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CSI means Committee for Sceptical Inquiry. Their mission is to analyze popular prejudices or paranormal claims in a scientific manner. These findings are published in “The Sceptical Inquirer”, a bimonthly journal. Some recent topics include global warming, vaccines, UFOs or cinema fiction. You can read most of the articles online, but there is no RSS feed. (If I do something more than 5 times, I automate it.)

I tried to extract the relevant content Dapper, a service that lets you create a feed from almost any website. Here is the feed for “The Sceptical Inquirer”: http://www.dapper.net/services/sceptical_inquirer

Works like a charm, with one entry per article. It would just be nice to get rid of the “Buy Back issue” entries. Enjoy.

Welt der Wunder (world of wonders), a German science show invited James Randi, a famous magician and sceptic. He promises to pay anyone, who can demonstrate a paranormal phenomenom US$ 1million. They demonstrate all kind of pseudo-science bullshit and how it works. Recommendable.

Part two, three, four, five

Picture credit: http://www.ohlson.se/utstallningar_ecce.htm

Blasphemy is just a fancy word for making fun of religions. I believe, it’s a fundamental part of Western culture to make fun of almost anything. Be it politicians, kings, big noses, wheelchair-drivers, the pope, Jesus, celebrities or whatever. Fun is one method to handle the misery, life sometimes brings with it. Religion and the belief in a better afterlife is another. It was Umberto Eco, who fist made this point in “The Name of the Rose”. Obviously there a people, who can’t take a good job. Muslims as much as Catholics. There is even a petition to taking a perfectly serious picture of the prophet mohammed from wikipedia. I mean that’s just pathetic. If you don’t like wikipedia, just don’t visit the site. I don’t like state television either. I don’t write letters to those people. If enough people do the same thing, it will eventually fade away and die. Not so religious people. The have a strong urge to control everything. Just like a virus. Can you believe to bother just a minute of your life, because an invisible man in the sky doesn’t want you to have pictures of him. Haha. No way.

The Faith Central from The Times has compiled a Blasphemy Collection, featuring the top 20 acts of blasphemy of the last years. Complete with religious, political, vulgarity and criminal impact. Including number of deaths. Pretty scary, how the religious are trying to disturb and censor our cultural life.

So be careful and watch out for Blasphemy!

Note of the author:
I tried to find the movie featured in #10, but couldn’t find it. If you’ve got a hot tip, please let me know.