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By Evan Bernstein, on May 23rd, 2011 Sometimes in the world of Woo, people will call upon pseudosciences or fantasies by introducing another pseudoscience or fantasy to help bolster their claims. For example, we’ve come across people who believe, and have written books about Bigfoot (Bigfeet) being a race of time-shifting extra terrestrials. We are also very familiar with people who consult [...]
By Evan Bernstein, on March 31st, 2011 Dear MSNBC,
Why are claims of a bigfoot sightings in your science section? Upon cursory review (and I mean all of 10 seconds) a 5th grade science student can determine that this is nothing but a hoax – and a really lame one to boot. Blurry video at 15 feet? The cheapest cameras auto-focus in a [...]
By Bob Novella, on March 29th, 2011 We recently received the following question.
Hello Chaps!While scanning through one of the god channels the other day Dr Richard Kent put forward his “Evolution is Impossible!” evidence list. Most of it was ridiculous, playground stuff, surely only plausible for those desperate to believe it. One point was curious though in his argument for a [...]
By Brian Trent, on March 23rd, 2011
Shamelessly trying to exploit the fervor from Japan’s tragedy, online news outlets are trying to link the discovery of sunken ruins off of the Spanish coast to tsunamis.
First, the story:
University of Hartford Professor Richard Freund is the head of an international team of researchers searching for Atlantis. In 2009 and 2010, they [...]
By Bob Novella, on March 18th, 2011 We recently received an interesting question:
I have an interesting idea that could in theory break the famous law that states nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. More specifically, a method of communicating that could instantly travel across space. Suppose a really long pole similar to the space elevator made out of [...]
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