The Skeptical Mikester

I haven't forgotten about this website, honest...

2008-03-20T05:34:32Z

...but I'm too busy posting at Progressive Ruin, and that site takes precedence over this one. But I'll hopefully be able to work out a way to post here more often as well. Yes, it's the dreaded "I'm sorry I haven't posted much" post, the death-...

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"Clairvoyants" interfere with legitimate investigators. Again.

2007-09-11T04:38:54Z

"Remote viewers" make up information and send it to the folks looking for missing adventurer Steve Fossett. Get this, from the accompanying statement: "We'll provide them with a more precise area, if they request/require it." Well, that's big o...

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Big fish captured on tape, misidentified as "Nessie."

2007-06-01T03:26:30Z

Video link here.

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$27,000,000 tribute to bad science and ignorance opens in Kentucky.

2007-05-31T06:55:45Z

"World's first creationist museum opens in Kentucky" "Lawrence Krauss, an author and physicist at Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, decided to view the museum first-hand. "'It's really impressive, and it really gives the impression th...

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"She has given birth before but never to a dog." ...You don't say?

2007-04-28T05:48:16Z

"Cat 'gives birth to puppy'" "The cat, in Zhengzhou city, gave birth to four kittens, one of which looks like a white poodle. "'It looks very different from the other kittens, and its mouth, nose and paws are all dog-like,' says owner Zhang Qimi...

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You know, even the monkeys are saying "what's this crap?"

2007-02-14T03:23:30Z

"Zoo pays feng shui expert to aid monkeys" "The Los Angeles Zoo paid $4,500 to an expert in the ancient Chinese art of feng shui to ensure three endangered golden monkeys on loan from China can have a strong life force." "'It's very experimenta...

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And he was being awfully generous with some of those "hits."

2007-02-12T20:03:34Z

Sylvia Browne's predictions for 2006, checked for accuracy. >Jennifer Lopez should be careful with her health. She will also become pregnant. Miss. J-Lo is in great health, though it was rumored in late 2005 that she might want to have a baby. T...

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28 years?

2007-02-12T19:59:11Z

Princeton's Department of Imaginary Studies shutting down.

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A little something to add to the bookmarks file.

2007-01-15T02:42:25Z

Stop Sylvia Browne website. "Over the years, Sylvia Browne has been the focus of a number of skeptical pages on the web, but I don't think that there has ever before been one site which focused solely on her. The goal of this site is to fill tha...

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Another great big step backwards for mankind.

2007-01-15T02:38:50Z

People whose weak faith is easily shaken by knowledge about to open museum: "The $27 million project, which also includes a planetarium, a special-effects theater, nature trails and a small lake, is privately funded by people who believe the Bib...

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