Month: November 2010
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UFOs and Aliens
Things to do Try faking a UFO photograph and show it to friends to see their reaction. Spend an evening near an airport and watch the lights in the sky to see how hard it can be to judge size and distance. How is the evidence for UFOs or alien abductions any better than the…
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Psychics and the Police
Sensing Murder might be the most important TV show of our times. It all boils down to this: the show is either a colossal fraud, an entertainment conspiracy the size of Watergate, or it’s the most amazing and incontrovertible evidence of paranormal activity ever recorded. And it has to be one or the other. It…
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Psychics
If there was something to psychics tapping into some form of spiritual after-life, or even a mass consciousness that extruded back from the future, then anyone with a pinch of psychic power should have warned Diana, Princess of Wales, not to get into that Mercedes. After all, that death had HUGE emotional ramifications that should…
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Homeopathy
If homeopathy works, then obviously the less you use it, the stronger it gets. So the best way to apply homeopathy is to not use it at all. Phil Plait Water has memory! And while its memory of a long lost drop of onion juice is Infinite It somehow forgets all the poo it’s had…
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Critical Thinking
I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. Richard Feynman Just because Einstein was controversial does not mean that anyone who is controversial must be another Einstein. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Keep asking questions until you know, or you know that you don’t know!…
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Astrology
Things to do Read out the horoscope for the wrong sign and see if your listener agrees with it. If you do get a personal astrological interpretation, tape it and listen to see how much information you provided yourself and how specific the astrologer was. Keep the New Year predictions made by astrologers, psychics and…