Another Victory For Vaccines
Once again, fear-mongering by anti-vaccination liars has been proven untrue by a new study shows that, despite their evidence-free warnings, the HPV vaccine does not make teenage girls promiscuous.
Randi Remembers Johnny
Yesterday, in writing about my disgust with David Letterman for enabling nonsense by having TV psychic Theresa Caputo on his show, I mentioned that Johnny Carson never would have allowed her in his guest chair because he couldn’t stand con artists who prey on people as she does (and too many others do). As I […]
David Letterman, Enabler Of Nonsense
I’m very disappointed in David Letterman. Last night, after two segments with Stephen Colbert, Letterman’s next guest was Theresa Caputo, whose show “Long Island Medium” airs on TLC (which was originally known as The Learning Channel, but dropped Learning from its name as it devolved into The White Trash Reality Show Channel). Caputo is another […]
James Randi on Real People
I’ve mentioned before on this site the documentary in production about James Randi entitled “An Honest Liar.” The filmmakers have been interviewing Randi and lots of others, as well as digging up footage from his remarkable career. Here’s one clip they found from the NBC series “Real People” circa 1980, with Byron Allen, Skip Stephenson, […]
The Science of Weather
Sunday night between 10 and 11pm, three local TV meteorologists forecast that Monday would be “mostly cloudy, with some showers probable in the evening.” Based on those scientific predictions, and since we’ve been rather dry lately, and because I’m still trying to get our lawn to recover from its bake-until-brown summer by watering it daily, […]
Million Dollar Challenge
For years, James Randi has offered a large cash prize to anyone who can prove psychic or paranormal ability. Naturally, the well-known con artists who make their living via these claims will never step forward to be tested, because they know they’ll fail and be exposed. However, there is still a large number of people […]