Last week, Newt Gingrich stirred up some controversy when he said that, as president, he would okay plans for NASA to go back to the moon and build a base there. Today on KTRS/St. Louis, I asked astronomer Phil Plait whether the concept was practical, from whether we can afford it to what it would […]
Newt Gingrich was mocked this week for saying, as president, “…by the end of my second term we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American.” Forget the fact that we have an international treaty prohibiting any nation from declaring the moon “ours.” What about the whole moon base […]
Adam Savage of “Mythbusters” spoke at The Amazing Meeting in 2009 about learning from your mistakes… For more skeptical videos from The Amazing Meetings, check the James Randi Educational Foundation’s YouTube Channel
FDR’s famous quote, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” is still true in America — and perhaps more so. We have become a nation of fear-mongers, trained by politicians, media, and authority figures to worry about bad things happening to us and particularly our children. Unfortunately, the things that we’re supposed […]
The James Randi Educational Foundation is getting a little bolder with its Million Dollar Challenge (prove you have paranormal abilities, win the money) by targeting some of the bigger-name frauds. Several weeks ago, the JREF issued a direct challenge to James Van Praagh to prove that he converses with dead people — talking to them […]
A car dealer in St. Louis is advertising that, if you buy a Chevy Cruze from him, he’ll give you a $300 gas card. In the commercial he claims, “that’s a free tank of gas every month for a year!” While the Cruze is a fuel-efficient vehicle (its Eco model supposedly gets 42mpg), the math […]