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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
According to AVERT, the international AIDS charity, global estimates for 2007 showed that there were 33 Million people living with AIDS, that includes men, women, and children. There were 2.7 Million newly infected people in 2007. Other statistics on their website show that……
More than 25 million people have died of AIDS since 1981.
Africa has 11.6 [...]
Filed under: Religion, Stupidity | Tagged: Abstinence, Africa, AIDS, AVERT, Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, condoms, HIV, Manto, Pope Benedict XVI, Sex, South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, The Vatican, Treatment Action Campaign, Tshabalala-Msimang | 12 Comments »
I was really angry to hear about a Facebook group called “Ek Laaik Nie ‘n Houtkop Nie, So What”, on the news yesterday. For those of you who don’t understand Afrikaans, a direct translation would be ” I don’t like a woodhead, so what.” “Houtkop” is a derogatory term for black people. Apparently the group was [...]
Filed under: Stupidity | Tagged: ANCYL, Facebook, Julius Malema, Racism | 2 Comments »
