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Witness the Birth of a Conspiracy Theory
Alright, I know I finished my last post saying how I wasn't going to talk about the killing of Osama Bin Laden. I mean, everyone's talking about it enough, aren't they?
A little too much, in fact. My Facebook news feed has been rammed with an Osama-rama all day long, and a few things that transpired there drove me back to the keyboard for some commentary. (Lucky you, right?) Immediately after the story hit I saw a lot of people simply updating their friends with the news that the boogeyman was dead, but it didn't take long before I noticed comments like the following.
Yes. It's Real.
I've received a lot of questions from people asking if Mars will, as has been said, appear as big as the Moon this week. I guess people have thought to ask me either because I'm very public with my interest in astronomy, or because I've been known to call out some things as bullshit from time to time. That's what us skeptics do, after all.
But not this time. Below you'll see a list of things that will stun and amaze you, and are all 100% real!!! Amazing!!! Stupendously fantastic!!!
Yes. On Friday, Mars will appear as large in the sky as does the Moon, even though there’s no physical mechanism by which this could ever happen, as even a 12 second effort on Google will tell you.
Secret Recording at a Meeting of the Illuminati
Previously I thought things like ESP, ghosts, homeopathy, 911 conspiracies and the like were a bunch of hogwash. But the good skeptic must adjust his opinion when new evidence presents itself, and it looks like that's what we have here. This recording was done in secret by Brian Dunning, a podcaster and educator best known from his critical thinking series entitled 'Skeptoid'. It seems to prove that the conspiracy theorists and medical quacks had it right all along. At this super-secret meeting of the Illuminati, Dunning shows that a new world order is being planned, and that nefarious forces are conspiring to hold back humanity. Truly shocking stuff.
It's my hope that Mr. Dunning doesn't mind me reposting his recording on my site, but I couldn't find another way to have the content playable on Posterous without doing it the way I did.
Just to be thorough, his website is found at skeptoid.com and is a great resource to help interpret this age of pseudoscience in which we live.
Well, I thought I could call it Pseusoscience... this secret tape proves me wrong. Time to buy some herbal supplements and wait for 2012 to come take me.
Anyway, here's the recording. Have a listen.
