myth

Just saw this article that was linked to the Coast to Coast AM site. I apologize if it's already been brought up. http://www.dailygrail.com/features/the-myth-of-james-randis-million-dollar-challenge I'm curious to see what you will have to say about it. Nice to see the link to stopsylviabrown...

Would it be fair to say that's a correct assumption?

Hello my friends.. it's been a long time since I posted here, but today I heard some story, (even better a university homework) which sound like bogus to me... the task is to give a scientific explanation of this supposedly real phenomena: If a body dies under water, and get's trapped there...

Your thoughts, please...

I'm having a debate with Art Vandelay in this thread over in the Science forum. The OP takes Marilyn Vos Savant to task for declaring "the cost of a product has nothing to do with its selling price." I conceded that profit is dependent on cost but that the price is determined by market forces...

The Myth of Posse Comitatus In this article, from the Homeland Security Institute, a federally funded "Research and Development Center" (i.e. "think tank"), the author argues that the Posse Comitatus Act is more of a procedural formality than an actual impediment to the use of U.S. military...

Where did the myth of an eternal afterlife of pain originate?

Holding on to hopes of an America that will one day be free from reliance on oil from the Middle East and self-sufficient in its energy needs? Well, stop dreaming and wake up to reality, say top oil executives, who dismiss the idea of US energy independence as mere political fluff. Instead...

Time to bury another myth: Knives are as dangerous as guns. If you kill with a gun: You can do it from a distance. You don't leave DNA at the scene where the victim is. You don't have to be close, thereby endangering yourself: You can get caught, wounded, killed yourself. You can surprise the...

I just started reading "Perfectly Legal" by D. Johnston - "The IRS just today came out this morning with new statistical tables on income for the year 2001. And on the way over here, I was calculating, and the 6,800 American who make more than $10 million a year pay a smaller percentage of...

Understanding And Appreciation For The Santa Myth Internal Link: http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39076 I would like to say first of all that I appreciate what it is James is endeavouring to do. I am here to learn, not to criticise. I think that in order to find a...

Understanding And Appreciation For The Santa Myth Internal Link: http://www.randi.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39076 I would like to say first of all that I appreciate what it is James is endeavouring to do. I am here to learn, not to criticise. I think that in order to find a...

It is my contention that humanity accesses a multitude of emotional states, several of which are lofty enough to have been lumped under the rubric 'God'. These feelings are preconscious or unconscious and not in any way products of rational thought. They can be as elevating as ecstatic joy and...

I've been trying to figure this out lately. Religions have existed throughout history, of course, though we now can safely refer to them as myths. I've studied mythology and literature throughout high-school and college and continue to do so today because I find them fascinating. Look at the...

When studies came out in the late '90s talking about kids who had up to three hours of homework a night, with so many books to carry that they were injuring themselves, I was completely flabbergasted. I was going to high school at the time, and I was lucky to bring home more than a half an hour...

lets have an in depth discussion of the actual story so that we have a heads up on Michael Moore's propaganda-for-the-election reel.

Those like me went to one news source that was a little unusual from the rest during the Gulf War II. This was a news source that I, for one, had not heard of prior to GWII. al-Jazeera was a news station that provided a genuinely alternative news view: It's journalists weren't 'embedded' with...

Educate yourself: Link (warning: may be offensive to some viewers) For those who are wondering what the joke is, click here.

No, you don't get what I'm saying. I'll try to explain better here. EVERYONE'S WEALTH is dependant on society. From the poorest to the richest. This should be pretty easy to understand. There ARE NO self-made millionaires or self-made anythings. If you live in America and you make money...