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POPSAlien Abductions may be Vivid Dreams Researchers have been able to reproduce "Alien Abduction" dreams in subjects by coaching them to take certain mental steps upon awakening or becoming lucid during the night, allowing them to experience Out-Of-Body Projection, leading to the mind forming "aliens" on its own. The study is far from conclusive, but it does suggest more hidden powers of the human mind and the possibility of there being actual "psychic" powers beyond OOB.
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POPSVatican Claims UFOs to Blame for Much of Church Scandal leaving us to scratch our heads and wonder if they ever really did exist at all. At one point, we were so convinced that we were making the whole scandal up that we had our own leader, Pope Benedict, give a sermon on the very subject of subjectivity." While Pope Benedict will not come right out and say that the Vatican has an alien problem, he does admit that there are some mighty strange goings on that have seriously shaken his core beliefs. For instance, the Pope claims that on more than one occasion he's found himself saying things like "God is not solitude, but perfect communion," an obvious reference to the Science Fiction thriller where giant alien bugs give exams in places most humans can't see from a direct angle. In fact, the Vatican is undergoing a major pest extermination project as we speak "just to be on the safe side," claims Benedict.
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POPSThe pattern behind self-deception This video is Shermer's discussion about how the human tendency to believe strange things is actually due to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills
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POPSGlobal Warming a Huge Expense in 2008 Recent events have proved that companies and nations aren't made out of money and can run out. Still, let's keep pretending that GW isn't happening and it's all some nutty idea like alien abductions. Really, what's the worst that can happen? Besides, the economy's freakin' awesome and we can totally afford to pay ten of billions a year.