know you know the story, but today is the first opportunity I got to watch this CNN video)
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Watch the latest breaking news, politics, entertainment and offbeat videos everyone is talking about at CNN.com. Get informed now!
Skeptical Inquirer New on CSICOP.org - Review of Paranormal Activity
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Seeing what happens in the house while they sleep doesnt make Katie and Micah rest any easier...
Skeptical Inquirer American students rank 21st in science and 25th in math compared with students around the world, he said, putting U.S. at a disadvantage on vital issues such as medicine, energy and security.
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A conversation last week with South Korea's president apparently showed President Obama the stark difference between how Asian nations and the United States value education.
Skeptical Inquirer Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe from Derby University has conducted research into psychic detection for 10 years and says, "there isn't any scientific evidence for psychic detectives being able to provide accurate information."
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"Quite often the victim in the spirit world will come to me and they often lead you to the name or the person involved in their murder."
Skeptical Inquirer AIDS denialism tells us what anyone would want to hear – that HIV does not cause AIDS and that if you live a “healthy lifestyle” (whatever that is) you won’t get AIDS. None of which is true. In fact, there are an estimated 33 million people in the world living with HIV infection. In 2007 there were nearly three million... new HIV infections and two million people died of AIDS.
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Rogues, pseudoscientists, snake oil peddlers – Seth Kalichman reveals the sinister tactics used by those who deny the link between HIV and AIDS
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