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Vampire Forensics presents the lore and myth of vampires with an eye for science, particularly anthropology, psychology, physiology and, more to my liking, archaeology.
I have always enjoyed stories and movies about vampires. At age four, I was hooked on Dark Shadows, a bad soap opera that featured gothic ghouls like vampires, werewolves, and ghosts. But [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-05
Cleaned out my blog roll and updated some links at Hot Cup of Joe; I really do need to figure out my "Articles" page #
Evolution vs Intelligent Design: I couldn't resist responding to a comment on an old post http://goo.gl/mVZ2 #
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The Dating of Iron Nails
A recent story making it’s rounds among those who fancy an interest in archaeology, history and “biblical” versions of both carries the headline “Archaeologists find crucifixion-style nail from the time of Jesus.”
My first thought was this would be cool. There are so few nails found that can be attributed to actual crucifixions, so this could [...]
Robert J. Braidwood: More Than Just One Man
One cannot study prehistoric archaeology without encountering the name Robert J. Braidwood. An innovator of archaeological method and inquiry, Braidwood pioneered new ways of investigating the prehistoric past. He found an interest in that unique period of human history that marks a transition from hunting and gathering into food production through agriculture (Redman 1978; Harms [...]
If it quacks like a Quack…
The quack, Christopher Maloney, has left two comments on my blog. The first was a copy/paste of an open letter to PZ Myers… I’m not sure why he posted it on my blog. The second was this:
Wow, you are quick to condemn and slow to apologize. Haven’t you looked at PZ’s revisionist “oops, I burned [...]
Christopher Maloney is a Quack
In the state of Main, where “naturopaths” can call themselves “doctor,” a nut exists that makes the following pseudoscientific claims:
Parents waiting for vaccinations can provide their children with black elderberry, which blocks the H1N1 virus. A single garlic capsule daily cuts in half the incidence and the severity of a flu episode for children.
Claims that [...]
Shroud of Turin? Probably Not a Death Shroud of Jesus
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The death shroud held by the Vatican and occasionally displayed, commonly known as “The Shroud of Turin,” has long since been demonstrated to be a fraud from antiquity. The provenience is unknown; the cloth dates to the 14th century; the pigments in the “image” are ocher and vermillian (i.e. paint); the facial image is unrealistic [...]
Mike Adams Pretends to know the Minds of Skeptics
In a recent article on the inter-webs, Mike Adams, self-proclaimed “health ranger” and an editor at NaturalNews.com, pretends to know something about skeptics.
Wow.
In a word: fail.
In his opening paragraphs he says,
skeptics” claim to be the sole protectors of intellectual truth. Everyone who disagrees with them is just a quack, they insist. Briefly stated, “skeptics” are [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-15
wants to read Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe by Erik J. Wielenberg – http://bit.ly/7Xcynu #
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Social Security for illegal immigrants?
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There is an email going around in that urban legend fashion so popular with non-thinking and irrational conservatives who regularly drink the Rush Limbaugh / Fox News Kool-Aid that claims to be driving a petition to appeal to Obama (”regardless of whether you like him or not”) to veto a bill to give [...]
