Stuart Robbins has added to the work he's already done on his podcast. Stuart takes us through more about how young earth creationists also oppose the flat earth nonsense. Anyone who has listened to Stuart before knows he's not a YEC or creationist. His point here is...
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Giant 5th Dynasty Skeleton from Giza, Egypt
I came across this article tonight -- it's accessible online: D. M. Mulhern, "A Probable Case of Gigantism in a Fifth Dynasty Skeleton from the Western Cemetery at Giza,Egypt," International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 15 (2005): 261–275. In contrast to the wild,...
Sleep Paralysis and Alien Abduction
A few months ago my PEERANORMAL podcast did an episode on the phenomenon of sleep paralysis. As is our format, I and the other hosts read several peer-reviewed articles about the topic and discussed them. Below is an article we didn't discuss, as the episode wasn't...
Peeranormal Podcast Episode 08: Do Transplant Recipients Take on the Personality of their Donor?
There have been dozens of documented cases where the recipient of a transplant, often involving the heart, apparently take on the personalities of the organ donor. Recipients also report memories of the donor, and memories that belong to the donor, despite never...
This is What Encourages “Truth by Anomaly and Outlier” Thinking
I've blogged about the problem of how the peer review process in the sciences has been compromised by laziness and money. Here we go again: "Sting Operation Reveals Science's Insane Fake News Problem." As the article's author notes by way of explaining his title: This...
PEERANORMAL Episode 07: DMT, Psychedelics, Religious Mysticism, and Paranormal Experiences
This episode focuses on entheogens—psychedelic drugs that are known to cause “mystical states” of consciousness. Our hosts discuss Rick Strassman’s work on DMT, but that is merely a subset of entheogen study. Current research in the fields of brain science,...
PseudoAstronomy Podcast Episode on the Mandela Effect
Stuart is on a roll. Fresh off this three-part series on the flat earth nonsense, here's an episode on the goofy Mandela Effect. Needless to say, I can hardly wait to listen.
PEERANORMAL Episode 6: Sleep Paralysis
Sleep paralysis can be defined in several ways. In terms of the experiencer, it can be described as “a visitation by a malevolent creature which attacked its victims as they slept” (Cox). More clinically, sleep paralysis is understood as “a transient, conscious state...
Naked Bible Podcast Episode 129: ETS-SBL Interviews with Scholars – Part 2
During the recent annual meetings for biblical studies scholars held in San Antonio, Dr. Heiser interviewed a number of scholars about their recent work. In Part 2 of those interviews, we meet Dr. Andy Naselli (New Testament professor at Bethlehem College and...
Serious Science and Christian Faith Incompatible?
Go ahead, tell me that old wives tale again. Question: What do you get when you cross a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford, an associate of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, and a young man who grew up in rural Africa who had a...
Exposing Modern Flat Earth Belief – Part 2 of the Exposing PseudoAstronomy Podcast Series
I blogged a short time ago about Stuart Robbins' podcast series on modern flat earth belief. Stuart is a PhD in geology whose dissertation was on the geology of Mars. His podcast is, as its title suggests, about debunking nonsensical beliefs tied to astronomical...
Peeranormal Episode #4 – Crop Circles
This episode of Peeranormal takes a look at some of the sparse academic peer-reviewed research on crop circles to discuss if they are man-made, created by an unknown natural force, or something paranormal. The episode is now live.
Modern Flat Earth Theory Exposed, Part I
Back in February I caused a minor brouhaha (have to love that word) when I blogged, "Christians Who Believe the Earth is Really Flat — Does It Get Any Dumber Than This?" I'm a Christian and biblical scholar who has a grasp of the fact that ancient Israelite cosmology...
Earth to Lynn Marzulli
Lynn Marzulli (L. A. Marzulli, but I knew him years ago as Lynn) just posted something accusing me of making "tired and pompous" and "false" claims about his fairy research in a "hit piece" here. What a bore. Whip out the persecution complex instead of making the...
Elongated Skulls and Christian Ethics
Those of you with an interest in the elongated skull paleobabble (that they have something to do with aliens or nephilim) will find this short essay of interest. It's from the Hot Cup of Joe blog. It's basically an overview of the methodological problems of the...