-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 991206c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No dung was hurled at politicos during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Musurgia Universalis: http://www.mjt.org/exhibits/bellwheel.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Iceland's gene pool makes waves. (AP) Within weeks an Icelandic firm plans to begin collecting DNA samples from Iceland's 270,000 citizens, linking genetic profiles with their health records & family trees. The database it plans to build offers an unprecedented chance to discover genetic links to disease - and an unprecedented danger to privacy, doctors and researchers warned: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562441856-56e : Have you bought/sold/brokered any genetic info lately? Do you endanger my privacy? Is it fun? Is genetic info secret, or should the whole world know? # PATIENT'S DEATH BLAMED ON GENE THERAPY: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=22954 # FEDERAL AGENCY PROPOSES GUIDELINES FOR STEM CELL RESEARCH http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=22973 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # CityLink crash probe takes mystical path. NEW Age mysticism and paranormal beliefs were possible motives for the death of a young motorist in the CityLink tunnel. The frustrating investigation has seen police delve into New Age bible The Celestine Prophecy, telepathy & extra-sensory perception in a bid to understand why he drove at breakneck speed thru the unopened tunnel. http://news.com.au/news_content/state_content/4154222.htm : Have you suicided for mystical reasons lately? Was it fun, fast, furious? # Trouble With Reporting Abductions: http://www.caus.org/mc120399.htm @ HYPERDIMENSIONAL UFOS: http://www.gaynor.co.uk/reports/ufo/ufo13.htm # UFOS Cause Physical Effects - sightings: http://caus.org/mu120499.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # A new history of how a humane idea was put into brutal practice has provoked angry debate. It's The Black Book of Communism - is it right? http://www.thenewrepublic.com/magazines/tnr/122099/scammell122099.html http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/18/dec99/hilton.htm @ In an alternate reality, the U.S. was invaded by 400 ton armored Soviet hovercrafts <http://aeroweb.lucia.it/~agretch/RAFAQ/WIG.html> that can go 340 miles an hour, hold a crew of 400 and travel 3000 miles on a tank of gas. It was a bad day. And see http://memepool.com/Subject/Warfare/ : Would you rather be exploited/suppressed/invaded/manipulated/intimidated by communists or capitalists, by atheists or xians or muslims or hindus ?? # Technical geniuses of IIT: Nehru's brainchild has created a brain-drain in India, and the winner, as usual, is Silicon Valley. Greedy gringos: http://www.salon1999.com/books/it/1999/12/06/indian/print.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Mars-Or-Bust: # Hope Fades for Mars Mission. (Reuters) Scientists begin to fear that the Mars Polar Lander may not have survived the crashlanding. Outsiders blame NASA's "better, cheaper, faster" space program. Or Reptilioids, the KGB, or MicroSoft: http://wired.lycos.com/news/reuters/0,1349,32890,00.html # NASA OFFERS LITTLE HOPE FOR WAYWARD MARS PROBE - 'The final silver bullets': http://www.cnn.com/1999/TECH/space/12/06/mars.lander.03/ And: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_552000/552230.stm # Also: Mars: Mission impossible? Maybe we're not meant to leave Earth: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_552000/552574.stm # Space Missions - Is space exploration a waste of money? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking_point/newsid_552000/552655.stm : Have we wasted enough money on Mars? Would you rather waste money on wars, videogames, sex, drugs, bribes, pollution? Where do you like to waste money? # No word from Mars lander for 3rd day - dead dead dead: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562445544-09f # Also: Thousands wait for signal from Mars, drink too much coffee: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562416421-cef # Also: Facts about lander - everything you don't know already: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562399483-31f # And: List of previous Mars missions, most of which have failed: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562396402-77f # Future Mars missions face scrutiny - "faster, cheaper, better" sucks: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562437887-b62 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ring cycle: now you can control your machine from the office - Talking to the washing. (Times) A washing machine that can communicate with the internet using its own built-in mobile phone has been launched by Ariston. The margherita2000.com washing machine will be able to send breakdown reports for repair and download new washing cycles from its own web site. And the householder will be able to control the washing cycle remotely using a mobile phone or by logging on to the machine's own web site. http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/12/06/timintint02003.html?999 : Would you mind if your appliances gossiped about you on the Net? Will y'r washing machine tell the world you wear black lace lingerie and a duck suit? Will you resent your fridge being smarter than you, with a better web site? # Thinking machines - Artificial intelligence isn't science fiction anymore: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,145007570,00.html? # IBM plans supercomputer that works at speed of life - simulating biology: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:COMP11/1:COMP11120699.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Dung hurled at NYC mayor's portrait. (AP) New Yorkers angry at Mayor Rudi Guiliani for his crackdown on street people and efforts to punish an art museum for a controversial display hurled dung at the mayor's portrait in a carnival-like protest. Organizers said it was elephant dung - bullshit unavailable? http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562421979-b1e : What's your favorite dung? At which politicos should it be hurled? Have you hurled any dung lately? At whom? Did voices in your head tell you to? # Another school shooting, this time in Oklahoma - mindcontrol working over- time: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19991206/ts/school_shooting_4.html # Dalai Lama visits South Africa - peace breaks out all over the world: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562442380-5f3 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "If it wasn't for bad genes, I wouldn't have no genes at all." * Rev. 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