There's some evidence of inorganic extraterrestrial life.

Now, I'd like to emphasize that there is some evidence- I doubt anyone is going to go running off claiming that we've definitely spotted aliens. But I think it's likely- sort of ( Read more... )

"If you don't publish your findings, you're not doing science, you're doing alchemy and every alchemist had to discover for himself- the hard way- that drinking mercury was a bad idea." - Cory Doctorow (paraphrased from others)

This quote was, in specific, about the TSA and airport security. It is, however, also applicable in countless other

More electro-sensitivity nonsense. In every double-blind study that's ever been done, no effect has been found. But thousands of people self-diagnose (because who's more qualified to make a diagnosis than YOU?) themselves with this "disease".

Is it possible that electro-sensitivity is a real affliction? Well, it's possible. It's also possible that ( Read more... )

I once thought that, no Young Earth Creationist will ever have a paper supporting Creationism printed in any peer reviewed journal ever. There's many reasons for this- mainly the small scraps of evidence they can come up with are either invented or explained better by the far more realistic multi-billion year old Earth model. There is no physical ( Read more... )

I've been flipping through Skeptico, and found this post to be a wonderfully compelling treatment of psychic phenomena.

Flowcharts, for reference. (via)