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- Richard Dawkins: "The Greatest Show on Earth" tour continues 14 October 09:29|8 comments
- News from Innaiah N at Hyderabad, India (Center for Inquiry India) 05 October 07:46|2 comments
- From Skeptic Extraordinaire, Ray Hyman 25 September 15:33|2 comments
Skeptical Inquirer Shroud researcher Gian Marco Rinaldi, speaking of the images on which Frale’s findings were based, stated: “These computer enhancements increase contrast in an unrealistic way to bring out these signs. You can find them all over the shroud, not just near the head, and then with a bit of imagination, you see letters.”
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Skeptical Inquirer On November 18, with the United Nations Global Warming Conference in Copenhagen fast approaching, U.S. Senator James R. Inhofe (R-Okla.) took the floor of the Senate and proclaimed 2009 to be "The Year of the Skeptic." Had the senator's speech marked a new commitment to dispassionate, rational inquiry, a respect for sc...ientific thought and a well-grounded doubt in ghosts, astrology, creationism and homeopathy, it might have been cause for cheer.
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Evidence for human interference with Earth's climate continues to accumulate
See MoreSkeptical Inquirer There were comedy highlights, as you might expect from any serious inquiry into an industry where sugar pills have healing powers conferred upon them by being shaken with one drop of the ingredient which has been diluted so extremely that it equates to one molecule of the substance in a sphere of water whose diameter is roughly the distance from the Earth to the sun.
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Ben Goldacre: Dr Peter Fisher from the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital (funded by the NHS) says homeopathic pills have physical side-effects. Can a sugar pill have a side-effect?
Skeptical Inquirer Hey Denver - What the heck is up with you?
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Denver residents will have a chance to decide if the city will study visitors from space. An initiative on next year's ballot will ask voters if the city should create a seven-member commission to study UFOs.
Skeptical Inquirer If the NHS commitment to evidence-based medicine is more than a lip service, then money has to be spent on treatments that are evidence-based, and homeopathy isn't," said Edzard Ernst, a professor of complementary medicine at the Peninsula medical school in Exeter.
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Medical professionals at Commons cross-party science inquiry brand the treatments a dubious use of public money
Skeptical Inquirer By any standard, Ishamuddin Khan is a man of remarkable talents. Back in 1995, this traditional Indian magician or madari, completed the first successful outdoor performance of a trick that had been whispered about for centuries but that no one before had mastered.
www.independent.co.uk
By any standard, Ishamuddin Khan is a man of remarkable talents. Back in 1995, this traditional Indian magician or madari, completed the first successful outdoor performance of a trick that had been whispered about for centuries but that no one before had mastered. ...
Skeptical Inquirer I just wanted to send out a THANK YOU to all of you. Over the last few days the Fanpage membership has grown by a couple of hundred people. Some of you must be asking your friends to join the fanpage. And they are! Thanks again and keep it up!
Skeptical Inquirer Skeptical Inquirer covered Facilitated Communication in the Spring 1993 issue (articles not online)
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With a caretaker holding his hand, a Belgian man who was diagnosed as comatose for 23 years typed out a message Tuesday that he felt reborn. I, for one, don't buy it.
Skeptical Inquirer East Africa's latest albino murder happened in Tanzania's Mwanza region in late October, when albino hunters beheaded 10-year-old Gasper Elikana and chopped off his leg, the report said. The killing left Elikana's father, who tried to defend his son, seriously injured.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — The mistaken belief that albino body parts have magical powers has driven thousands of Africa's albinos into hiding, fearful of losing their lives and limbs to unscrupulous dealers who can make up to $75,000 selling a complete dismembered set. ...
Skeptical Inquirer “Saudi courts are sanctioning a literal witch hunt by the religious police,” Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, said in a news release. “The crime of ‘witchcraft’ is being used against all sorts of behavior, with the cruel threat of state-sanctioned executions.”
SAUDI ARABIA: Kingdom steps up hunt for 'witches' and 'black magicians' | Babylon & Beyond | Los Ang
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When the popular 46-year-old Lebanese psychic Ali Sibat went on-air and made his predictions about the future, the phone lines of the satellite television station Sheherazade used to be flooded with calls. But what the star psychic probably did not...
Skeptical Inquirer Failure of the vaccine campaign across Europe would entail wider spread of the pandemic, an increased possibility of adverse complications and increased possibility of the virus mutating into a more aggressive and/or drug-resistant form," the society's past president, Giuseppe Cornaglia, said.
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PARIS — A leading association of clinicians on Monday accused an "anti-vaccination movement" of breeding suspicion about the (A)H1N1 swine flu vaccine in Europe and declared public health and lives were at risk.
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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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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