Category: News of the Weird

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Anti-Semitism History Holocaust News of the Weird

A story that should be an April Fools’ Day joke, but isn’t

Three words you never want your name associated with: Nazi sex scandal.

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Anti-Semitism Biology Entertainment/culture Evolution History Holocaust Humor Intelligent design/creationism Movies News of the Weird Pseudoscience Religion Skepticism/critical thinking

Things that make me smile, Saturday edition, part 1: Creationists shooting themselves in the foot

The other night, I wrote about how the painfully inept and just plain dumb actions of the producer of Expelled!, the neuron-apoptosing movie that’s basically an extended argumentum ad Nazium against the dreaded “Darwinism” that blames Hitler, Stalin, and, apparently, puppy hatred on Charles Darwin himself. Basically, the producers were having one of their private […]

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Computers and social media News of the Weird

When the Terminator becomes real…

…two words: Killer robots! Clearly, we’re all doomed. Skynet, here we come!

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Intelligent design/creationism News of the Weird Pseudoscience Skepticism/critical thinking

File under: “You can’t make stuff like this up”

When you don’t have the facts on your side, can’t get published in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, and have consistently failed to make a case for your hypothesis, what do you do? Well, if you’re a real scientist, you might just finally pack it in, admit that you were probably wrong, and move on to […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine News of the Weird Quackery

Talk about a real pain in the…

…posterior: MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russians visiting a health resort received a rude shock when a nurse used hydrogen peroxide instead of water to give them enemas. Itar-Tass news agency reported Thursday that 17 tourists in the Caucasus spa town of Yessentuki had to be treated in hospital after the mix-up. All I can say is…ouch! […]