Category Archives: Skepticism and Pseudoscience

Grave Dowsing?

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Carl Feagans

What’s a water dowser do when his method is demonstrated time and again to be nonsense on stilts? Turn to dowsing for graves, I suppose. It wasn’t mentioned if the dowser who worked for Mississippi landowner about to lose a … Continue reading →

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Newt Gingrich: Americans are an Invented People

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Carl Feagans

So, if Palestinians are an “invented people,” then equally, too, are the Americans and the Israeli’s. Neither the United States or Israel existed prior to 1776 and 1948 respectively. Continue reading →

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The Pseudoscience of Homeopathy

Posted on July 12, 2010 by Carl Feagans

I am not responsible for any keyboards for those who tried reading this with their morning hot cup of joe! If you’ve never visited xkcd, you should!

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CVS Pharmacy Sells Water at $13,000.00 per Gallon

Posted on May 27, 2010 by Carl Feagans

And so does Walmart and several other mainstream retailers. Allergy season has hit my family pretty hard this year, my daughter the most. The congestion and post-nasal drip she’s experienced has caused a terrible sounding cough and now she’s experiencing … Continue reading →

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Robert J. Braidwood: More Than Just One Man

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Carl Feagans

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 … Continue reading →

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If it quacks like a Quack…

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Carl Feagans

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 … Continue reading →

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Christopher Maloney is a Quack

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Carl Feagans

… is the charge by several other bloggers. In the state of Main, where “naturopaths” can legally call themselves “doctor,” Maloney makes the following pseudoscientific claims: Parents waiting for vaccinations can provide their children with black elderberry, which blocks the … Continue reading →

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Mike Adams Pretends to know the Minds of Skeptics

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Carl Feagans

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 … Continue reading →

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Social Security for illegal immigrants?

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Carl Feagans

Image via Wikipedia 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 … Continue reading →

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FTC Cracking Down on “Complementary Alternative Medicine” Blogs?

Posted on October 6, 2009 by Carl Feagans

If so, this is good news for consumers. Frauds like Kevin Trudeau have been peddling their snake oil to anyone willing to shell out the bucks, often under the ironic guise of being “consumer watchdogs,” protecting consumers from “the establishment” … Continue reading →

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