Organic food: It’s supposed to be a whole different way of growing food to make it a lot better for you, but really it’s just a set of restrictions which limit growers to using fertilizers and insect control methods that are deemed as somehow being “natural.” Of course, the food is basically the same, other […]
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And yet another foodborne illness outbreak
It seems that there has been yet another outbreak of foodborne illness outbreak has happened, this time it’s linked to alfalfa sprouts. The pathogen responsible is all natural salmonella bacteria. Via CNN: Salmonella outbreak in 10 states prompts sprouts recall Federal public health officials are investigating a salmonella outbreak that has infected 22 people in […]
Australia Investigates 2005 Death of Penelope Dingle
A story out of Australia that is both tragic and revealing has recently been making the rounds in the media, involving the death of Penelope Dingle, a woman who died of cancer in 2005. Penelope had been married to Dr. Peter Dingle, a small time celebrity in Western Australia. Peter Dingle is an Australian media personality […]
Even dumber than EVP
EVP or “electronic voice phenomena” is what people like to call it when they take a cheap tape recorder or a computer with a sound card and crank the volume way up until they start to hear a lot of noise. This noise is a combination of internally generated noise, RF interference, cross talk from […]
Q & A About Lee Harvey Oswald’s Guilt
Recently someone sent me an email asking me “Do you really believe Oswald killed Kennedy?” This is probably due to the recent post I made about the assassination. I have to admit that I’m not really an expert on the topic, but I have always been fascinated by it, especially in the context of how the […]
Nuclear Energy – This is what we’re up against…
Well, “Rick” let me first assure you that there’s no reason to worry about the nuclear plant at Chalk River, because there is no such plant. There is a research and isotope production reactor there, however. You know why it was allowed to run without the mandated triple-redundant cooling system? Because the reactor is quite […]