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Well, its been 10 years since someone spoofed Art Bell about the Hale Bopp comet companion, and Art got Ed Dames and Courtney Browne to do their fraudulent Remote Viewing of the non existant object. And, in the end, 28 dead. Woo woos who believed anything. And Ed still rips folks off, Art is...

Could we cure cancer in 20 years? Heart Disease? Stroke? How much would it cost to do so? What do you think, what do our best estimates from science and history indicate?

link Awwww, too bad. With luck, maybe he won't live long enough to get out.

Take your favorite organization in the skeptical movement. Consider the level of influence they have, their membership, their overall impact. Where do you think they will be in regards to these things in say 50 years time?

Mayor Nagin caught some flack a couple weeks ago when he answered criticisim about New Orleans slow rebuilding buy pointing out that "hole in the ground" in New York. A little incensitive? Maybe. But is he wrong?? What is taking so long for a memorial and rebuilding. I occasionally see a...

http://www.randi.org/jr/2006-07/072106gentle.html#i5 It seems like only yesterday I was changing it diapers, I had been a fan of The amazing one for years, and when he started his weekly version of swift I was thrilled. So I signed into the forum immediately. I think it took me two years to...

I like to have these polls occasionally in order to take the pulse of our politics forum.

So far 75% of the MSN voters think the punishment was not harsh enough. 20% think it was appropriate. The rest think it was too harsh. I wonder how much of his punishment was reduced by his contribution to the investigations into those 20+ congress members. Sing Abramoff Sing!!! Abramoff Gets...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060220/ap_on_re_eu/austria_holocaust_denial;_ylt=AieUYnUNXLWKnn7kiXM63fus0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b3JuZGZhBHNlYwM3MjE- On the one hand, you reap what you sow...and he's not unlike ID proponents, facts be damned, political agenda full-speed ahead. On the other hand, I...

The Israeli company Fluorinex Active has developed a new technology for fighting tooth decay. The company is currently working on a small device which together with a gel will impose an efficient ion exchange process through an Electro-chemical reaction in which fluor ions displace the Hydroxide...

I resolve to keep in contact with people better than before. You see, I know people who want to talk to me. Thing is, they are either too uncommunicative, lazy, or too knowingly or unknowingly arrogant (eg. if he wants to stay in touch, then he'll have to be the one who shows he needs me...

news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/21/wbuddha21.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/21/ixnewstop.html Oh dearie dearie me.

Yitzhak Rabin was a real patriot. I will never NEVER forget the look on his face when he took the hand of Yasser Arafat that afternoon. He was skeptical. He was in stress and unlike Arafat who was all smiles, he couldn't pretend that he was happy but he gave his hand and that moment we knew that...

And, no, I'm not claiming a teeny tiny bit of "supernatural" in the prediction, either. http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/18/news/economy/price_squeeze/index.htm?cnn=yes Q(jj) A(the two political parties) Q: How do we find the money to pay for the war that 'W' killed lots of poor kids in, and...

This website is pretty funny: http://www.godsaidmansaid.com/home.asp Apparently it's a serious Christian website. They argue that dinosaurs were contemporary to man, that the Earth is only 6,000 years old, and that carbon dating is the work of the devil. It's funny, because they try to use...

...while the remaining (judicial) branch have a term of "for life"???? HMMMMMMMMMM????????

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A man has been sentenced to nine years in jail by a Virginia judge for sending millions of junk emails, or "spamming". Jeremy Jaynes, 30, is the first person in the US to get a prison term in a spam case. He is said to have been the world's eighth most prolific spammer. By selling sham...

WASHINGTON - Even if per capita income in China grows at only 8% per year - lower than the red-hot pace of 9.5% at which it has grown since 1978 - it will still overtake the current per capita US income in just over 25 years, according to the latest analysis by the Earth Policy Institute (EPI)...

Atheists constantly rant about how Genesis is wrong because science has proven the universe is billions of years old. HOW DO YOU KNOW? If you are asking about evidence for the age of the Earth the appropriate section is in "Science....". Please ensure (as per your Membership Agreement) you post...

UNITED NATIONS, New York A new report on women in 150 countries concludes that many women all over the world are worse off today than they were 10 years ago. The report accuses governments of failing to keep their pledge to achieve equality of the sexes. Governments worldwide have adopted a...

Just wondering what your thoughts would be in 50 years if Iraq is a thriving democracy. While there is no evidence to suggest that it will, there's really nothing that says that couldn't happen. So, IF in 50 years, the Iraqi people look back and celebrate the day Saddam fell, and there are...

Just saw this over at Bad Astronomy, and while I cannot find it mentioned elsewhere, I thought it was worth mentioning. (Credit to poster Spaced Out at the BABB) I remember hearing someone say it at work at not believing it--after all, wasn't the American Space program the best, with a string...

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Last year, I asked the skepchicks to give a kiss to Mercutio fo me knowing that Mercutio would kiss everybody anyway and I just tried to prevent my heart from breaking. In Greece though, we have a proverb "Always give less credit to a man than the one he deserves". This is a wise proverb. Most...

I posted this on a woo woo board, and I thought I'd bring it over here and share it with you good people... just for poops and giggles: I lived in a haunted house for two years. At least, they told me it was haunted. The history of the house was about as good as you're going to see for...

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Palestinians Vote in Litmus Test Local Poll Wow, no elections in three decades, everything run by one man who stole billions in international aid and financed terror combined with Islamists sworn to destroying Israel. And people still wonder why the Palestinians are where they are today. My...

Any guesses? I was suprised. (and according to my source, it is not an exact science, but I'm comfortable with their analysis) Take a stab at ranking them (there have been 9).

...or on the past four? http://www.airliners.net/open.file/727154/L/ http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/04/plane.crash.ap/