If you’ve been reading the comments to the posts I’ve written about Steven Greer’s alleged six-inch alien specimen, you’ll notice that several folks have presumed that the 9% unidentified DNA means the specimen is alien or an alien-human...
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Conspiracy Thinking and Intolerance
I recommend this UK Telegraph article to anyone interested in how (“big C”) conspiracists think: “The 9-11 Conspiracy Theorist Who Changed His Mind.” It’s about the conversion, so to speak, of a formerly high-profile 9-11 Truther. Very...
Robert Ripley: A More Honest Showman Than Steven Greer
I just blogged this over at UFO Religions so I thought I'd reproduce this here. >> In the latest twist to the Steven Greer ET disclosure shell game (hat tip to BK), Greg Newkirk of the Who Forted? blog and Lee Spiegel of the Huffington Post (photo credit for the...
Atacama Human-Not-Alien Specimen Update
Thanks go to Cris Putnam for sending this link my way today. It’s from the Stanford Daily . . . as in Stanford University . . . as in that place that employs Dr. Garry Nolan, the guy who did the DNA analysis of the Atacama “alien”. The story once...
Steven Greer’s Non-Alien Human Corpse: A Mysterious Boondoggle is Still a Boondoggle
I saw this article today which I know will be of interest to everyone except those who still give Steven Greer the time of day: “Alien-Looking Skeleton Poses Medical Mystery.” The short article is worth reading. The best part is the absolute confirmation,...
Did the CIA Investigate Noah’s Ark on Mount Ararat?
Sure doesn’t look that way. The above link takes you to some documentation on this issue posted by Jason Colavito on his website. I happened to come across it a week or so ago. It’s interesting for me in that it mentions astronaut Jim Irwin. I heard Irwin...
Why Conspiracy Thinking Can Be So Incoherent
You just HAVE to watch the video below (7:00). It's clear and to the point, and you'll no doubt have a laugh or two - a video on how Luke Skywalker's destruction of the Death Star was *really* an inside job. It's very well done and has almost two million views on...
The Atacama Mummified Human Fetus … er, Alien
Yesterday I blogged about the upcoming Citizen’s Hearing for Disclosure. Trust me when I say I’m hoping something substantive comes of it. Stephen Bassett has assembled a lot of people I’d consider credible (but I wouldn’t say that about...
Shroud of Turin Double-Take: Yep, It’s Easter
This headline caught my eye today: “Turin shroud makes rare appearance on TV amid claims that it is not a forgery.” Why, you ask? Â Because last year at precisely this time — Easter — basically the same sort of story ran. I blogged it here under...
Simcha Jacobovici Sues Archaeologist Joe Zias
You can read the story here. In a nutshell, Jacobovici is torqued that Zias’ criticisms of the former’s archaeological claims as erroneous and goofy have cost him money. Since Zias (unlike me) is a professional archaeologist, his criticisms about...
Poof! The Magic Creationist Dragon Disappears
Readers know I have no axe to grind against the idea of a creator. I know too many scientists with PhDs teaching at research universities to think that the idea of a creator is impossible for a modern scientist to embrace. And I’ve read enough good evolutionary...
Immanuel Velikovsky Resources
Immanuel Velikovsky’s name is, for many, synonymous with paleobabble. I can think of a few other candidates I’d move ahead of him for such an honor, but Velikovsky indeed belongs to the “modern classical period” of wacky stuff related to study...
Why the Piri Reis Map is Neither an Enigma Nor Evidence for Ancient Aliens
This recent post on the Bad Archaeology blog provides a much-needed antidote against the Piri Reis paleobabble contagion. As author Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews notes at the outset: Maps of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries are a favourite source of information for...
UFO Propaganda in Movies and TV Shows: Robbie Graham Interview
Jack Brewer of the excellent blog, The UFO Trail, recently interviewed Robbie Graham, who blogs at the fascinating Silver Screen Saucers. The thrust of the interview is that motion pictures and television have far greater potential to influence beliefs about UFOs and...
December 21: We’re All Still Here
I never got to the *real* debunking of the 2012 nonsense last night on Coast to Coast AM. All that “galactic alignment” and “Planet X” stuff is utter hogwash, as everyone now knows (and anyone thinking clearly new long ago). Â But in any event,...