Category Archives: crank

Knock, knock, who’s there?

Posted on October 27, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Never heard of Sylvia Browne? I hadn’t either before I read this article by Jon Ronson in today’s Guardian Unlimited. Apparently, she’s the most famous psychic in the United States. If you’d like to ask her a question about, say, … Continue reading →

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Get with child a mandrake root

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Charles Lambert

It’s good to see Exeter University’s professor of complementary medicine expressing serious doubts about the validity of many herbal remedies. Most of them, apparently, don’t work and may even be harmful. This ought to be self-evident but, for an ever-increasing … Continue reading →

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A mamma, li turchi

Posted on August 25, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Remember Adnan Oktar? Of course you don’t. He’s the nutter behind the Atlas of Creation, a lavishly produced load of anti-evolution shite mass-mailed throughout Europe, as well as attempts to outlaw Darwinism in his own country and others. You can … Continue reading →

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Taking the good with the bad

Posted on July 16, 2007 by Charles Lambert

I’ve had a particularly trying few days, most of the problems being related to technology and its failings: no land line, no broadband, a mysterious corrupt file message as two days’ work is erased before my eyes and proves irretrievable. … Continue reading →

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Vade retro, empiricism

Posted on July 14, 2007 by Charles Lambert

One of the few areas in which fundamentalist Islam seemed to offer a less obscurantist view of the world than fundamentalist Christianity was that of evolution. Alas, no longer. An article in today’s Independent reveals that a bunch of Turkish … Continue reading →

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She’s mad for Jacko…

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Charles Lambert

If you’d like to know a bit more about a certain Denise Pfeiffer, media consultant to Silver Ring Thing (see previous post) and erstwhile lingerie model, click here. Believe me, you won’t regret it. (And it’s worth taking a good … Continue reading →

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It must have been quite a week…

Posted on June 14, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Now, let’s see. Monday, light, Tuesday, space. No, wait a minute. Monday, light, Tuesday, the land and the sky and the oceans. Oh hell. (No, that was later.) And all the things that creep on the surface, etc. Wednesday? Thursday? … Continue reading →

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Revealed truths 5

Posted on June 9, 2007 by Charles Lambert

A Pentecostal teaching assistant in Croydon recently quit her job after refusing to listen to a seven-year-old girl read from a Harry Potter novel on the grounds that the book glorifies witchcraft, described in the Bible as an ‘abomination’. She … Continue reading →

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Odd bedfellows

Posted on June 5, 2007 by Charles Lambert

In the wacky Tweedledum and Tweedledee world of post-modern Poland, it seems only natural that Tinky Winky and Goethe should find themselves sharing the same rather incommodious bed of censorship. The purple Teletubby and the great German poet apparently both … Continue reading →

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Revealed truths 4

Posted on June 3, 2007 by Charles Lambert

Cranks in the Czech Republic are using information from a higher source to wrap children in duct tape and leave them to dehydrate on bare floors. An article in today’s Independent – titled: Chance discovery of abused child reveals bizarre … Continue reading →

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