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Even better, when he gave the speed live, he dropped http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/ap ... ust-speech - but it's obvious really - THEY must have got to him. Which only goes to prove his point that they control everything... btw I believe the bit about his calling for Israel to...

Whatever you say about ol' Ahmadinejad, he certainly brings conspiracy theory right into the mainstream: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/ap ... ech-israel

I'm not sure what abusing your position means as a publicist. He just generates publicity...very effectively. Of course he "plays" the media, that's the job of everyone in PR, isn't it?

I think the cock-up theory works very well here. How else can you explain how 12 attackers with automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and hand grenades failed to kill anyone on board a stationary, unprotected bus when there were no police shooting back and the driver had been...

No he didn't! He simply took the hackneyed "science is just another faith" approach, completely ignored how scientists have actually studied evolution and what the believe in favour of his own (wrong) version. I think the technical term is a "straw man" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man...

The Hafnium one turns out not to be junk science - it got a lot of criticism, but ultimately it turned out to work. Research is now much lower key, because they know how easily funding can be cut when they get called 'pseudoscience.'

One unsubstanatiated and wildly speculative guess - unbeknownst to you, she always brought in cucumber sandwiches for lunch. Some of her colleagues knew about it, so your 'cucumber' joke looked that it was aimed at her. It may not be true, but it explains everything wonderfully, and isn't...

Try googling it. I'm not about to, but I'd be amazed if there aren't a stack of video hits.

Poozler - That sounds about right. It's all about memes; a story can mutate every times it is told by the teller changing any given detail. If the mutation makes it more 'contagious', that version spreads more. Unsucessful stories die out. Mutations like happening more recently or closely...

How would you suggest the police identify suspects, or rule out non-suspects? If there is no way of identifying someone, it might be a little difficult.

Not according to the autopsies. they get dragged through the courts every time and Taser keep being found blameless. Check the original report. The relative risk of police use-of-force options: Evaluating the potential for deployment of electronic weaponry Link* What's the alternative...

It's called 'excited delirium' and it's usually related to drug use and over-excitement (i.e. getting into a punch-up with the cops) http://pso.hmprisonservice.gov.uk/pso16 ... lirium.htm

...note the "potenially" in there. As far as proved cases go, as far as I know there has only been one instance where a Tasar has been considered even partly contributory. (Actually make that two, there was another one where someone was Tased and fell to their death) But that's after tens of...

Are you sure abot that? or is it just that if you sling enough mud, some of it gets believed? Anyone can claim that Tasers kill, but that's not what the actual autopsies show. That seems a bit careless unless you know where it came from (...not Taser Inc!)

Never heard of the legend, but a friend used to have a beautiful black six-toed cat (called Polly, for obvious reasons). I wonder if you get the wish even if you don;t know about it? Be careful what you wish for...

In real life they have saved a lot of lives. Even New Scientist, which is generally scathing , accepts that on balance they save lives - http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg1 ... tml?page=2 - roughly 70 lives are saved for every taser death. Sure they can also be abused, but they have...

...because it's a lot safer than shooting them. Taser Inc have done a lot of research on this, and while some of the results have not been released, basically you can't set off explosives with them. A bullet, on the other hand, will detonate quite a lot of unstable compounds. More to the...

People have a very negative image of Tasers (thanks largely to negative media coverage and a few cases of abuse). In fact, even sceptics have to conclude that they do save lives. In terms of apprehending suspects, they appear to be less likely to cause death or serious injury than...

Are you sure about that? I'd put money that you will get just exactly that effect when the wind blows in the right direction at the right strength and that resonance will have a lot to do with it. Have you tired looking at other aerials etc? (Edit after reading the bit about vortex...

"Every one of Islington's 12 care homes included staff who were paedophiles, child pornographers or pimps. Police secretly confirmed that several Islington workers were 'major operators in the supply of children for abuse and pornography'" ...these are not verified and arguably very close...

- I think we've all been worried about that for some time.

There's not much sign (as far as I can see) of modern ULs. In our celeb-obsessed culture there don't seem to be that many celeb-based ULs - I can only think of the "David Beckham paid my mortgage" one. As for new technology, has there been a techno-UL since the poodle in the microwave? And...

Does rather give the lie to the idea that there is all this unfettered surveillance going on. That's not Fortean Times' David V Barrett is it? he knows a few things about conspiracies?

Er, isn't that what sniffer dogs are for? In any case, with both dogs and swabs, it's just a matter of suspects -- it might mean you get searched, you're not sent to jail for it. And why has there been so little discussion of the 42 days issue here? Doesn't the conspicuous defeat of the...

A place where racial abuse and discrimination is accepted isn't exactly free for the minorities (or majorities) being abused; one where the law protects citizens from discrimination and violence is a great improvement. A country where the police have to be polite to the citizenry is the...

