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Scientology has been trying for some time to get the city council of San Jacinto to allow them to close Gilman Springs Road, the main artery in front of Gold Base. Why? Simple. They don’t like protestors being able to get so close to Gold because they don’t want the inmates to hear their message.
Fortunately, [...]

If you’ve come here from It’s OK, John (http://itsokjohn.com), thanks for coming and thanks for reading the following. I hope you’ll take a moment to add your vote. - Ella Rache

Rumours have been surfacing that John Travolta is wrestling with the dichotomy of a faith that denies his son’s illness, stands behind the [non] treatment that may have contributed to the boy’s death and undoubtedly places blame with the father and son versus a reality that plainly says otherwise to all. Reports that he’s sleepless and driving alone around his private airport in the middle of the night have aroused a great sympathy for him and the pain he must be feeling. Myself included.

But even if he is conflicted and feels the urge to pull away from Scientology, Travolta very likely feels he has no choice but to remain in the organization. For, you see, like most cults Scientology immediately begins walling in its victims the moment they join…

I posted a short piece to everydayskeptics.com about a recent so-called miracle.

http://everydayskeptics.com/how-to-cultivate-a-miracle/

Preface: As often happens lately, it’s the podcasters at The Skeptics Guide to the Universe that get me off my butt and finally writing about something I’ve been meaning to get to. This entry is such a case. Their recent guest, Paul Offit, had a great Op-Ed piece in the NY Times regarding the controversial [...]

Stay your hand, my conservative peers, lest you pull what they used to call a ‘boner’ and, here in the future, we call a ‘fuck up’. A vote for your ‘maverick’ senator from Arizona is also a vote for his young Earth creationist running mate. A running mate who could very well end up in [...]

Something I hear far too often for my liking and which annoys me to no end is the blustery reply, “Well in the ’70s they thought there was global cooling, so nyah!” OK, I added the ‘nyah’. But you know the argument. It’s along the lines of ‘if scientists were wrong then, then you have [...]

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 [...]

P.Z Myers, a scientist, professor at UMN and noted stirrer-upper of shite with the religious right, is embroiled in a bit of a… difference of opinion with some very itchy Catholics. But let us talk about cows for a second. Sacred ones.
A sacred cow. I doubt anyone reading this has not heard the term. It’s [...]

It seems that John McCain is big on luck, chance and superstition. According to a story in the Washington Times, the senator carries 31 cents in ‘lucky change’ and won’t pick up a coin that’s tails up. And it seems to have infected his campaign staff as well.
I don’t know about you, but this both [...]

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 [...]