Baloney Detection Kit

In his book, “The Demon-Haunted World”, Carl Sagan provides tools for skeptical thinking. This excellent list is a strong tool to weed out the bad seeds in science. Quoting ad verbatim: Tools Wherever possible there must be independent confirmation of the...

…and the celebrity was…

by Claus Larsen Jeffrey Dahmer Serial killer, necrophiliac, cannibal and psychopath From 1978 to 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer killed 19 men. He had sex with the corpses, kept body parts as souvenirs, ate other parts of the bodies, and kept a detailed photo-diary of his...

John Hogue: Really bad prophet

by Claus Larsen John Hogue is a self-anointed prophet, born in 1955 in Hollywood, CA. He has a high-school degree, but claims to have read enough of his own to “become a Rhodes Scholar”. He, of course, could not be bothered with the dumbing-down process of...

Dowsing in Sweden, 1914

by Professor Svante Arrhenius Svante Arrhenius This article was the second and final one that Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, 1859-1927, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1903, published in the newspaper “Stockholms Dagblad” 1914. The...