Alex Jones is not too swift

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You can always count on Alex Jones to bring the crazy. He’s been foretelling the imminent arrival of an American police state where most of the population would either be poisoned and placed in plastic FEMA coffins sitting around in plain site in a field or forced into FEMA concentration camps for the better part of a decade now. So with that epic failure, I guess he’s always on the lookout for any crazy conspiracy these days that his imagination can cook up.

And this one, relating his friend and fellow conspiracy nutter Jesse Ventura just amuses me to know end at the silliness of it:

Does Alex know Time Warner signs Jesse Ventura’s paychecks?

Yeah, that’s right, Alex. Time Warner pays Jesse tens of thousands of dollars to report “the truth” against their own interests, and then they randomly, after airing tons of episodes of his insipid faux-journalism show, decide to find the least efficient means of silencing his voice…the voice they’re paying him to broadcast. Cause that makes a lot of sense.

2010 This Year In Skepticism – January

Here is the first part of my look back at the big skeptic-related news stories from last year. I’m just covering last January in this piece but I’ll try to cover more than one month in the next installment.

Yet another well-designed study hit another nail in the coffin of the hypothesis that the MMR vaccine is linked with autism. Then researchers concluded that there was a lack of evidence supporting special diets for autism.

New smart phone apps emerge that debunk creationism

California said no to creationist curriculum

Pat Robertson blamed the Haitian earthquake on a mythical pact the nation never made with the devil–true story–thus earning him a nomination in the douchebag of the year awards.

Vatican Bank accused of laundering $200 million.

Stephen Baldwin said he’d rather see his daughter die than lie about Jesus, earning him a solid nomination in the douchebag of the year awards.

The arrest of the businessman responsible for selling dowsing rods, aka magic wands, as bomb detectors.

UK’s General Medical Council concluded that anti-vaccine prophet Andrew Wakefield acted “dishonestly and irresponsibly.”

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledges $10 billion to vaccines and Doctors Without Borders vaccinates 2,100 kids against Measles in Pakistan – both were big victories for public health around the world.

Skeptics fail in homeopathy-based suicide attempt - The 1023 campaign sparked a great deal of attention on this little publicity stunt and made homeopathy look incredibly stupid.

Star of Scientology orientation film gives farewell performance - Larry Anderson, an actor and long-time member of $cientology who starred in their orientation film left the cult.