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Skeptics groups are experiencing declines in membership, in part due to disenchantment with controversial community leaders like "James Randi" (Randall James Zwinge), and in part due to a growing concern that the present skeptical leadership is drifting into the fallacy of rejecting all evidence that is not explained by current scientific models, a fallacy that is particularly worrisome now that a radical new model of reality appears to be emerging. (For a story about just how radical this model actually is, click here.)
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For a number of weeks, hysteria has been building in India, especially around the capital of New Delhi, that people are being attacked by a gigantic, crazed ape. Two deaths have been reported. A pregnant woman died on Tuesday when she fell down a stairway when neighbors began screaming that the monkey man was in the building. A man leaped off a roof to his death screaming “the monkey man has come.”

Now New Delhi police are saying that the claims are the result of hysteria generated by agents of Pakistan’s intelligence service, the ISI. Manoj Kumar Lal, deputy commissioner of police was quoted as saying that it was a case of mass hysteria. Police are blaming a band of men dressed in costume, claiming that they are the source of the stories.
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The number of stillborn foals and spontaneously aborted fetuses from Kentucky mares has increased to a staggering rate this spring, in a mystery plague that has shot fear throughout the state?s $1.2 million thoroughbred horse industry. In April, 318 deaths were reported, in contrast to just 46 during the same period last year. Some farms have not reported any unusual miscarriages, while others have reported death rates of 10 to 75 percent.

?It?s got a lot of people spooked, no doubt about it,? says Steven Johnson, president of the Kentucky Thoroughbred Farm Managers Club. ?I?ve talked to a lot of farm owners who aren?t going to sleep very much until they find out what is going on with their mares.? So far, tests for toxins or viruses have come back negative.
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In the British version of the Plutonium Files, which we interviewed author Eileen Welsome about on Dreamland March 4, it has been revealed that the British government conducted secret nuclear testing on Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the 1950s.
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