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Monthly Archives: February 2013
Skeptic News: Could abnormal skull be from an alien?
Is the starchild skull that of an alien/hybrid child?
Pye says yes.
Science still says no. Continue reading
Posted in news, opinion, Scepticism
Tagged alien, DNA, extraterrestrial, Lloyd Pye, paranormal research, skeptic news, starchild skull
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Dolcefino: "Burzynski has published!"
What are we to make of Wayne Dolcifinos assertion that Burzynski has published clinical data?
But not in peer reviewed medical journals in annual reports to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission? Continue reading
Posted in Featured, headline, news, opinion, research, Scepticism, Science, Uncategorized
Tagged ANP, Burzynski, clinical trials, david james, Keir Liddle, results, SEC filings, Wayne dolcefino
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Skeptic News: Police officer latest victim of anti-vaccination violence in Pakistan
Gunmen shot and killed a police officer assigned to safeguard a poliovaccination team in the northwest city of Mardan on Tuesday, the latest in a pattern of attacks that have jeopardized efforts to rein in the disease in the South Asian nation. Continue reading
Posted in news, opinion, Scepticism
Tagged anti vaccination, anti-vaxx, immunization, murder, pakistan, policeman, shooting, skeptic news, vaccination
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Skeptic News: Another ASA complaint upheld against Errol Denton
Errol Denton has been taken to task by the ASA for his misleading and exaggerated claims for the benefit of Live Blood Analysis. Continue reading
Posted in news, opinion, Scepticism
Tagged advertising standards, asa, errol denton, live blood analysis, quack, skeptic news
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Skeptic News: Atheist Group Settles Landmark Discrimination Case with Michigan Country Club
A Michigan country club that cancelled an event by the Center for Inquiry (CFI), allegedly because of the speaker’s and attendees’ atheism, has agreed to a settlement in the case brought against it, marking perhaps the first time federal and state civil rights statutes have been successfully invoked by nonbelievers in a public accommodations lawsuit. Continue reading
Posted in news, opinion, Scepticism
Tagged atheism, center for inquiry, CFI, discrimination, Michigan, Richard Dawkins, skeptic news, Wyndgate Country Club
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Skeptic News: Atheists discriminated against globally
Atheists, humanists and freethinkers face widespread discrimination around the world with expression of their views criminalized and subject in some countries to capital punishment, the United Nations was told on Monday. Continue reading
Posted in news, opinion, Scepticism
Tagged atheist, criminalisation, discrimination, prosecution, skeptic news, UN
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Skeptic News: Anti-science bills quashed
A number of education bills in America supporting the teaching of creationist doctrine have failed. Continue reading
Skeptic News: Healer and guard get life for murder
A popular KwaZulu-Natal traditional healer, Nkosinathi Gumede, 49, and his bodyguard have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of the healer’s wife. Continue reading
Posted in news, opinion, Scepticism
Tagged aids, alternative medicine, Herbal Medicine, hiv, murder, Nkosinathi Gumede, skeptic news, south africa, traditional healer
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Skeptic News: Church of Scientology denies holding woman in isolation
The Church Of Scientology in Sydney has been accused of holding a young Taiwanese woman hostage after she suffered a mental breakdown. The Church of Scientology denies the allegations. Continue reading
Posted in news, opinion, Scepticism
Tagged alice wu, australian, Introspection run down, mental breakdown, scientology, skeptic news
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Skeptic News: Louisville hospitals embracing alternative medicine
Hospitals in Louisiana are embracing alternative medicine. Continue reading
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Tagged alternative medicine, Louisiana, skeptic news
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