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http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html This is very interesting, in my opinion. It shows how it's inaccurate to think of "The trouble in Africa," among other things.

So, I have mentioned before that there is a radio program with a morning show here in Tucson that doesn't even ever think twice about putting woo on the show. Alison DuBois (the psychic medium or whatever she is) is a regular guest, as well as other people with dubious claims at the very...

I have to say, as a gun owner and military firearms collector, I was confused by Ted Zumbo's comments. Still, the backlash looked as silly as something Michael Moore would have exaggerated. His folly was simply not clarifying what he was referring to: small, semi-auto rifles of intermediate...

Here's a 20 min or so video of Michael Shermer lecturing at TED. Includes at least one pic of The Amazing One. http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=m_shermer

http://www.tedshuttlesworth.com I just watched this guy do some pretty hot reading. I wonder if he is another Peter Popoff. Anyone have any info?

Ted Serios was mentioned briefly in Randi's commentary this week. Strangely there are few skeptical Web pages on the topic of Serios, and there is very little info about Serios being debunked by Randi or anyone else apart from a brief entry in the Skeptics Dictionary. I did some searching and...

Does anyone else read the editorials by Ted Rall? I am a liberal myself but at times he sounds downright loony. Has anyone checked his facts to see if they are right? Interested in hearing other's opinions of the man. Lurker

Wednesday (Dec. 4) I was driving home and caught the infamous Art Bell show. The guest was Jeffery Mishlove a "Doctor of Parapsychology" (Berkley of course). He was being interveiwed about a dead psychic, Ted Owens. It seems Owens claimed credit for ending a California drought among other...