Our species really intrigues me. At our best, we’re capable of truly remarkable achievements. On the flip side, we commonly display a propensity for dangerous and destructive (or self-destructive) behavior. Humans tend to be creatures driven by emotion and well-suited for survival in our environment rather than objective, critical analysis of the world around […]

Belief can be such a funny thing.

In a recent discussion, some friends and I were highlighting our favorite (read: most humorous) UFO and extraterrestrial claims. Many standards crept into the conversation, from the latter-day mythologies spun around Roswell to the unfortunate numbers sucked in by (wink-wink, nudge-nudge) the magical UFO-summoning ability claimed by “Prophet Yahweh.”
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As reported here by the National Center for Science Education:
In his new article “Turn out the lights, the ‘teach the controversy’ party’s over,” posted on the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal’s Creationism and Intelligent Design Watch website, [Robert] Camp reports on his survey, in which he asked the heads of […]

While reading on the Skeptics Society message board today, I happened across one of the most disgusting things I’ve seen in recent memory.

9/11 Victims Speak Out in New Book
“Above Us Only Sky: A View of 9/11 from the Spirit World,” is the first to channel the accounts of 9/11 from its victims.
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) […]

Oh, goody.

Image credit: NASA
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Indigenous Eskimos believe that there is a hole in the Arctic […]