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Humor Religion

While I’m on the subject of Zionist conspiracies…

…here’s an example where the conspiracy obviously failed and failed miserably. And if you like their Chanukah specials, you’ll love their Ramadan lunch specials. You’d think they’d know better in New York City, though.

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Anti-Semitism History Religion Skepticism/critical thinking

The ultimate “Zionist” conspiracy

If you’ve hung out in forums where Holocaust deniers, 9/11 Truthers, and other conspiracy theorists hang out, as I have done, one thing you’ll notice is that these particular purveyors of dubious conspiracy-mongering seem to have a particular love of demonizing Jews (or, as the smarter ones tend to call them in order to try […]

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Biology History Intelligent design/creationism Religion Science Skepticism/critical thinking

Does anyone teach history anymore?

This video would argue that the answer to the question in the title is no: “I don’t think anything predated Christians”? What about Judaism? You know, the Old Testament, the book in which, Christians say, many prophecies of Jesus’ coming were made? I’d try to reassure myself that she’s just more ignorant than average about […]

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Medicine Quackery Religion Skepticism/critical thinking

Like the Phoenix, Peter Popoff rises from the ashes of his butt-kicking by James Randi

Depressing. One of the fakest faith-healers of all, Peter Popoff, who was so memorably exposed for a fraud by James Randi back in the 1980s when Randi caught him using a small radio receiver to be fed information on people he was “healing” from his wife, who was reading them off of prayer cards, is […]

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Bioethics Medicine Religion

One last comment on the Dennis Lindberg case

I’ve been spending a bit of time discussing the sad case of Dennis Lindberg, a 14-year-old youth with leukemia who died because of his refusal to accept a blood transfusion when his hematocrit fell to life-threateningly low levels apparently during chemotherapy. My position is that, while competent adults have the right to refuse transfusion for […]