BOONDOGGLE OF THE DECADE
From CBS News:
Odds are you’ve seen the TV commercial that repeats the phrase, ” ‘Head On,’ apply directly to the forehead” over and over. It touts the benefits of an over-the-counter product. The ads used to say rubbing it on your forehead would relieve headaches, but then the Better Business Bureau announced that,
The company failed to provide any reliable clinical testing to support its claims.”
The commercials no longer claim Head On works, but they’ve become something of a pop phenomenon.
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SONAR, CONFESSION, TO END LONG-STANDING LOCH NESS LEGEND?
Modified from skepdic.com:
The BBC claims it has proved that Nessie the plesiosaur (a marine reptile) does not exist. What they did was use satellite navigation technology to aim 600 separate sonar beams through Loch Ness to ensure that none of the loch was missed and found no trace of the monster. The research team hoped their instruments would pick up the air in Nessie’s lungs as it reflected a distorted signal back to the sonar sensors. The only signal they got was from their test buoy moored several meters below the surface.
“We went from shoreline to shoreline, top to bottom on this one, we have covered everything in this loch and we saw no signs of any large living animal in the loch,” said Ian Florence, one of the specialists who carried out the survey for the BBC.* The show, called Searching For The Loch Ness Monster, was made for BBC One.
A confession further damages monster hopefuls.
For that story, watch this National Geographic video.
Will this end the belief in Nessie? Don’t bet on it.
DOOMSDAY? 2012? Don’t bet on it….
Scores of prophets have predicted the end of the world or large-scale destruction. According to the Skeptic’s Dictionary, Jehovah’s Witnesses “have been wrong so many times that they’ve quit making specific predictions, but they’re still warning us that the end is near.” Among others who missed the mark were Jeanne Dixon, and John Gribbin and Stephen Plagemann. Obviously, the most important thing to remember when thinking critically about this is that
EVERY SINGLE DOOMSDAY PROPHECY–WHOSE PREDICTED DOOMSDAY HAS PASSED–HAS BEEN WRONG
Are you worried about December 21, 2012? I hope not….I recall a student in a nontraditional spring, 1999 college class where his final exam was to occur in January of 2000. During the first few days of class he mentioned there was no need to study for the final exam since Y2K was going to wreak such havoc on the world that going to college would be rendered meaningless. I tried to talk some sense into him and on the day before the last class I asked him once and for all, “are you going to study for the final exam?” He nervously replied, “uhh, I think I should.” Do you think he made the right decision?
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