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One of my favorite scenes in the recently popular Netflix movie, K-Pop Demon Hunters involves a holistic "doctor" named Dr. Han. He seems to use a mixture of cold and hot reading techniques (since his patients are celebrities, after all), to sell "tonics" to one of them. Then (only a minor...

American Airlines claimed a child was at fault for being secretly recorded in a restroom. It’s now changing its response https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/22/travel/american-airlines-child-restroom-recording-lawsuit/index.html Who was in charge of American Airlines that day? Ted Cruz? Ranb

This thread is for the discussion by the students in the Skeptikids Club (who will be posting their OP shortly). They are posting here to get advice on paranormal subjects they are studying as a group of young skeptics. They will only be posting at JREF under supervision and in moderated...

Children taken from single parents in uniform when they are mobilized The problem is that the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act doesn't apply to child custody cases, because the courts are there to protect the child's interests. And in some cases, it may very well be in the best interests of...

As I was riding my exercise bike this morning, I was flipping through channels on TV. I came across "Leave It to Beaver" on TVLand. In this episode, the students in Beaver's 5th grade class have to make and bring in something representative of the Revolutionary War. Beaver paints a poster of...

Seeing I know from personal experience, how bad a good missionary group can become once they lose their fear of God and foundation principles of respect and equality. Let's blast them and rip them apart for their cult dogma and mind control that make their members groupies and dependant on group...

In the (U.S.) city where I live, D.A.R.E. volunteers are setting up booths on sidewalks to distribute literature and collect donations. When a volunteer came up to me hawking the program, I replied that there were several studies that showed that their program had a very low success rate. He...

First, some background -- Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka were a married couple who in the early 1990s kidnapped, raped, and brutally killed two teenage girls, videotaping the process as they tortured and slowly killed the girls over an extended period of time. It is one of the most brutal and...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH-wRGKyd40&mode=related&search= "When Dork thinks about you he touches himself" in the library! yeesh think of the children think of the children lololol I understand how yakkity this is, but to appeal to us by FIRST showing some little kid pathetic

I rather imagine this conversation happening between Sylvia Browne and her son. I gather she is training him to "take over" after she passes on. Since she knows she is a fake (this is my opinion only, so don't sue me) she knows she won't be able to help him out with advice after she is dead...

So what is it about the Ozarks?

I read a story about a sex offender who attempted to kidnap an 8-year-old girl while she and her family were shopping at Wal-Mart in Waterville, Maine. This happens every day but it's not such a common occurrence in rural Maine. It serves as a reminder that our children should never be out of...

long long time ago a christian Pastor pointed out to me that there were God's children and Humans on earth. And maybe there still are two distict species on earth. He even found me the part in the Bible which says there were humans on earth who were not of decendents of Adam and Eve. I do not...

One politican in Iowa has way too much time on her hands... pardon the pun. I suppose I'm the only person here who finds this sort of legislation is mind numbling stupid. Face it folks, teenagers are going to masturbate. Why should it make any difference if they're using "any...

I recently sent this e-mail to Randi, and I'm curious what everyone else thinks. _______________________ I don't know if you've addressed this in a commentary yet, but maybe one day you could. As a parent who is a skeptic and atheist, how would you handle teaching your children? Should you...

EEK! These buggers are so cool!

U.S. Says Pope Can't Be Sued No surprise here. It's like deja vu all over again. But what kind of rat-ass "country" is the Vatican anyway? It only exists to protect the interests of the Catholic Church. If I was President, I'd invade it on grounds of Terrorism, the systematic rape and...

The statistics in this study are very alarming if they are accurate. I'm surprised that parents would even admit that they had loaded guns in the house for fear that someone would contact Child Protective Services. Are the participants in the survey just being cynical that these people would...

Ok, so politicians are screaming about the latest Grand Theft Auto game due to some semi porn content (like one can see on TV) being unlocked by hackers. Hillary, the dumb *%^)$ Clinton is up in arms about it (she will take on anything for publicity these days it would seem). However, what I...

Chernobyl-damaged kids supposedly healthier, smarter. COOL! Real X-Men! Maybe this will lead to a race of superhumans.

Tell us how better to brainwash your kids From: "Surveys" [email protected] Date: May 25, 2005 Subject: Scientology Parents Survey Reply-To: [email protected] Dear xxxxx, If you are the parent of a child/children between the ages of 5 and 19, please answer the below survey...

I have a couple of questions about mental illness in families: What's the data on parenting by mentally ill parents? What kinds of effects are there on children? If a mother or father is diagnosed with a mental illness, should the children be taken away and put into foster homes? Why or why...

You guys were so helpful to me with my Adobe problem (very fixed, works great) I thought I'd pose yet another question. I have a home network with broadband. I have the serving computer in my home office and each of my kids have their own computer, networked through mine, in their rooms. The...

Request For Sources: Development Of Ontological Concepts In Very Small Children I've been using Piaget as a source, but of course he may need updating. His experiments cover the whole range of what I need to know, but I'm aware that there have been various quarrels about method, interpretation...

I just wondered how the rest of you Sceptics dealt with the subject of death with your children/grandchildren. My girls (Five years old) go to a Church Of England School. They come home and tal about God/Jesus. I say talk, probably more sing, they sing me their hymns they are learning. Already...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4025293.stm A rather cruel trick, even for 14 year-olds. The intended lesson is valid, but you'd think it could have been easily made without the doomsday notice. I'm curious if there were skeptical students? When I was that age, a priest in my...

ROCHESTER, New Hampshire (AP) -- A woman and her boyfriend are accused of plotting to sacrifice the woman's three children on a church altar. Nicole Mancini, 29, and John Thurber, 35, were arrested at St. Mary's Church on Wednesday after workers said they heard the woman say she wanted to...

I thought I'd beat 1inTroll to the punchline. From http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1152.cfm Sorry man, but we've got to stone the little buggars. Nothin' personal, k? :D

... become brain damaged adults (who, incidentally, vote). I have a theory-in-process that by force feeding children The Big Lie -- literal beliefs in preposterous religious texts -- that a form of brain damage occurs. And that when a child's mind is warped this badly, that he/she is from then...

Rape and Russian Policy in Chechnya The case of Elsa Kungaeva is now quite well known. This is not because there was anything unusual in a Chechen woman being raped and murdered by a member of the Russian armed forces - a fairly commonplace, quotidian sort of event. What was unusual was that...