The Scandalous Decline of Rational Thought
Monday, April 13th, 2009 Posted in Education, General Science, Paranormal | 3 Comments »In the most literal sense possible, I urge you to read it and weep. The bit that angers me isn't the whole 'heaven' thing. I can sort-of understand why people would want to believe in an afterlife that is better than ...
Psychic Detective Monitor
Friday, March 27th, 2009 Posted in Paranormal, Psychology | No Comments »My "psychic detective monitor" has been going haywire recently, picking up several changes to the psychic detective site in the last few months. And best of all, I found this gem. Yes folks, there's some good news - you too ...
Fun with Fraud Ratings
Sunday, February 1st, 2009 Posted in Internet, Paranormal | 2 Comments »Those of you who have been following for a while will remember my previous work on fraud ratings. Remember that a fraud rating is not claiming that a person is a fraud, lest I get sued: it is simply a ...
Gratitude
Thursday, December 4th, 2008 Posted in Biology, Health, Paranormal | No Comments »I'm stuck at home today feeling like death, with a splitting headache, fever, cough and sore throat. Fortunately, I went to see the doctor yesterday before it got too bad, so I'm all stocked up with medicines. At least it ...
Browne’s ‘Fraud Rating’ jumps sharply
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 Posted in Internet, Paranormal | No Comments »Here's an interesting discovery over the last week: Sylvia Browne's fraud rating has suddenly shot up by over three times! Between 29th September and 6th October 2008, despite a fall of nearly 5% in the number of web pages mentioning her ...
Sheldrake on Psychics
Monday, September 22nd, 2008 Posted in Paranormal, Psychology | No Comments »I stumbled across this video of Rupert Sheldrake, renowned researcher into the paranormal, talking about how terrible it is that mainstream science ignores claims of psychic powers. He seems to be advocating the Brian Josephson-style position that these things are ...
Fraud ratings
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 Posted in Internet, Paranormal | No Comments »As part of my new role as Cyber-Skeptic (TM), I thought I'd start monitoring some other numbers that people might find interesting. So, here's introducing the fraud ratings system. Yet again, this comes thanks to those wonderful folks at Google. Here's ...
Operation Psychic-watch
Monday, July 28th, 2008 Posted in Internet, Paranormal | 2 Comments »So I had another great idea. Lots of psychics put up predictions on their websites; predictions of events that they claim will take place at some point over the upcoming year. One of the most verbose seems to be Nikki, ...
Marmite tape
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in Paranormal | No Comments »I'm trying to find out the details of an audio tape that I remember listening to as a child, that I think was part of a promotion by (something like) Marmite. On this tape were various stories of paranormal events ...
Being polite
Sunday, July 13th, 2008 Posted in General, Paranormal | No Comments »Yes, I'm British and as such I'm supposed to be infuriatingly polite to pretty much everyone, often to my own detriment. And I think I probably am, except for that seething resentment that pretty much all British people retain quietly ...
