Bizarro!

This page of links is a kind of adjunct to my Skepticism links page. These are serious pages by seriously eccentric people whose grasp of reality doesn't seem that great. I'll update this page regularly as I surftravel; new links will appear and old ones disappear, so visit regularly.

14 July, 1998
There is a fun, nay, hilarious, review of the science in Armageddon, the movie, on the Bad Astronomy site.   The Bad Astronomer starts the review like this:

Armageddon got some astronomy right. For example, there is an asteroid in the movie, and asteroids do indeed exist. And then there was... um... well, you know... um. Okay, so that was about all they got right.

Read it and laugh. I admit to not having seen the film yet, but having read about the scientific tosh in it, maybe I won't.

1 July, 1998
I must have done something wrong recently: I've started getting spam on one of my accounts. Normally, I junk the messages, but this morning's example made be laugh with disbelief. It's the classic spam, selling a dubious product. Furthermore, it has the ultimate "the establishment are trying to suppress this product" hook. Paranoia rules. It also seems that, given the number of quotes from the Bible, it probably doesn't work for atheists. Read it first, and then read the medical viewpoint.

The answer to cancer has been known

The answer to cancer has been know [sic] for years and those that eat apricot seeds will never develop cancer. You can see for yourself by ordering your copy of the book or video by Edward Griffin "World Without Cancer" now. After reading the book or watching the video you have any doubts [sic], we will return your money . We have been in business for six years and are listed with the Better Business [sic] in N.Y.C., in case you have any reservations about order [sic] through the internet. We also have the actual Laetrile and the apricot seeds. For prices and ordering information go to the following web site.
www.canceranswer.com

If you would like to read a chapter or two of the book you may go to the following web site.
WWW.LAETRILE.NET

These web sites offer a ton of free information, the addresses and phone #'s of over 200 people who have had every different type of cancer. (breast, skin, brain, colon, cervical, ovarian, leukemia, hotchkins [sic], prostate, pancreas, liver and more.) No matter how hard you think this is to believe, it's true and this information is only available on the internet.

As Hosea says "my people perish for lack of knowlege [sic]" so get researching and never worry about cancer again. Please don't say ' if this were true than [sic] why isn't it on T.V. " or "why don't the doctors know about it." It was known but through powerful influences the truth has been kept from the general public. Remember, as Proverbs says, with knowledge there is long life. Knowledge about your desease [sic] is not just going to some prestigeous [sic] doctor and letting him administer chemo. That's foolishness. Seek and ye shall find.

As Genesis 1:29 says...seeds are supposed to be for food. The simple things from nature will bring down the wise and confound them.

This week, 6/24/98, we witnessed colon cancer shrink in two weeks, complete skin cancer shrinkage, brain tumor shrinkage liver cancer shrinkage and a few more. The stories of the people that have just achieved this success are at the above web site, along with ways you can contact them this week for proof.

Well, I did a bit of research on the QuackWatch page and found this:

"In response to political pressure, a clinical trial was begun in 1982 by the Mayo Clinic and three other U.S. cancer centers under NCI sponsorship. Laetrile [the 'chemical' in apricot seeds] and "metabolic therapy" were administered as recommended by their promoters. The patients had advanced cancer for which no proven treatment was known. Of 178 patients, not one was cured or stabilized, and none had any lessening of any cancer-related symptoms. The median survival rate was about five months from the start of therapy. In those still alive after seven months, tumor size had increased. Several patients experienced symptoms of cyanide toxicity or had blood levels of cyanide approaching the lethal range."

You can read the entire thing for yourself by jumping to the Questionable Cancer Therapies page on QuackWatch and searching for the word Laetrile.

21 May, 1998
Why must I always be eating when I come across sites that has quotes like this:

"only flesh eaters crave liquor" (So, that's the reason!)

" both our mental and physical condition is influenced by planetary rays which change as the planets move" (One presumes that the planet Earth doesn't emit plantery rays, otherwise the other planet's rays would be swamped by them.)

"There are seven spheres, the planets of our solar system. Each has its own keynote and emits a sound varying from that of every other planet." (Er, sorry Pluto you don't count, and again Earth is not counted.)

"The white light of the Sun contains the seven colors of the spectrum. The occultist sees even twelve colors, there being five between red and violet--going one way around the circle--in addition to the red, orange, yellow, green, etc., of the visible spectrum. Four of these colors are quite indescribable, but the fifth--the middle one of the five--is similar to the tint of a new-blown peach blossom."  (Actually, white light contains an infinity of colors, we choose to see only seven, and indeed the difference between indigo and violet is so subjective that some people only refer to six.)

OK, enough. Your turn to read it. I can only take so much.

9 April, 1998
This one had me choking on my Big Bacon Classic. On the 6th April 1998, NASA released some photos of the Cydonia region of Mars taken from the Mars Global Surveyor. Wozzat then, you might say. Well, 20 years ago NASA released a very famous photo of what looked to be a human face on Mars, taken from Viking:

face-on-mars.jpg (8472 bytes)

The photographs released by NASA on 6th April were higher resolution:

So? It looks like a bunch of hills/mountains, right? Nothing fantastical about it anymore, right?

Well, wrong. Martin Keitel agrees it's not a face, agrees that NASA is not faking the pictures, agrees it's a mountainous region, but disagrees that it's of natural origin. Aliens built it: check his proof for yourself.

 

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