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The following stories may or may not be hoaxes (with the exception of the last one, which is almost definitely a hoax), but they're worth mention in this series because they involve claims of time travel or time superimposition that are really freaking bizarre. Doing the Time Warp at Versailles In August 1901, two English... Continue Reading →
One of the biggest, spookiest boogeymen in the H1N1 vaccine hysteria is the use of squalene in oil-based vaccine adjuvants. What the paranoia-peddlers fail to mention is that oil-based adjuvants aren't used in human vaccines, as I explain in "Much Ado About Squalene" at Leaving Alex Jonestown. You might as well be worrying that your... Continue Reading →
Hoaxes from Space Part IIAbout ten years ago, a teenage Evangelical Christian boy I knew was talking about the space program when he suddenly burst out, "Why do rich people want to live on the moon, anyway? Don't they know it's going to turn to blood?"Though I didn't know it at the time, he was... Continue Reading →
By now, you've probably all heard the harrowing tale of "Balloon Boy", 6-year-old Falcon Heene of Colorado. Earlier this week, Richard and Mayumi Heene reported that their son had probably accidentally drifted away in the basket of an enormous helium balloon, shaped like a flying saucer, that Richard had constructed. Such contraptions are common in... Continue Reading →
If you're wondering why I bother with this blog and Leaving Alex Jonestown, it's because of people like the girl I'll call Susie. Susie is an 18-year-old waitress at a restaurant in a small Minnesota town, and last week she told my mother that there's no way she's going to get an H1N1 shot. After... Continue Reading →
Another delay, what a shock. We'll be back later in the week. Hans the Not-so-flying pig escaped quarantine and had to be chased down to Clearwater, Florida. I guess he likes to vacation there or something.
Ong's Hat As legend has it, Ong's Hat is an isolated ghost town in the New Jersey pine barrens, almost completely uninhabited since the 1930s. Now it consists of just a road, a few houses, and a cafe. The village was said to be a swinging place at one time, full of saloons and rowdy... Continue Reading →
A Photo of Jesus On May 2, 1972, the magazine La Domenica del Corriere (basically the Italian equivalent of Parade) published a picture of Jesus Christ (above, left). This wouldn't be a big deal, except the picture was supposedly a photo. And it had been taken by a living monk, Benedictine scholar Pellegrino Ernetti of... Continue Reading →
Gotta have his hustle tight.The Pimp Daddy of UfologyThis year marks the 30th anniversary of the first public appearance of Bob Lazar.If you're at all interested in UFOs, you've probably seen video clips of Lazar chatting calmly and matter-of-factly about his experiences with extraterrestrial spaceships warehoused in the Nevada desert. In his Dan Dreiberg glasses... Continue Reading →
1959: Jacqueline Gay Hart Jacqueline Gay Hart, known as Gay to her friends, was the lovely 21-year-old daughter of marketing wizard Ralph Hart, the president of Colgate Palmolive International. Ralph had scraped his way to the top from the humblest of beginnings - trapping muskrats in Alberta to support his widowed mother when he was just... Continue Reading →
Swallowing The Camel 