McFatty | March 21, 2010
How To Say It? Swift Written by James Randi Sunday, 21 March 2010 12:37 Well, here goes. I really resent the term, but I use it because it’s recognized and accepted. I’m gay. via How To Say It? Congratulations to Randi!
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CityNews: CityNews Exclusive: The Mother, The Child, The School Board And The Psychic “Colleen Leduc already had a lot going against her. The Barrie woman was holding down a job while struggling to raise her autistic 11-year-old daughter. She couldn’t afford to give the child the intensive therapy she needed, and was forced to send [...]
McFatty | May 12, 2008
Whats the Harm? We also wish to call attention to the types of misinformation which have caused this sort of harm. On the topics page you will see a number of popular topics that that are being promoted via misinformation. Many of them have no basis in truth at all. A few are based in [...]
McFatty | February 12, 2008
Edge: Cover Story – Publico Sunday Magazine When the world’s great scientific thinkers change their minds My two favourites: Helena Cronin, philosopher, London School of Economics I used to think that these patterns of sex differences resulted mainly from average differences between men and women in innate talents, tastes and temperaments. After all, in talents men are [...]
McFatty | January 29, 2008
FSTDT Top 100 100 Greatest Quotes from fundamentalist christian chat rooms A favourite : I am a bit troubled. I believe my son has a girlfriend, because she left a dirty magazine with men in it under his bed. My son is only 16 and I really don’t think he’s ready to date yet. What’s [...]
McFatty | December 21, 2007
Medical myths — Vreeman and Carroll 335 (7633): 1288 — BMJ “Physicians understand that practicing good medicine requires the constant acquisition of new knowledge, though they often assume their existing medical beliefs do not need re-examination. These medical myths are a light hearted reminder that we can be wrong and need to question what other [...]
McFatty | December 6, 2007
Gospel of Thomas – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “The Gospel of Thomas is a New Testament-era apocryphon completely preserved in a papyrus Coptic manuscript discovered in 1945 at Nag Hammadi, Egypt. The book was bound in a method now called Coptic binding. The Gospel of Thomas was written by a school of early Christians who [...]
McFatty | November 30, 2007
The Associated Press: Pope Criticizes Atheism in Encyclical VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI strongly criticized atheism in a major document released Friday, saying it had led to some of the “greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice” ever known. In his second encyclical, Benedict also critically questioned modern Christianity, saying its focus [...]
McFatty | November 13, 2007
Your Creation Museum Report ON THE CREATION MUSEUM By John Scalzi “Here’s how to understand the Creation Museum: First, imagine, if you will, a load of horseshit. And we’re not talking just your average load of horseshit; no, we’re talking colossal load of horsehit. An epic load of horseshit.”
McFatty | November 11, 2007
I ordered some books from Amazon recently, and I am quite pleased with “Elephants on Acid“, which is a very interesting book about strange science experiments, and I haven’t yet started “Flim-Flam” by James Randi, but I expect it to be good. I also got a copy of “Amazing… But False” Amazon Link with a foreward [...]
McFatty | November 1, 2007
10 Tips For Dealing With James Randi: Claim Your Million Today! I am a huge Randi fan, and I am so fucking sick of seeing everything in this list tried again and again. Also from the same site, some very interesting psychology of magic: http://www.randi.org/joom/content/view/111/2/ “ And on every one of these, he chose the “star” as the symbol to send out by his massive mind power! Why? Because when exhibited or listed among the five choices, [...]
McFatty | October 26, 2007
Why Won’t God Heal Amputees? There has never been an amputee who regrew a limb through prayer. Why is this?
McFatty | October 25, 2007
make a starship enterprise out of a floppy how to make a starship enterprise out of an old floppy disk Ends up looking like the one on my desk here:
