We'll rock this shit Carl Sagan-Styles.

When I was younger, I took most everything I was told from a semi-scientific stance as fact. I was fascinated by the show Unsolved Mysteries. Robert Stack would approach the camera with that stiff-faced, just-had-a-stroke look in his eyes and tell you, let YOU in on the secret that there was more going on in this world than the major media wanted you to know.

Aliens had visited our planet.

They had visited our planet and they were hijacking hillbillies and probing them anally. We had the evidence. But 60 minutes didn't want you to know about this shit. Instead they had Andy Rooney talk about how he doesn't like how magazines don't number all their pages.

Clearly, 60 minutes was covering up the anal-probing.


I had just assumed that when Unsolved Mysteries told me about these 'facts' that they were telling the truth. I didn't think you could lie about this stuff. I assumed that everything was properly researched.
I spent months staring up at the sky at night looking for flying saucers, looking for aliens. I, long before Fox Mulder, wanted to believe. But the shit simply wasn't there.




I read up on how killers bees were going to take over the Southern United States by 1980. They would then grow stronger and work their way up to Canada. No one was safe.

I read up on how evidence of Atlantis had been found. Massive stone columns picked up from the deepest trenches in the Atlantic ocean. Skeletons of ancient kings.... and GOLD.

I read up on how Paul McCartney, THE Paul McCartney had died in a car crash in 1966 and was replaced with a look alike. The evidence was all there. Haven't you ever taken a look at the cover of Abbey Road? Everyone knows Paul is left-handed!

I read up on how Nostradamus had predicted Hitler's rise to power, AIDS, the gulf war and how Y2K would kill us all.



At first I was kinda bummed when I discovered how none of this was real. It look the mystique out of the world, it made it less magical. I wanted to believe in these things not because they were true but because it would be pretty cool if they were. But then I discovered the majesty of the world as it actually is.
I mean, gravity. GRAVITY. Holy shit but gravity is nifty when you figure out how it works, why it does what it does and the affect it has on the Cosmos.
Stars. Massive, utterly beyond belief humungaozid balls of fire that are the source of all the energy and matter in the universe.
Or even think about electricity. Imagine what someone from 200 years ago might think about a freaking light switch.


The world far and well enough strange, mystifying and amazing without us having to make shit up, it's simply not necessary.

The point of this blog will be to look at some of the crazy shit out there that people actually believe is true. Conspiracy Theories, pseudo-science, astrology, cults and religion. Unlike many other skeptical blogs, I'll be avoiding (wherever possible) clogging up these essays with lots of facts and references to scientific material. Why? Because most of these things can be debunked without need for any of that. Most of it just needs to be looked at critically before its' shell of veracity falls away and the gooey (and perhaps chocolate-nugatty) interior of fallacy is exposed. What it comes down to is that 999 times out of 1000, shit is simple. Every added layer of complication makes the goofy assertion less and less likely.

We'll look at these things, we'll look at what people are postulating and ask "Really? That's your theory?" We'll rock this shit Carl Sagan-styles. 'Cept I'll be cursing more than him and saying "Billions" less.