-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000301c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Portal to notices, excuses, overflow, links: http://skepticon.pitas.com * No brains were improperly washed during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ AMA Health Warning: http://www.geek.net/~rhayden/warning.gif _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Superior crops or 'Frankenfood'? Americans begin to reconsider their blas� attitude toward genetically modified food. If genetic engineering portends a revolution in the way the world eats, Americans have not seemed to no- tice. Huh? http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/03/01/fp3s1-csm.shtml # Researchers urge bank of human tissue. Banks of frozen human tissue which might one day be cloned to make new organs should be set up, Britain's leading scientists will tell the government today. Making Soylent Green - see: http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,142097,00.html : Should/could/will you be cloned for immortality, medical/military/economic needs, entertainment, food, curiosity, enslavement/labor/abduction, testing? Have you been cloned lately? Would/should you have sex with your clone(s)?? # Oz Scientists Pledge: No Human Clones. Leading Australian scientists [both of them] pledged not to clone humans. But they were adamant that research into therapeutic cloning techniques should be allowed to continue because of the potential medical benefits. And they could change their minds if cash is offered: http://theage.com.au/news/20000302/A48997-2000Mar1.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Designing Online Communities - Is the web creating a digital version of the "lonely crowd?" http://www.feedmag.com/dialog/di295_master.html and www.feedmag.com/cgi-bin/loop/loop.cgi?function=areaview&document=di295.shtml # STUDY EXAGGERATES ADHD/BRAIN ABNORMALITY LINK - causes still unknown: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=28518 : Have you designed any abnormalities/individuals/communities lately? Do you prefer working with small/medium/large design parameters? D'ya leave pathol- ogies in your designs as "back-door" entry points? D'ya tweak your subjects? @ The Battle for Your Mind - Persuasion and Brainwashing Techniques Being Used on the Public Today: www.magnet.ch/serendipity/sutphen/brainwsh.html @ Propaganda & Mind Control. Please use caution while reading this. It may be triggering. http://members.aol.com/smartnews/page/Sample-Issue-30.htm @ Propaganda Techniques (pictures may be triggering - strap yourself down tightly) - http://carmen.artsci.washington.edu/propaganda/contents.htm : D'ya prefer to control minds via propaganda, hypnosis,implants, subliminal suggestion, microwaves, total cultural immersion, cultic abuse, sex, robots? @ Cult Info: http://members.aol.com/smartnews/page/Sample-Issue-29.htm @ Traumatic Abuse in Cults. This essay uses SYDA (Siddha Yoga) as an example of an abusive cult: http://hometown.aol.com/shawdan/essay.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 400,000 pilgrims in Arabia for hajj. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP)- More than 400,000 pilgrims have arrived in Saudi Arabia for the annual Muslim pilg- rimage; thousands more are arriving each day by land, sea and air. Nearly 2 million people are expected to perform the ritual this year. Camels run- ning scared: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564651265-eb2 # Iraqi pilgrims fly to Saudi Arabia- "Our arms are very tired, Insh'Allah!" See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564668530-cf8 # Pope seeks prayers for pilgrimage - cash contributions are welcomed too, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564665914-631 : Have you gone on any pilgrimages lately? D'ya pilgrimize for faith, poli- tics, economics, entertainment, education, a chance just to get away from it all? Will you be horribly punished if you stay home? Have you left already? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Christians Push to 'Hang Ten' (BaltSun) Hoping for an antidote to school violence & moral decay, a booming evangelical Xian lobby is campaigning to have the Ten Commandments displayed in classrooms and public buildings. And despite some protests, a rising number of lawmakers seem to be buying their argument. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150016261,00.html # School asked to show Wiccan paper. ALTOONA, Pa. (Reuters) � A Pennsylvania town that allowed the 10 Commandments in its public schools has been asked to display other documents, including a religious paper that some say emb- races witchcraft. www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,150016250,00.html : What's your favorite Decalogue version? Should all holy writings be posted in public schools/courts/halls? Is Xian magic witchcraft? Have you transub- stantiated lately? Do bread & wine become flesh & blood in your mouth? Yum? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ The Unsuspected Deadly Nature of Internal EM Pollution. Life's internal energy balance is of vital importance when we consider how the planet is being polluted. The most deadly pollution of this planet is the steady and increasing pollution of the internal"rivers of life" inside the biological potentials of the planet and all its living systems. We are slowly killing the living mechanism in and on this biosphere. Well, good riddance to bad rubbish: http://www.cseti.org/bearden/gravitobiology/p484950.htm @ Magnetic fields from steel-belted radial tires: Implications for epidemi- ology: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/65500812/START : Are your internal systems polluted/moderated/enhanced by electromagnetic fields [EMF]? D'ya avoid EMF whenever possible? D'ya live inside a Faraday Cage yet? Should everyone? D'ya put Faraday Cages around your trees? When? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Progress of Big Merger Examined - On Intergalactic Scale. (NASA) Galaxies in Collision: The Chandra XRay Observatory has captured images of a colos- sal cosmic "weather system" produced by the collision of 2 giant clusters of galaxies. Bang. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast01mar_1m.htm # TwistedTaleOfSunspots: www.spacescience.com/headlines/y2000/ast29feb_1.htm @ What is a Solar Flare? Magnetic energy accumulated in the solar atmosphere is suddenly loosed. Radiation is emitted across virtually the entire elec- tromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves at the long wavelength end, through optical emission to x-rays and gamma rays at the short wavelength end. The amount of energy released is the equivalent of millions of 100-megaton hy- drogen bombs exploding at once! http://hesperia.gsfc.nasa.gov/sftheory/ : What's your favorite cosmic catastrophe? D'ya prefer collisions/explosions /collapses? Do large releases of radiation excite/stimulate/craze you? D'ya go out of your way for'em? Have you bathed in alpha/beta/gamma rays lately? # A Monster in the Middle: The Chandra X-ray Observatory may have spied a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, but it's a fainter x-ray source than astronomers expected. 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