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Christopher Hitchens has cancer, and some Christians have the nerve to say that this is actually good news.
On this Father's Day, Skeptical Monkey would like to honor one very important skeptic...
After all her hemming and hawing over MMR vaccines, some folks are wondering if Jenny McCarthy's young son ever had autism is the first place.
An Australian psychic told a woman that her photograph contains evidence of--not one, but two!--ghosts. Guess he found out too late that the picture was a hoax.
The New Orleans Saints, along with athletes all over the world, are quick to thank god when things go their way. But does god really care who wins a football game?
The Lancet medical journal published a study in 1998 suggesting the link between autism and the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine. Now, they've issued a full retraction of the original paper.
In response to the oft-posted predictions of "psychics" at the start of each new year, we at Skeptical Monkey decided to make a few predictions of our own.
Halloween began thousand of years ago, when the ancient Celts lit bonfires to celebrate Samhain. What exactly did these people believe?
Psychic twins, Linda and Terry Jamison, claim to have predicted 9/11. Forget the shoddy evidence for a moment and ask yourself: are these woman really behaving like they had prior knowledge of a national tragedy?
With gay marriage out of the way, are there now other threats against traditional marriage that must be addressed. John Marcotte wants to ban divorce in California, but is that fair? And is there any way a ban on divorce would actually pass?
Psychic twins claim to have predicted 9/11... but their predictions are vague and the evidence is scarce. The only evidence we found was a radio show on YouTube where they claimed the US government and WTC would be attacked. Everything else was said after the fact.
One Pastor in Arizona says that killing the president, abortion doctors, and gays is inline with his interpretation of the Bible. But how do people know if his interpretation is the right one?
Christians claim that Jesus is like a judge sentencing you and then paying your fine. But take a look at this new analogy.
When celebrities die, self-proclaimed psychics and mediums tend to come out of the woodwork with claims of predictions and/or messages from beyond the grave. When Heath Ledger passed away in 2008, for example, James Van Praagh wasted no time announcing on public television that he’d received a "visit" from the late actor.
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Scientists can be wrong. For years, many have hypothesized that the first animals evolved in the sea. Now, new scientific findings may suggest otherwise.
According to this article:
…researchers studying ancient rock samples in South China have found that the first animal fossils are preserved in ancient lake deposits, not in marine sediments as commonly assumed.
These [...]
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