The problem is not only that many Africans don’t have enough to eat, it’s that they’re very fond of bush meat, which is the wild game of Africa. The problem is that this includes monkey meat, which is being illegally imported into the UK?and it often carries the lethal Ebola virus along with it. Last year, smuggled bush meat was implicated in 25,000 airport seizures in the UK, a 62% increase since 2004. Imagine the horror of an Ebola plague–in London! And if one started in London, it?s inevitable that, like SARS, it would eventually spread to this continent. This is more important than ever, since new research shows that one of the ways that HIV jumped from chimps to humans was through eating bush meat.
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Scientists around the world are concerned about creationism being taught in schools, instead of evolution. For them, this is all part of the trend towards junk science, which shapes facts to fit beliefs?at a time when, more than ever, we need REAL science to solve our major problems.

In the Independent, Sarah Cassidy quotes British Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, who has been interviewed on Dreamland, as saying he wants to “help those [teachers] who are attempting to uphold the rights of young people to have access to accurate scientific knowledge about the origins and evolution of life on Earth.”
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We wrote a story over a year ago about a mysterious disease which is affecting people primarily in California and Florida. Then we found out that this may not be a real disease. It could also be the strange skin disease we reported on two years ago. Now KTVU.comreports that while most physicians are still skeptical about it, one scientist is beginning to take Morgellons seriously.
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Maurice Cotterell reveals the truth about the Holy Grail in a way that it has never been revealed before. He has discovered that the SAME CODE that explains the mysteries of the Maya can be used with Celtic artifacts to explain the mystery of the Grail. You?­ve never heard anything like this??this important, this convincing, and just plain WEIRD! Then Linda Howe investigates a horse that was videotaped hanging in the air over an Italian city.

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