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Bill vs. Bill

Posted by Bill Simmon on Wed, Oct 14, 2009

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Watch this video, where former Republican Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist, totally schools talk show host, atheist and Richard Dawkins Award winner, Bill Maher, on the efficacy of flu vaccines. It turns out that despite being a famous non-theist, Maher is a true believer of wacky alternative medicine claims, including the anti-vaccination nonsense that’s been [...]

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Chasing Dust: A Memoir of a First-Year Paranormal Investigator – Part II

Posted by Chris Parizo on Sat, Aug 22, 2009

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I sat on the fencepost for over an hour, cursing aloud to the bull penned in the nearby fenceline and the faceless moon hanging above my head. It was a cold autumn Georgia evening, chill even to this New England ex-patriate. With each forced exhale my breath appeared in front of my face [...]

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On the Metaphysics of Teleportation

Posted by Bill Simmon on Fri, May 1, 2009

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This week’s episode of “Poli-Sci-Fi Radio” (a weekly politics and science fiction radio show and podcast that I do with Washington Monthly blogger, Steve Benen) featured a discussion inspired by last Friday’s episode of “Dollhouse,” in which a woman who was murdered is brought “back to life” in the body of Eliza Dushku because she’d [...]

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Seeking the Real

Posted by Wes Covey on Fri, Apr 3, 2009

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The belief is both ancient and cutting-edge: nothing material actually exists. Everything we can experience is an illusion, because it is a combination of parts, not actually a thing in of itself.

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Peculiar Planet Picayune

Posted by Undead Molly on Wed, Feb 25, 2009

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Interest in the occult always peaks when times are tough. If people are feeling perfectly content, secure, loved, happy and empowered in their lives they typically have no reason to look beyond that which is in front of their noses. However, it is when they are poor, desperate, disenfranchised, frightened and hopeless and feel they [...]

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