In what is certifiably a rare occurrence, I’ve found myself reasonably impressed by the skepticism found in a special news article.  Specifically, by the piece 9/11 Conspiracy Files, which aired on CBC Newsworld this week.
The hour-long program focuses on perhaps the largest foundation of the 9/11 “Truthers’” conspiracy theory, the collapse of WTC7.  In it, [...]

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One of the hallmarks of good science is reproducibility. We know that theories are correct in large part because the results they predict are not only observed once, but observed repeatedly under similar circumstances by different people.
This is why this recent article from the BBC is so interesting. It isn’t the first time [...]

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This article was linked to on Digg recently, and there has been some misunderstanding of its content. It concerns a discovery of a new catalyst that could make it possible to use sunlight to directly split water into hydrogen and oxygen. This might turn out to be quite important in the future (if we start [...]

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It seems every other day that someone comes up with a way to extract useful chemical energy from water. The fact that it’s physically impossible is less important than the fact that one can always find gullible people to fork over large quantities of money for these so-called “inventions”.
But this guy is really taking it [...]

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Let’s talk about Orgone. A form of energy allegedly discovered by Wilhelm Reich, it has spawned an entire system of belief and generation of quackery. Due to the complex nature of this post, I’m going to break it down into topics. Let’s start with the basics:
What is Orgone?
From Wikipedia:
Orgone energy is a [...]

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Free energy (and its little brother, perpetual motion), is an idea that’s been around a long time, and has persisted despite the complete and utter failure of every single invention purported to generate energy “from nothing”. Why has it lasted so long? It seems that there are two reasons for this: the first is that [...]

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To say that claims of free-energy are frequent would be an understatement. It seems that nearly every week, be it on youtube, personal websites or news reports, someone, somewhere, somehow claims to have successfully challenged the very core of physics. None do. More often than not (roughly 9 out of every [...]

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In an article I stumbled across recently, I discovered that ’science’ has managed to show how god can exist, yet remain completely unobservable. Apparently this is tantamount to proving the existence of god. The only catch is that (as it turns out) god is invisible. This theory states that god [...]

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