Gwangi Valley - Lost Blog of the Gwangi

Where dinosaurs are extinct, crystals aren’t magic and the Earth is more than 6,000 years old.

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    Beware: Non-apologetic skepticism, science and rational thinking rules here.

    Do you believe the Loch Ness monster is real, that there may be a hidden valley full of living dinosaurs somewhere, that pads on your feet will draw out 'toxins' or that crystals will heal you? Well, if you do, no matter if you're a Raelian or a thalian or a Baptist... you're kind of an idiot. There? Does that set the tone of this blog well enough? The 21st century is no place for hoky ancient mysticism and old wives' tales. Grow up or grow extinct.

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Follow-Up on the Cracker

Thursday, July 24th, 2008
cults, pop culture, pseudoscience, quackery, skepticism, society, supernatural | No Comments »

Well, P. Z. Myers has ended his crackerfest — although, one assumes, the overly worked-up catholics who’ve been sending him nasty un-christian sounding messages will continue on.
I won’t spoil the plot for you by telling you exactly what he did with his Jesus-flavoured cracker. You really need to read his post. Indeed, you should read [...]

I couldn’t have said it better

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
cults, pop culture, quackery, skepticism, society | 1 Comment »

I may still write a piece on ‘Expelled’, the Ben Stein movie that has everyone talking… about what a steaming pile of crap ‘Expelled’, the Ben Stein movie, is. I want to discuss both it and ‘The Profit’, the movie Scientology managed to get, in America no less, in essence banned from release. Yes, my [...]

The Accidental Genius of Anonymous

Saturday, March 15th, 2008
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It’s an open secret that the Church of Scientology’s first defense against criticism is to attack the person criticizing and ignore the criticism (their now-dead leader L. Ron Hubbard told them to always attack, never defend). And usually this attack is aimed not at defusing the criticism, but at intimidating the criticizer so forcefully and [...]

And the gossip sites shall lead them

Saturday, February 9th, 2008
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It’s a rare thing for me to stand up and applaud gossip sites and magazines. But I do so today. I do so with a feeling of pride. Pride in a part of popular culture which has, let’s be honest, primarily been involved with dumbing us down, not standing us up.
Well, the ‘Tom Cruise [...]

Will Smith joins cult. Wild Wild West now 2nd worst thing he’s done.

Monday, January 14th, 2008
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I like Will Smith. I like Jason Lee. And I like Giovanni Rabisi and Beck, too. Too bad they’re all members of what is, apart from an ongoing game of semantics, one of the largest cults in America: Scientology. 
And in case you’re wondering, no. I don’t like Tom Cruise. He’s a bit of… how do you [...]