Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
Thanks to Bruce M. Hood, author of ‘Supersense’, there’s been some regular blog posts on this most ridiculous (and absolutely, unquestionably horrifically dangerous in what they claim and then fail to do) contraptions. First, it was awareness-raising through his post ‘Dowsing for Death’, which introduced the ADE-651, a product which ‘claims to detect concealed explosives, [...]
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Just a quick late-night/very-early-morning-whip around for all of you keeping track of the ongoing Dore saga: Holford Watch, whose original complaint was upheld – ASA: Dore advert is “misleading” and breaches rules on “truthfullness” and “substantiation”. Brainduck‘s blog is a MUST READ – it is astounding how much grace-under-pressure this blogger produces while keeping up with [...]
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Many, many thanks to Richard Saunders of the Skeptic Zone podcast and the Young Australian Skeptics for the following! Get a pdf here and print it out, pass it on and suggest for podcasts and other blog sites. “With the growing world-wide threat of Swine Flu (or the N5H1 virus) the public is alerted to [...]
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From The Inquisitr: The FBI raided New York based bridge lender Agape World Monday over an alleged $380 million ponzi scheme. Agape chief Nicholas Cosmo is accused of scamming $380 million out of thousands of Agape World clients with promises of high returns that couldn’t be met. Investors starting showing up at Agape World’s office [...]
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From ‘Dispatches From The Culture War‘: After trying to change their sullied public image by changing their name to Quixtar, Amway is now reversing course, retiring the new name and trying to resurrect the old Amway name and rebuild the business here… If you want to learn all about the Amway fraud, go to Eric [...]
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Yeah, ‘created by a school teacher’. Bye-bye Airborne; thankfully you never made it to our shores! You can see Dr Pamela Gay (who will be featured in an interview tomorrow for the Skeptic Zone podcast! Today we discovered we’ve hit ratings for number one podcast for Science and Medicine in Australia!!) talk about it in [...]
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From I09: Obviously, the fake-psychic-turned-investigator from The Mentalist chucked a pretty lucrative job when he went straight. Today a San Francisco “psychic” named Lisa Marie Miller (pictured) was sentenced to two months in jail for sucking over $100 thousand out of a lovelorn woman. Miller convinced the woman she had a “curse” that could only [...]
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