Robert Lanza spews more nonsense

What is this guy smoking anyway?

I'd love to have his job. Toke up, spew a bunch of philosophical and pseudoscience BS, label it an "experiment" or "science" and send it off for publication. Sadly I have to work for a living and produce intelligible content and not transcribed drug trips.
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Liar or Moron?

I posted the following reply to a woman who made some rather absurd claims about atheists:

http://answersto.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/the-silliest-atheist-say-or-do

I'm a Christian and I found your flat out lies about atheists to be disgusting and an embarrassment to Christendom.

"Please don’t stand for the all atheist in the world, you don’t know every nature they have. Luckily I had a bump in roads with those silliest atheist that’s why I’m stating this fact in my article and in my vid."

So, you're making fun of one specific person and extrapolating their beliefs to ALL theists?

That's no different than claiming Fred Phelps is representative of all Christians or the 9/11 bombers are representative of all Muslims. You're cherry picking a specific individual who doesn't even represent the mainstream of atheist thought.

"Sadly but most of them are rly practicing this silliness."

That's a flat out lie. Did you not read the passage that tells us not to bear false witness against our neighbors?

"I’m pretty sure that you also had an encounter with this kind as well. but you just disregard that without paying any attention into it."

I've never met an atheist who believed in Satan.

The more I read of your comments the more I suspect you're NOT a Christian, but someone who is out to make Christians look ignorant and stupid. The flat out lies you're telling are too absurd to be written off as mere ignorance on your part.

Terrariums for Kids

I need to file this idea away for when my son is a little older.

Mercola should learn to fact check

Fruit Juice and Honey both get a lot of their sweetening power from fructose. Mercola must be some kind of idiot to recommend fructose heavy products on one hand but advise against consuming it on the other.
About Health
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The Muppets: Pöpcørn

My neighbor Totoro becomes a commuter. on Twitpic

My neighbor Totoro becomes a commuter. on Twitpic

The Evolution of Creationism: Part I

Malena Ernman & Martin Fröst in Flight of the Bumblebee

Cycles

What Happens When You Die? Babbling Idiot Suggests Time Simply Reboots

I think this article was GREAT! I printed it up and now I'll have all the manure I need to fertilize my garden this weekend. I think it's hilarious how the author engages in some scientifically illiterate naval gazing and calls it "evidence." Is ALL the "news" on the Huffington Post this shoddy and incompetent or is Robert Lanza an aberration?
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AOL News gives mentally challenged man reporting gig!

The article Stanton Friedman: A Scientist Searches for the Truth of UFOs - AOL News was written by Lee Speigel The article itself is a testament to shoddy, incompetent reporting. Instead of actually asking any challenging questions, Lee Speigel bends over backwards to lend creditability to the wild, unsupported claims of a well known UFO crank. Instead of actually asking for evidence, Lee Speigel bends over backwards to make his subject seem more reliable. This is known as an "Argument for Authority" and its a common, and shoddy form of argument used primarily by people who have no actual evidence to back up their assertions.

Fascinated by the extreme incompetence of Lee Speigel's "reporting" I decided to see what else he had written for AOL News. His bio says:

Lee Speigel
Contributor

Writer, reporter, and paranormal expert Lee Speigel is the former host of NBC Radio's "The Edge of Reality." He's hosted nearly 1,500 programs on unexplained phenomena, and previously worked at Westwood One Radio and ABCNews.com. He is the only person to produce a presentation at the United Nations on the subject of UFOs.

This explains a lot. Lee Speigel is happy to ignore the lack of evidence not for a single interview, but as a fundamental, core facet of his very existence. Let's look at some of his other stories:


Netherlands Town Claims Tallest Lego Tower
Nuclear Physicist Describes Vast UFO Cover-Up
Octopus Tree: Ancient Indian Burial Ground or ... Just a Tree?
No Sea Serpents Here, Says UK's Royal Navy
Russian Governor Says He Made Friends With ETs
Science Embraces Time Travel, Once Stuff of Sci-Fi
Jersey Devil: Horrific Fantasy or Genetic Mutant?
Police Tried to Protect 'Nessie' From Hunters
ET Debate: To Speak or Not to Speak?
Mr. Spock Beams Into Retirement


Lee Speigel's publication history seems to contain mostly nonsense like this. The most hard-hitting, fact based articles I saw was the one about the Leggo tower and Leonard Nimoy's retirement. Most of his writing deals with fringe nonsense with no real evidence to support it.

