Early Medical Intervention
It has been determined that dentists who lived 8,000 years ago used stone-tipped drills to repair teeth. Scientists at the University of Missouri have discovered tiny, perfectly round holes in prehistoric teeth found in Pakistan. The holes were too perfectly rounded to have been caused by decay. Under the microscope, researchers could see concentric grooves left by what was probably a drill with a tiny stone bit.
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Marcello Truzzi, one of the founders of CSICOP, has allowed this essay to be reprinted on an important new website, www.ufoskeptic.org. This website is part of a sea-change now taking place in science over the UFO question. The physical evidence is no longer being ignored or dismissed out of hand by serious scientists, and the fact that denial is not skepticism is being recognized.
“On Pseudo-Skepticism”
by Marcello Truzzi
Founding co-chairman of CSICOP
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A fundamental change may be taking place in the way that science views the UFO phenomenon.
For years, prominent members of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal have issued blanket denials that UFOs were worth scientific study. The National Academy of Sciences is on record as agreeing with this posture.
Leading members of the skeptical group, such as Randall James Zwinge (the Amazing Randi) and Philip Klass, have said that there is no evidence worth considering. The ‘skeptics’ have made this a virtual mantra. It has been crucially responsible for leading science away from the study of the phenomenon, and the media into a posture of denial and ridicule.
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Between 9 and 10 AM on Wedneday, April 11, a severe geomagnetic storm struck earth. Auroras may be visible into the middle lattitudes tonight, which would include most if not all of the United States.
A G-4 level magnetic storm is the second highest on the scale. It is capable of causing widespread voltage control problems in power systems, and inducing protective devices to remove power assets from the grid.
Satellites may have tracking problems, and surface charging could lead to damage in some cases.
Radio signal propagation may be sporadically disrupted, satellite navigation degraded, and low-frequency radio navigation also disrupted.
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