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The release of a 'new' report has conservative outlets claiming it supersedes 'previous' reports claiming ice loss in Antartica. Snow that began piling up 10,000 years ago in Antarctica is adding enough ice to offset the increased losses due to thinning glaciers, according to a NASA study. The...

Some good advice we should keep in mind. http://www.vox.com/2014/12/22/7433899/debunk-how-to Lewandowsky: The moment you get into situations that are emotionally charged, that are political, that are things that affect people’s fundamental beliefs — then you've got a serious problem. Because...

(thread split from https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-soul-leaving-body-photo-russian-scientist-konstantin-korotkov.2447/)

Almost definitely a reflection from the building below it - but why just that reflection, and how does it appear to move when the focus doesn't seem to be changing?

https://www.facebook.com/groundzeroradio/photos/a.495335482101.268879.373935332101/10152210116922102/?type=1&theater (1st august) This is what was seen today near I -205 in Gresham Oregon east of Portland.. I took this off 122nd That's what it looked like out side of my work in...

Obviously a very fringe idea, but any geologists want to make a debunk out of this one? Could be in the 'not even wrong' category. http://bioresonant.com/news.htm The real danger for our entire civilization comes not from slow climate changes, but from overheating the planetary interior. In...

http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/911-conspiracy-debate-part-iv/ Kind of a fail as a successful debate, but something that's interesting in a post-mortem/meta sense as an overview of abuse of logic and overuse of 'fallacy fallacies' on Fullerton's part. There's some nice analysis in...

Scientists at Facebook have published a paper showing that they manipulated the content seen by more than 600,000 users in an attempt to determine whether this would affect their emotional state. The paper, “Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks,” was...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions Makes for very interesting reading, but one wonders how easy it would be to create bunk with these. I think most people take a certain pleasure in having a factoid they can say about "actually, that's a common misconception, what really...

This extremely alarming paper http://arctic-news.blogspot.com.au/p/global-extinction-within-one-human.html This process of methane release will accelerate exponentially, release huge quantities of methane into the atmosphere and lead to the demise of all life on earth before the middle of this...

Is this credible science? Good if so. http://hopegirl2012.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/qeg-open-sourced/ CLICK HERE FOR QEG OPEN SOURCE DOCUMENTS An average modern household requires 5-10KW of power to operate. A conventional generator needs 15KW to produce 10KW of power. To produce these...

[Update: The plane only exists in the MapBox base layer, which dates from at least 2012 or earlier. It is not a current image, and hence does not show MH370 - See following posts for details] As a part of the crowd sourced initiative to find the missing plane, I was going through some of...

This is a little depressing and makes this site's purpose seem like a doomed enterprise. Two articles discussing the 'backfire effect' and 'motivated reasoning'. http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/03/brendan-nyhan-backfire-effects-facts ... presenting people with information confirming...

Good essay. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victor-stenger/the-myth-of-quantum-consc_b_788798.html Some excerpts... A new myth is burrowing its way into modern thinking. The notion is spreading that the principles embodied in quantum mechanics imply a central role for the human mind in...

Credit to ATS member waypastvne for the info contained in this post on the 'impossible plane' thread on ATS The first thing I try to do every morning when I wake up is ask God what it is He will have me do for him. I pray that I will be a light for others so that through me they can see that He...

This was being said to be Ison remnants, but (the ghost of) Ison's current position is at sunrise not sunset so I was dubious. Now theorised as rocket launch remains. This photograph posted on December 7, 2013 was initially thought to show a cloud of debris left behind by Comet ISON, as seen...

People in Australia are freaking out about the proposed trail of a GMO cholera vaccine, mainly due to misunderstanding the language used. http://www.ogtr.gov.au/internet/ogtr/publishing.nsf/Content/dir126appsumm-htm An application has been made under the Gene Technology Act 2000 (the Act) for...

This is just strange... 25th September 2013 By Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri Guest Writer for Wake Up World I am happy to report that in an unprecedented and generous gift to Gaia, our Mother Earth, international philanthropist Mr. A. Michael has donated funds to stop geo-engineering aerosols...

An article recently shared on facebook, Rape victim sentenced 200 lashes by Saudi court, usually with this image - resurrects a 6 year old case as new... http://www.examiner.com/article/victim-sentenced-200-lashes-by-saudi-court?cid=taboola_inbound September 24, 2013 "The victim's sentence...

This is (in my opinion*) obviously staged, but how do I find the original use of it? Scientist Photographs The Soul Leaving The Body 17:38 ADG UK 6 comments The timing of astral disembodiment in which the spirit leaves the body has been captured by Russian scientist Konstantin Korotkov, who...