Lee Speigel would benefit from an introduction to the Skeptoid Podcast. Perhaps he'll learn a thing or two about critical thinking skills.

Eivind Berge's Blog: Fighting with monsters

Eivind Berge's Blog: Fighting with monsters

The nutbar who claimed that rape was a rational response to feminism has asked "Have I become a monster?"

Personally I suspect he's really a deep-cover feminist out to make anyone who opposes feminism look a psychotic, sociopathic, amoral sub-human. Let's be honest here, no sane mind capable of empathizing with other people would honestly think rape could be a rational reaction to difficulty getting a date.

The kind of outright hostility to his fellow human beings portrayed in Eivind's posts depicts not a rational human mind, but a marginally controlled predator. If the posts on his blog honesty reflected his real views, then the question readers should ask is not "if" Eivind has a collection of trophies from animals he's tortured and murdered, but how large that collection is. If this blog reflected Eivind's true beliefs then it would only be a matter of time before he went out to rape a woman, possibly torturing and murdering his victim, if he hasn't done so already.

Eivind is either an uber-feminist troll or a serial killer in training. I think all of us would rather Eivind be a deep cover feminist than the next BTK.

Responding to the "Rape is equality" moron

This was also written about by PZ Myersin the entry You can tell where this is going, but you can hardly believe it when it gets there

Below is my open letter response to the nit-wit who tried to claim that rape was a man's "right."

Eivind,

Women aren't refusing to sleep with you because you don't have enough money.

They're refusing to sleep with you because you're a loser. I'm not saying that as a joke or an insult, but as a simple statement of fact. Feminist bashing, like racism, is a refuge for sad, pathetic people who perceive themselves as failures and need to blame someone. People like Rush Limbaugh hop on the anti-feminist bandwagon because they know banging that drum will draw in the sad, pathetic losers desperate to blame someone other than themselves for their shortcomings.

I don't know what personal truncations drove you to the point where you actually considered rape to be "OK" but feminists have nothing to do with it. You're just using them as a scapegoat to defer responsibility for your own condition.

Man up and grow a pair. Take some personal responsibility for your condition instead of blaming a straw man vision of feminism.

Baby buns rescued from cruelty by Little Furries Rescue

Karen's Spiritual Journey

Preaching to the Liar (Prank Call to a Televangelist)

Crap Hardware

I just sent the following to the tech support for the Flip Ultra:

My Flip refuses to turn on. Changing the batteries had no effect. Pushing or pushing and holding the power button does nothing. Plugging the Flip into the USB port on my or my wife's Mac does nothing. The device is not recognized or detected by either computer even though it has worked fine on both in the past.

As far as I can tell the unit appears to be completely dead despite being only a couple months old and having been subjected to no abuse.

The only response so far:

The reference number for your question is '100514-000574'.

Bee Sting Therapy Returns

The Cultural revolution really trashed Chinese medicine. Most of the doctors were executed or deported along with all the other "intellectuals." When the violence died down the Chinese government started pimping all the folk remedies that had been abandoned when western medicine that actually WORKED had been introduced. It's a shame long discredited nonsense like this is still circulating.



I wonder how many of the people going in for bee sting therapy avoid vaccines.

The gayest video on youtube

This gentleman addresses the nutjobs at the Westboro Baptist Church with "Why God Hates Fags or 'Bitch I get more dick then you'"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm9nw5GdlzQ

Next, a video that has been described to me as "The gayest video on youtube." I'm not sure I agree that it's THE gayest, but I'd like to submit it for your consideration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q842E-a-dEw

His other videos are also hilarious.

Children in LDS Mormon community chant "Assassinate Obama"

In all fairness to the racist, hate fueled psychopaths chanting below, Bush didn't get much of this because his critics were largely more terrified of the specter of "President Cheney" than they were of Bush.