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Yefim Shubentsov — Yefim Shubentsov, also known as “The Mad Russian” claims that he can erase your addictions. He specifically attempts to cure smokers, alcoholics, drug addicts, and overeaters. Based in Boston and operating since about 1979, he claims to have “cured” 167,000 people. Many say he is a miracle worker and that […]

Yefim Shubentsov – The Mad Russian healer

This entry was posted in Skeptic news Skepticism society and tagged energy healing Yefim Shubentsov on November 21, 2018 by Dave

oceans — On the 31st October a paper was published in Nature that laid out the evidence for Earth’s oceans soaking up about 60% more heat that had been previously estimated. On 2nd Nov I wrote a posting that highlighted it. Since then there has been an update on all of this. […]

Correction: Ocean heat Buildup

This entry was posted in Climate Change environment news science study and tagged climate correction nature ocean heat oceans study on November 20, 2018 by Dave

weird religious news — A scan of this weeks’ weird religious news is stuff that will strike terror deeply into specific groups of people – namely satirists and comedians. The stuff the right-wing religious promote is so utterly absurd that any attempt to parody it is destined to either fail, or instead be embraced […]

Weird Religious News – Beyond Satire and Comedy

This entry was posted in religion weird and tagged religion weird weird religious news on November 18, 2018 by Dave

I briefly caught a BBC interview the other night. It involved an interview with a couple of MPs whose names are not well known, and even if I mentioned them you will forget after about 10 seconds. One was Tory and the other was a LibDem. What quite frankly astonished […]

EU Mythology

This entry was posted in Critical Thinking politics and tagged EU mythology propganda on November 17, 2018 by Dave

maddox — You might perhaps have never heard about the John Maddox Prize, and so you could naturally be inclined to think … “The What?”. This however is special. First, let’s very briefly do a bit of background on it. Sense about science is the British charity that funds and promotes the John Maddox […]

2018 John Maddox Prize – given for taking a bold scientific stance

This entry was posted in Award science and tagged 2018 John Maddox prize on November 16, 2018 by Dave

climate zones — When we think of the term “Global Warming” we often tend to think of it as a measurement of specific things. For example weather extremes such as an increase in the frequency or distribution of storms, or rising temperatures. Familiar as they all are, they are not the only metrics. […]

The Drama of the Changing Global Climate Zones

This entry was posted in Climate Change environment news science and tagged boundary climate climate zones on November 15, 2018 by Dave