Today, while at work, I was filming a site using a new high definition camcorder with face recognition technology. The camera is impressive, and usually good at picking up faces: front profiles, side profiles, on weird angles — it usually recognizes a face. So what interested me was when it started indicating that [...]

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CNN and CBS have recently presented another “hard-hitting” series of reports on pareidolia with its piece on Jesus found in the water stains of a weight-loss centre’s ceiling.  The patrons and staff alike confide that they’ve since watched their language, avoid lying, and generally act civil while face-to-ceiling with the water stain Jesus.

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Welcome!
Allow me to introduce myself. I’m Paul Rocca, the author of Lintbox, a website devoted to Scientific Skepticism. Be it ghosts or alien abductions, this site will be dedicated to weeding out the truth from what is otherwise nonsense. For more information on Lintbox and its goals, visit the about and authors [...]

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