The Skeptical Mikester

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

nobody@vox.com(Mikester) — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:34:32 -0700

...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-knell of many a blog. I hope it's not the death-knell of this one.

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"Clairvoyants" interfere with legitimate investigators. Again.

nobody@vox.com(Mikester) — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:38:54 -0700

"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 of you. "We could have sent you his exact location, but we'll wait 'til you beg us for it."

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

nobody@vox.com(Mikester) — Thu, 31 May 2007 20:26:30 -0700

Video link here.

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

nobody@vox.com(Mikester) — Wed, 30 May 2007 23:55:45 -0700

"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 that they're talking about science at some point,' said Mr Krauss.
"Awarding marks out of five, 'I'd give it a four for technology, five for propaganda. As for content, I'd give it a negative five,' he said."

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

nobody@vox.com(Mikester) — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:48:16 -0700

"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 Qiming."
[...]
"Zhang says he has had the cat for more than two years, and she has given birth before but never to a dog."

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

nobody@vox.com(Mikester) — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:23:30 -0800

"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 experimental,' [feng shui expert Simona] Mainini said. 'We don't have any books on feng shui for monkeys. We just have to assume that Darwin is correct and that there is a connection and what is good for humans is good for monkeys.'"

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

nobody@vox.com(Mikester) — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:03:34 -0800

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. To date, she has not.

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28 years?

nobody@vox.com(Mikester) — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:59:11 -0800

Princeton's Department of Imaginary Studies shutting down.

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A little something to add to the bookmarks file.

nobody@vox.com(Mikester) — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:42:25 -0800

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 that void by providing a central place where she, her track record and all of her claims are examined and analyzed.
"Although I will be approaching the subject from a skeptical viewpoint (the name of the site should show that), I will try to do so in as fair and factual a manner as possible.
"Where I state a fact, I will try to back it up with references. Where I state an opinion, I will try to clearly label it as such.
"Is she a well-intentioned spiritual leader, with actual psychic powers? Is she a fraud, making money by callously manipulating and using the bereaved? Or is she something else entirely?
"This site will attempt to answer these questions."

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Another great big step backwards for mankind.

nobody@vox.com(Mikester) — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:38:50 -0800

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 Bible's first book, Genesis, is literally true.

"For them, a museum showing Christian schoolchildren and skeptics alike how the earth, animals, dinosaurs and humans were created in a six-day period about 6,000 years ago -- not over millions of years, as evolutionary science says -- is long overdue."

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