Ramblings of an Armchair Skeptic

This is what I imagine pitchfork wielding farmers are yelling into the sky after waking to find that their wheat fields have been vandalized by unearthly visitors. Crop circles first began appearing in the media in the mid 1970's when crude circles were found in farmer's fields in Southern England. These circles were a mystery until Doug Bower and Dave Chorley admitted to making the circles as a hoax. Since then, circles and other increasingly complex designs have been mysteriously forming all over the world. But is it so mysterious? There are those that study this phenomena and claim that the circles are being made by aliens wishing to send us messages. These people are called "cereologists” (after Ceres, the Roman goddess of vegetation). They have yet to provide any credible evidence for their claims. It's pretty self evident though that crop circles are man-made. Joe Nickell has done extensive studies and had the brilliant idea of creating a timeline and graph of al...

Look out! Modern medicine is trying to kill you. That's right. Every nurse, doctor and scientist is out for nothing but your blood and money. You'd best not catch a cough because I've heard that Nyquil is laced with toxins that enables the government to plant suggestions in your mind while you sleep. Big pharma is evil and is busy with over medicating the earth's inhabitants so they can keep making billions of dollars. So what's an uneducated public to do? It's okay. Don't panic. There are people out there who care about you and have the answers that big pharma and the government don't want you to know about. People like me who know about ancient cures. Cures that could potentially rid the world of such evils as cancer, autism and bad hair days. Like the natural cure for tummy aches which is as simple as rubbing a mixture of pig poop, cumin and peppermint tea on your stomach under a full moon whilst humming "Girl From Ipanema." Shhhhh. THEY don...