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Because apparently we have yet another end of the world date to look forward to and laugh about come early next year

http://www.conspiracyanddemocracy.org/about/ So it's a study of the mechanisms of conspiracy theories, not a study of individual theories themselves, such as the Zeitgeist and 9/11 denial crap which has been addressed and debunked on these forums many times over. It looks interesting and i...

And i pick this article because to me it has all the denialist nonsense in one go. As Prole would say, "Feel free to use it as target practice" :)

Sometimes, the weird discussions that i can get involved in amaze even myself. Like i did with my latest blogpost i also made a mention of the 1913 Treaty of London on Twitter and the expansion of the Serbian state as a result of it, incorporating Kosovo (which is mostly ethnic Albanian) and the...

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https://twitter.com/allanholloway/status/307159480464969728 https://twitter.com/historyboy77/status/307164532864851968 These are the two tweets that started it off. It's hard for me to link all the tweets in the correct both chronological and relevant order so you'll have to follow the tweets...

I've had a pop at this film on the forums, and now I'm turning said pop into a video This is just Part 1. And I'm hoping to go through the movie and Part 2 is already in the works Footnotes are included in the description, as i always do.

I find it interesting that some people now see me as some sort of authority in subjects i normally feel best left to others. It was in that context that i was sent a Youtube PM with the following: And I'm meant to respond to this how? By Mockery or otherwise? It isn't quite Rosenberg (as far...

I vaguely remember seeing a while back a short clip where Hovind in effect blames Darwin specifically for what happened at Katyn but i seem to have lost that one or it's been deleted from youtube. In the same breath IIRC he uses what i call "the argument by book title" that i will say i debunked...

Here's a sad story from the BBC News website; If his story is to be believed, his sexual abuse as a child by the hands of a priest turned him into something what certain Christians call a "Militant Atheist" which served as the basis for him being a cold blooded murderer. That would be the...

Well it's that time of the year again (i guess), all i have to say about this documentary, and the like is that if the following is really the best the paranormal scheme of things has to offer, then it is safe to safe to say then that they have nothing to offer (but i think we skeptics knew that...

Here it is in all it's inglorious form (pdf) if this thing manages to get put into practice come after the elections. You can almost kiss goodbye to any hopes of the secular state you want. Here's one segment of it: :facepalm:

so the source says she had a mental disorder and thus didn't actually know what she was doing, but it's not like Islamic conservatives care about that. :|

OK so perhaps this really doesn't actually beat owning the book on your bookshelf but nonetheless i have managed to locate William Shirer's classic on the internet for free. This edition doesn't come with the endnotes or bibliography like it's paper incarnation does so unless you buy the thing...

The government is to unveil controversial plans to make publicly funded scientific research immediately available for anyone to read for free by 2014, in the most radical shakeup of academic publishing since the invention of the internet says the guardian.

one of my favourite youtubers has returned :)

When an Atheist group calling itself "Backyard Skeptics" last year decided to use a misquotation of Jefferson on their billboards, guess what happened? Bruce Gleason, the founder of "Backyard Skeptics" admitted his mistake but it went around the Christian blogosphere anyways as supposed evidence...

(Oh really?) :facepalm: Im no geologist but to my eyes this 'thing' at the bottom of the Baltic sea looks like just another (broken/eroded) random rock formation which is being blown way out of proportion by our not-so-wonderful à¼ber-sensationalist tabloid media. It reminds me actually of...