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The Dark Ages are Alive and Well

Posted by skeptologic on May 9, 2008

Here’s another story that made me think that it has to be a joke. A substitute teacher was fired for doing a magic trick. He made a toothpick disappear in front of the class and was accused of “Wizardry.” Someone needs to inform the administrators at this school of two things. Number one: Magic is not real. I can’t believe we actually have to point this out to adults in this day and age. And the second thing they need to be informed of is that the inquisition ended centuries ago.

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How do you give a placebo to a city?

Posted by skeptologic on May 6, 2008

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, something else totally wacko shows up. I had to create a new category called “Weird Crap” just for stuff like this. Someone has decided to perform acupuncture on the city of Portland, Oregon. Check it out here. Acupuncture doesn’t really work on people, I don’t think it will work on a city either. After all, how are you supposed to give a city the placebo effect?!

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