*Editor’s Note: Because being a paranoid, delusional dumbass is as American as apple pie! While it’s difficult to fathom why anyone would deny the deaths of 26 children and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary last month, the conspiracy theories surrounding the massacre actually follow a fairly common pattern, experts who study them say, and may … Continue reading
*Editor’s Note: This is an excellent overview of the idiotic, paranoid conspiracy theories that have managed to seep their way into the minds of our people. Especially those who listen to Hip-Hop. My only worry is that those who read “The Believer’s Guide” portion won’t realize that the author is clowning these beliefs. Why did … Continue reading
December 21, 2012, signals the much anticipated passing of the 13 Bak’tun in the ancient American indigenous system of time keeping. If you are in the nation’s capital tomorrow, you can come the Smithsonian Institute National Museum of the American Indian to hear a presentation entitled, “Maya from the Inside: The 13 Bak’tun as Challenge … Continue reading
People who are expecting the world to end on December 21 – the so-called ‘Mayan Apocalypse’ – should be in for a pleasant disappointment. The ‘prophecy’ does not stem from the Mayans at all – or date from thousands of years ago. Instead, the beliefs come from two New Age books in the Seventies and … Continue reading
*Editor’s Note: Personally, I can’t wait until December 22nd, so all this bullshit will stop. The only people pushing “2012 Apocalypse” crap are opportunistic liars, preying on the insecurities of gullible people. I wonder what the next new-age / conspiracy loon cash-cow will be once this one passes? – Kurly NASA scientists took time on … Continue reading
Mexikaresistance.com Note: And then there’s this asshole… In 2008, Dr. Eben Alexander contracted a rare form of bacterial meningitis that, according to his account, shut down his neocortex, the seat of human consciousness. The near-death odyssey that followed was, he writes, “perhaps one of the most convincing such cases in modern history.” At the end … Continue reading
Mexikaresistance.com Note: According to these nutjobs, Indigenous people are down with demon sex… The reigning scientific consensus on sexual orientation is that it’s an inherited, biological trait, but that’s just because scientists don’t know how to party. A far sexier explanation has been offered up by Christian magazine Charisma, which conducted its own investigation into … Continue reading
Mexikaresistance.com Note: Secede? How about these squatter babies just go back to the lands of their ancestors? Hundreds of thousands of disgruntled conservatives, still smarting from the re-election of President Obama last week, are signing petitions to allow more than 30 states to secede from the United States — and they are being joined by … Continue reading
Edwin Barnhart, director of the Maya Exploration Center working in Palenque, Mexico, gave his speech, “2012 and the End of Days: Misunderstanding the Maya Calendar,” as part of a University Program Council event Thursday night.
Over the past weekend, I had the opportunity to attend CSICon in Nashville, Tennessee. The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (“CSI”) combats all sorts of pseudoscience, including creationism/creation science/intelligent design and alternative/complementary/integrative medicine. Our own Team SBM was ably represented by Harriet Hall, David Gorski and Kimball Atwood, whose presentation highlighted the credulous acceptance of CAM … Continue reading