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Skeptic Mocks NASA Researcher With 'Flying Pig Award' for Finding Life on Meteorites

When NASA astrobiologist Richard Hoover announced, again, last month that he'd found evidence of microscopic life on meteorites, he probably didn't expect to receive the high honor of a Flying Pig Award. But now, the man who some claim is the scientific equivalent of the boy who cried wolf, is getting honored for an...

Brit Arrested for Selling 'Useless' Bomb Detectors

LONDON (Jan. 25) – The boss of a British company that sold $85 million worth of "totally ineffective" explosives-detecting equipment to Iraq was arrested this weekend on fraud charges, and exports of his company's devices to Iraq and Afghanistan have been banned. Some campaigners have questioned why action was not...

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05/07/12 The James Randi Educational Foundation Gives Teachers... Source: Geek Dad New York City was recently the host to the North East Conference on Science and Skepticism, or NECSS which is pronounced "nexus."

Background on james randi

James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928) is a Canadian-American stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience.

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