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News Briefs 06-09-2010

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Quote of the Day:

I don’t care too much what people think. I’m much more interested in tracking something which I think is meaningful and which I think eventually will become more and more meaningful. That’s what science is all about. We’re driven by curiosity

Dr Dean Radin

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  1. Skeptical Archaeology
    Greg, nice work on Labor Day! (I know you Aussies don’t observe this one.)

    I watched one of the first episodes of Chasing Mummies, but haven’t been able to stomach any further shows. Even so, I have to admit that “Reality TV” is the right genre for Zahi Hawass. It allows him to be a “skeptical dick” without any acting!

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/arts/television/14mummies.html

    In the episode I watched, Hawass decides to lead one more (he says it would be his last) tour to the upper reaches of the Great Pyramid. In the episode, a young female under-study that he takes up with him has a small bladder and she lends new meaning to the term “relieving chamber”. Hawass uses this as an excuse to literally create a scene for the show. He angrily rebukes her for violating the “sacred Pyramid”, but immediately after this he flatly rejects that the Egyptians had any outside help (supernatural or otherwise) in the construction of the Great Pyramid. Sorry Hawass, you can’t have it both ways!

    For the record, Hawass took Josh Bernstein into the relieving chambers just a few years back without getting all pissed off.

    http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/14530/Who_Built_The_Pyramids__Digging_For_The_Truth_Pt_2/
    (the footage begins about 4 minutes into the 10 minute video)

  2. flow chart
    are you rich and insane? no…then you should be atheist 😛

    if you think underwear is magical you should be mormon…

    …well what if you believe in reincarnation but f**king love bacon?
    You should be wolf 😉

  3. Skeptical dicks

    But lately, it’s been pointed out several times that a lot of skeptics are dicks. Either that, or they come across as dicks, which to a casual observer is the same thing. As skeptics spend a great deal of effort trying to encourage others to join in or at least see things differently (i.e. more rationally), this isn’t a useful trait.

    This has caused a lot of discussion and heated debate as to who exactly is being a dick and why. One side usually accuses another of being dicks because of their ‘incorrect’ actions when engaging others, and these in turn accuse their accusers of being dicks because they’re ‘clearly’ the ones in the ‘wrong’. And on and on, like a bunch of dicks.

    Oh, the irony. Also, my preferred term of ‘skeprick’ hasn’t been picked up.

    Sir! I shall begin right away to disseminate the term, sir! 😉

  4. Bat-sh*t Zahi
    I suspect that this episode with the caves (that were not supposed to exist) will the beginning of Zahi’s downfall.

    In the end, he has done nothing but confirm the work of Collins, in the most ridiculous way possible on top of that.

    Not to mention Egyptian museum officials are currently in a bit of a pickle; a PR disaster which will surely hinder any further attempts to secure Nefertiti’s bust for Zahi’s dreamed opening of the new Cairo museum in 2012.

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