Blogs Posts on "Pseudoscience"
2012: The 2012circus for dummies by Archaeological Haecceities on Nov 12, 2009Tomorrow Emmerich’s ultimate disaster movie has worldwide premiere. Most reviews have already given it thumbs down and based on what I have seen of the movie so far I am not likely to give it a positive remark. For those not acquainted with what t...
2012: Conspiracy pt 1 by Archaeological Haecceities on Nov 1, 2009One of the recurrent themes in the 2012 circus is conspiracy theory. The most popular conspiracy theory today is the one related to the 9/11 event (and in my post on numerology you can see that number 11 is important for these hoaxers). The 9/11 cons...
2012: How to spot a prophet’s Maya hoax – ethnocentrism and Annunaki by Archaeological Haecceities on Oct 28, 2009Not long after CNN posted the El Mirador videos on internet the site was caught up in the 2012circus. Just the fact that it appears to have been completely unheard of before this is just revealing how ignorant the 2012ers are. The site has been known...
pseudoscience by walking on water on Oct 27, 2009“But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.” - Michael Shermer Posted in Quotes & Sayings Tagged: Benjamin Chew, Michael Shermer, myths, pseudoscience, Quotes & Sayings,...
destination untruth? by walking on water on Oct 27, 2009If the “results” of the TV series Destination Truth is anything to go by, one can safely conclude that much of the paranormal is just rubbish. This series premiered in 2007, and featured paranormal investigator Joshua Gates as he led his...
2012: How to spot a prophet’s Maya hoax: false dilemmas and straw men by Archaeological Haecceities on Oct 18, 2009The easiest way to detect a 2012 prophet’s logical fallacy is to look for false dilemmas and straw men in their arguments. A false dilemma is when one characterizes the opposite position (that would be science or the “orthodox” view as they oft...
2012: Ancient alien theory vs mainstream archaeology by Archaeological Haecceities on Oct 14, 2009Now, this is fun. It is a satire on creationism but unfortunately this is pretty much how the UFO – 2012hoaxers argue. In a “debate” I had with a hoaxer the flying spaghetti monster was actually brought up… I found this on...
2012: 2012 (new movie trailer) by Archaeological Haecceities on Oct 13, 2009Here is a new trailer of the 2012 movie. Some earlier trailers can be see seen in this post. I have not much more to add in terms of comments apart from the mass suicide at Tikal. This is definitely an indication of the strong Western/Christian/Sect...
Pseudoscience without sense by Life in the Fast Lane on Sep 30, 2009You might get the feeling that some of us ‘living in the fast lane’ are not the biggest fans of homeopathy. In one sense that’s not true – after all, this humbug nonsense can be good for a laugh – wouldn’t it be...
More Anti-homeopathy diatribe! by Life in the Fast Lane on Sep 30, 2009Watch this clip from the brilliant Richard Dawkins on homeopathy from the UK series ‘The enemies of reason‘ – the whole series is out there on Bittorrent if you want, not that I would approve of that sort of thing…. I especial...