With a comment like that, I do wonder if you know what a police state is. It's about totalitarian repression - imprisonment without trial, no habeas corpus, extra-judicial punishment etc. AFAIK all current police states work pretty well without CCTV, but they do rely on things like a...

I can see how this happens - when the fake owls are put up, people naturally prefer a sinister, secret explanation to the real one (they're quite effective for keeping birds off). I bet the supposed cameras are wireless with no power supply or visible lenses... I remember seeing the fake owls...

Re: Where is all your Helium :?: Not on Earth or space. No, people are frightened of terrorists because they're a threat. I don't think your work has anyone scared. And 'intellectual' has other implications too.

Re: Where is all your Helium :?: Not on Earth or space. Please provide some evidence for this astonishing claim. Also explain how sucha fire could remain burning for millions of years without exhausting its fuel (...or is that a lie as well?) This just gets more wacky and less credible...

Or is it a myth that Darwinism is a myth? You can't lose either way...

Re: Where is all your Helium :?: Not on Earth or space. The sun - which is most of the mass of the solar system - is 71% hydrogen by weight. What do you think the rest of it is? (It's easy to tell by spectroscopy). Now I think we're getting to the root of it...

Oddly enough, I thought the stoat pack one was useless. They didn't talk to anyone who knew anything about stoats (not exactly rare and mythical beasts -- there's plenty of info out there) or animal behaviour, or look into the reality of the thing. As far as I can tell, it was based entirely on...

The second para of your "thesis" at http://www.h2one2.com/main.sc "Hydrogen and oxygen are the most abundant gas molecules found in the universe so the core is mostly built from these ignitable and explosive gases. " Helium is far more abundant than oxygen, and in any case the Earth's core...

You lose - I've had all sorts of patisserie for breakfast. I've never had Coca Cola with breakfast though (but I've seen people who do), maybe that's the definitive US invention?

You mean "grammar Nazi," surely? ;)

The first pumpkin pie recipe - "Tourte of pumpkin " was an english translation from a French one by Francois Pierre la Varenne - http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/ ... kinPie.htm - so I don't think the US claim that one either. They probably invented something at some time though.

Note that the Radiation Research Trust is not an official body, and there's no mention of whether thee results are peer-reviewed. I'm guessing not, but can anyone else confirm?

In this case it may be that the dog looked like a lion - FT had pics a while back of a dog which ended up with a 'mane' (due to fur loss) and was regularly mistaken for a lion. There was also a piece in FT a while back on why people routinely mistake things for big cats; apparently it's part...

Stan Gooch's book is reviewed in the current FT and promises all sorts of revelations - Neanderthals as matriarchal, moon-worshipping mystics....but it looks like a load of hooey, unless he's got an awful lot to back it up with. Anyone else know anything about this?

But why the hand in the waistcoat? One explanation: "Contrary to the legend it is not a question to relieve a pain with the stomach, it is in fact an iconographic license all Rhétorique, far from the representations warmongers which point out the warrior, one sees here the consul in the...

I used a left luggage locker at a US railways station (Chicago) last week, and found that as well as giving you a PIN number to retrieve your luggage, it also does a fingerprint scan, supposedly as a security measure. Who's security? Is this so that if someone tries to blow the station up...

It's a thermal imager, not a magic wand. If a body has been cooling for a few hours it may be far from obvious (were they looking for a dead body at that stage) and IIRC this was in woodland where you don't always get a cllear field of view. I bet they quite often miss things like this on the...

The idea seems to be that the original Illuminati groups were basically a form of Qaballism (?sp), and the same ideas got picked up by lots of others. There in't one single group of Illuminati, but lots of the groups out there supposed to be associated with them - Masons, Rosicrucians etc - all...

You may be right. But two things bother me - - that the tiniest grain of truth may be something quite mundane. Stories of giants were of men who were simply big but have gradually been magnified down the ages. Vampires may originally have been people suffering from porphyria, with all the...

Everyone has to draw the line somewhere (or do they?)...even if you buy into Yetis, Nessie and Uri Geller, there must be a lot of things even you find hard to swallow. Inhabitants of the hollow earth, Atlantis, werewolves...?

I'd love to know what sort of power output they're expecting that would make a moon close to Saturn pelasantly habitable while exposing Earth much futher away to lethal radiation. Then again, wouldn't it be great if for once the super-conspiracy was run by a bunch of complete incompetants...

The effect is real enough, but it's not so deadly as they say. it's otherwise known as "clear sky precipitation" or diamond dust -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_dust ...but it's a better story their way...

Check out the fluctuations of the period around the Little Ice Age and how they compare to the current warming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

Well, you're in a small mimority there because they've been monitoring solar output pretty closely for some years and it's not coprrelating with climate change. You didn't answer my question though: the question now is whether we can affect climate change by altering CO2 emissions. Are you...