Link to Our Reader Weekly Article, "Powerlines and Cancer Linked AGAIN"

Good Synopsis of the Plame Leak Case

Read about the most traitorous move by a White House ever. The author is a little smug and titles his piece "the Plame case ain't what you think," and then goes on to describe more or less what we think. There is some hair-splitting involved. But this is a nice overview of this huge developing scandal.

Dolphin Sleep Anomaly

Baby dolphins & orcas - and their mothers, who set the active pace - apparently do not sleep at all for a full month after birth, completely unaffected by the sorts of
stress this would cause any other mammal.

Cruise/Lauer spat highlights scientology beliefs

Tangentially interesting to the gonzo scientist because Scientology is of some interest: It's a cult/religion started by a science-fiction writer, and it has its share of roles to play in conspiracy-style rumors.

In this article Tom Cruise is seen to be very intelligently debating the overuse of psychiatric drugs, and mention is made of the dubious history/value of psychiatry as a science.

Now, we're no scientologists -- William S. Burroughs has some great material against them -- but the scientologists may in fact be full of shit and yet be right on in their critique of psychiatry.

Science of Vitamin C

Innaresting. Some mixed signals in here - and despite the scientific establishment's efforts to bring him down, we still give Linus Pauling a wide berth, cuz he's phat.

We're going to Mars, bitches

Link is to an article about a report that says Bush's space dreams are lacking in substance. Dave Chappelle said it first...

Powers conferred by lightning strikes

Cool subscription-only story up at newscientist.com right now about lightning-strike victims. Turns out it's very bad to be struck by lightning and it can give you things like severe chronic pain for the rest of your life etc etc. Remember that park ranger who got struck 7 times in 35 years wound up committing suicide, so it's obviously a trying experience. However some people manage to derive some kind of physiological powers from it all, which is what the following quote from the story is about. And this doesn't even mention some people's claims of ESP-related side-effects, which of course New Scientist wouldn't stoop to mention. At any rate this is deemed worthy of note, if not entirely anomalous.

At the conference last month, one woman recounted the time her daughter was struck by lightning. When she regained consciousness and was told that she'd been hit by lightning, she asked, "Do I have superpowers now?" While almost all people who survive lightning have more problems than powers, a handful report some unusual abilities. One woman has gained an acute sense of smell. Another claims to consistently erase the magnetic strip on hotel room keys and credit cards.

“Estimates of the average person's risk of being struck range from 1 in 5 million to 1 in 600,000.”As for Harold Deal, his lightning-induced lack of sensation came in handy when he virtually severed his finger with a snowblower - he didn't feel any pain at all and was able to go back to work the next day. And he is now almost impervious to cold. In winter, when blustery winds blow and everyone else grabs a jacket, Deal just wears a T-shirt. "It is kind of funny in a way," he recounts in a book published by the Lightning Strike and Electric Shock Survivors International group. "The folks in town call me weird Harold."

Cool example of pre-Columbian cultural diffusion: polynesia to California

Hawaiians taught some Native Californians how to make boats and the two cultures share the word for boat. Take that, anti-diffusionists!

Oh for pete's sake

Here we have an article about an experiment that apparently had no unexpected results, yet everybody is congratulating each other. Way to reinforce the paradigm, man! Nice going!

Big Bang Mutual Circle-Jerk Society

This article begins, "In yet another victory for the big bang..." and goes on to show scientists stroking each other's poles. What we wouldn't give to see equal attention given to ALL THE TIMES THE BIG BANG HAS GOTTEN STUFF WRONG. Don't hold your breath.

More evidence that mad cow disease goes undetected in the US

No one paying attention to this issue will be surprised by the info in the article (but boy will people who aren't paying attention be mad when their brains turn to swiss cheese, despite assurances from the the government, their legions of scientists for hire, and corporate lobbyists, who all share a revolving door between the industry and its regulating agencies).

Link to our Reader Weekly article "Peopling the Americas: the Alternative Timeline of Hugh Fox"

We just discovered the Reader Weekly has been updating its website, and so we are posting links to our recent articles there.

Link to our Reader Weekly article "Wierd Science Roundup"

Link to our Reader Weekly article "String Theory Sucks"

Prescribing heroin cuts costs and crime

Another story which is treated like news even though it has been known for years.

Weapons in Spaaaaaaaaaaaaace

No one but the mlitary wants them there, but people with guns get to do what they want.

Powerline/Cancer link shown AGAIN

More on Deep Throat

Link is to a page at dailykos.com. The comments at the bottom are interesting too, read those as well. Man, this guy probably sweated it for years, and now not only has he come to peace with it, thinking, "Screw those guys," (Haig, Buchanan, et al), but he's probably old and bored and wouldn't mind shaking things up for good or ill. Now we'll see if he goes on TV or anything, maybe an interview with Barbara Walters, who also interviewed Nixon...

Deep Throat Revealed At Last

Glad I lived to see this conspiratorial secret revealed. Sometimes wishes DO come true...