The Australian pseudohistorian Fredrick Toben has been sentenced to three months in prison for publishing anti-Semitic material on his website, the Adelaide Institute. According to the Daily Telegraph: Toben had been banned in 2002 from circulating anti-Semitic material on the website of the Adelaide Institute …
Take a look at these two statues, both from the ancient Olmec civilisation of Central America. One looks negroid, the other a bit Chinese. Plenty of other Olmec statues look as if they depict people from other parts of the world because these …
While apparently unwilling to resolve the situation in the manner the Vatican would like, Holocaust-denying Bishop Richard Williamson has told Germany’s Der Spiegel that he would correct himself if satisfied by the evidence, but stated that finding it will “take time”. No surprise then, …
As the row over the lifting of Holocaust-denying Bishop Richard Williamson’s excommunication escalates – with the Vatican now ordering him to completely recant his views if he wants to return to the Catholic church – one question must surely weigh heavily on our minds at …
Uh-huh. Charlie Brooker writes today about a new TV station crammed full of conspiracy theories, Edge Media TV, which broadcasts programmes with titles like Question Everything and Hidden Agenda, and a talkshow called Esoteria, which according to the host is “a SHOW, not a PROGRAMME …
An artist's impression of the Druid superclub Stonehenge may have originally been used as a venue for ancient ravers, according to new academic findings. Dr Rupert Till, a musicologist at Huddersfield University, argues that the acoustics of the Stone Circle would have made it an …
All is not roses in the world of Nostradamus “scholarship”. Writing on his blog, the President of the Nostradamus Society of America, Victor Baines, accuses Dr Michael Rathford, author of a new book entitled The Nostradamus Code: World War III 2009-2012, of being a charlatan. …
Kudos to the Scientific Red Cards project, a new registry that allows academics and researchers to look up and report instances of fraud in published scientific papers. From their website: According to a note in Nature, one in three scientists confesses to having misbehaved in …
Was the Holocaust inevitable? So asks Patrick Buchanan, unconsciously lending simple, eloquent expression to a theme that recurs throughout his historical articles: that the root causes for the Holocaust are somehow elusive. I will deal with Buchanan’s article in two segments. The first deals with …
One of the most amusing features of the so-called “9/11 Truth Movement” is a tragic, desperate search for evidence suggesting its theories are gaining mainstream support. “Troofers” believe that the 11 September 2001 terrorist atrocities in New York and Washington were an inside job, orchestrated by the …