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One of the advantages of living in Seattle
Posted by PZ Myers on May 31, 2011 I’m jealous. Jen McCreight is on the Savage Love podcast. She chews him out for a lack of skepticism, too.
Those weren’t aliens! They were communist-Nazi mutants!
Posted by PZ Myers on May 18, 2011 Author Annie Jacobsen has a new book that finally reveals the truly true truth about the so-called UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico. And here is the answer: Roswell Martians May Have Been Deformed Nazi Kids Sent by Stalin. It explains so much. The craft, she writes, wasn’t an alien spaceship, as many have since…
Australians are going to be insufferable
Posted by PZ Myers on May 15, 2011 I can tell it’s going to be even worse than usual. They’re going to have another Global Atheist Convention, which I predict will be even bigger and more successful than the first one, and now I’m getting requests to plug other skeptical events in Melbourne, as if the kangaroos and drop-bears who will attend that…
Planting seeds…
Posted by PZ Myers on May 6, 2011 Hey, Copenhagen, there’s a Skeptics in the Pub starting up in your town. It was inspired by the big Gods and Politics conference there last year, so you know these events do have some effect — they can help get local activists get started.
Don’t let me down, Philadelphians
Posted by PZ Myers on May 1, 2011 You know I’m coming to the big city in less than two weeks, right? I’ll be at the Anti-Superstition Bash on Friday, May 13, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM at the Corinthian Yacht Club, in Essington, PA. You know you want to go, if for nothing else for the snooty thrill of being…
This is low
Posted by PZ Myers on April 27, 2011 Oh, look what’s on the pharmacy shelves! It’s “medicine” for cute little babies! Everyone loves babies, and we want them to gurgle and coo and be happy, so when their widdle tummies make them cranky, we give them a little medicine to make them feel better. Only…Brauer is marketing homeopathic “medicine” to kids — it’s…
Quack, quack, quack
Posted by PZ Myers on April 26, 2011 Steve Novella is going to appear on the Dr Oz show today, and that promo has convinced me that Oz is an unforgivable charlatan. I’m swamped with work — we’re into the final two weeks of classes — so I don’t think I’ll be able to tune in, but any of you who do…report back!…
The heroic Andy Wakefield
Posted by PZ Myers on April 21, 2011 The New York Times has a long profile of Andrew Wakefield. It’s not at all laudatory (read the last paragraph in particular), but it does include quotes from people who regard Wakefield as a hero…and even something more. “To our community, Andrew Wakefield is Nelson Mandela and Jesus Christ rolled up into one,” says J.…
Stop drinking that fake water!
Posted by PZ Myers on April 21, 2011 The world is full of people selling products that are nothing but advertising, like those silly “power balance” bracelets that do not give you either power or balance. Add another one to the list: Real Water. Did you know that going through a pipe strips water of its electrons? That lots of the foods we…
Chiropractic will fix your junk DNA!
Posted by PZ Myers on April 20, 2011 I’m really interested in DNA and genes and genetics, so I was of course attracted to this website that explains a lot of secret information about DNA. Did you know that all the problems in your life are caused by a misaligned DNA code? The author of this site, Tom OM, is a German chiropractor,…