Posted on October 16, 2009 by The Skeptic Blacksheep
I knew it wouldn’t be long before some slimey psychic did a séance to contact Michael Jackson. Enter Derek Acorah. Sky1 will be screening two shows, Michael Jackson: The Live Séance and Michael Jackson: The Search For His Spirit, in November
Please follow this link to Derek’s official website, I have purposely linked to the page where [...]
Filed under: Crazy, Pseudoscience | Tagged: Derek Acorah, Michael Jackson, Psychic, Psychic Medium, Sky1 | 1 Comment »
Posted on September 2, 2009 by The Skeptic Blacksheep
The trouble with going offline for a few days is that it’s a lot like going on a long holiday, you spend a lot of time trying to catch up on the news and gossip that you missed out on. And boy, have I missed out on some good stuff.
It seems a certain homeopathic ”doctor” has [...]
Filed under: Crazy, Pseudoscience, Skepticism, Stupidity | Tagged: Homeopathy | 8 Comments »
Posted on August 16, 2009 by The Skeptic Blacksheep
Just how gullible are we? I decided to do a search for the wackiest woo items on the web that made some outrageous claims – and some had outrageous price tags to match.
The Pulsor products are described in the quote below
A Pulsor is a solid-state composite of `semi-intelligent’ micro-crystals, arranged in very specific patterns, giving it [...]
Filed under: Crazy, Skepticism, Stupidity | Tagged: Crazy, H2Om Water, JumpSnap, Pulsor Set: Angel Vortex Stabiliser Set, Pulsor: Slotted Infra Card, USB Ghost Radar, woo products | Leave a Comment »
Posted on August 13, 2009 by The Skeptic Blacksheep
Who needs a vaccine when all you need to do is chant a prayer and blow on the horn of a ram to protect yourself against the H1N1 virus.
On Monday morning a group of rabbis and kabbalists flew over Israel chanting prayers and blowing on the shofar because they wanted to stop the spread of [...]
Filed under: Crazy, Religion | Tagged: Flu Vaccine, Israel, MYstics, Rabbi, Shofar, Swine Flu | 2 Comments »
Posted on July 7, 2009 by The Skeptic Blacksheep
It seems Michael Jackson has been doing some interviews since his death. I knew it wouldn’t be long before some tacky medium crawled out from under a rock to announce that they had spoken to Michael, I was just wondering which one of them would be first. It seems likeJames Van Praagh is the winner [...]
Filed under: Crazy, Pseudoscience, Skepticism, Stupidity | Tagged: James Van Praagh, John Edward, Medium, Michael Jackson, Psychic, Psychic Medium, Scam Artists, Sylvia Browne | 4 Comments »
Posted on July 5, 2009 by The Skeptic Blacksheep
had no idea just how much craziness and downright stupidity I would encounter in my search of end of the world predictions. Theories about how the world will end range from research into dragons, Egypt and the hidden Hall of Records, planet X, pole shifts and the prophecies of the Mayans, Nostradamus, Zecharia Sitchin [...]
Filed under: Crazy, Pseudoscience, Skepticism, Stupidity | Tagged: 2012, 21 December 2012, Aliens, Banda Aceh, Bunker Construction, Doomsday, Earthquakes, Egypt, Electro Magnetic Radiation, Emergency Kit, Gamma Ray Burst, Hall of Records, How To Survive 2012, Maps, Mayan Calendar, Nostradamus, Pole Shift, Supervolcano, Survival Guide, Tinfoil Hats, Tsunami, woo, Zecharia Sitchin | 3 Comments »
Posted on May 27, 2009 by The Skeptic Blacksheep
If you want to see what stupid looks like, take a good look at the photograph of Swazi MP Timothy Myeni. During a speech at a leadership workshop for MPs, Timothy Myeni said that Swaziland needed a mandatory law for HIV testing and that should anyone test positive he or she should be branded on [...]
Filed under: Crazy, Education, Stupidity | Tagged: AIDS, HIV, Stupid, Swaziland, Timothy Myeni | 6 Comments »
Posted on May 10, 2009 by The Skeptic Blacksheep
Since the beginning of recorded history, doomsday prophets have come up with many end-of-the-world scenarios. Earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and pestilence have been some of the popular choices of these soothsayers; but there is one mega disaster that is a little more interesting – a polar shift. Before I go into what a polar [...]
Filed under: Crazy, Geology, Pseudoscience, Skepticism, science | Tagged: 2012, 21 December 2012, Atlantis, Charles Hapgood, Conspiracy Theories, Continental Drift, Doomsday, Earth-Crust Displacement, Einstein, Geology, Magnetic Polar Shift, Magnetic Reversals, Mayan Calendar, Nostradamus, Plate Tectonics, Polar shift, Pseudoscientists, science, The Earth’s Shifting Crust, Theory, Thermoremanent Magnetization | 2 Comments »
Posted on May 8, 2009 by The Skeptic Blacksheep
I’m going to be doing a series of posts on various end of the world predictions; many of which claim that the world will end in 2012. So, seeing as 2012 is not that far off, I thought that it would be a great topic to look into and to try and explain some of the [...]
Filed under: Crazy, Education, Pseudoscience, Religion, science | Tagged: 2012, 21 December 2012, Doomsday, End of the World, Mayan Calendar, Nostradamus, Oracle of Delphi, Polar Shift Hypothesis, Predictions, Prophesy, Pseudoscience, science, the bible | 9 Comments »
Posted on October 18, 2008 by The Skeptic Blacksheep
I’m not very good at economics or banking. Stockmarkets, shares and equities are as foreign to me as Greek, Russian or Mandarin Chinese. My idea of balancing a chequebook is being able to walk around a room without it falling off my head. In other words, I am a moron when it comes to monetary matters – but that doesn’t mean that [...]
Filed under: Crazy | Tagged: Bonus, CEO, customers, Debt, Eskom, Salaries, South African Airways, Telkom | 3 Comments »