On 12 June 2018, I published a book review of Patronen van Bedrog, a book written by Willem Middelkoop and Tim Dollee. The title translates into Patterns of Deception. In this review (published on Kloptdatwel.nl) I argue that this is not a very good book, to say the least. It repeats conspiracy theories thrown up […]
Did WTC7 on 9/11 really descend in free fall for 2.25 seconds? A closer look at the NIST calculation.
According to truthers NIST had to admit reluctantly that WTC7 came down at free fall. My analysis shows that the calculation of NIST is questionable and that an argument can be made that the acceleration was a bit lower than the free fall acceleration.
The exceptional accurate experimental approximation of pi by Lazzarini was a joke, not fraud
It is possible to approximate pi with throwing needles on a grid, but the result Italian mathematician Mario Lazzarini published in 1901 seems too good to be true. But was it fraud? A close look into his original paper sheds some new light on this issue.
Settlement in Santilli vs. Van Erp and Israel
Two years ago Ruggero Santilli sued me for defamation. He was not pleased by some sentences in a post I wrote about one of his inventions, the Santilli Telescope. This telescope with concave lenses can detect ‘anti-matter light’, which is something completely different from ordinary light according to the genius from Florida. He also sued professor Frank Israel, chairman of the board of Stichting Skepsis, and my web host, Hosting2Go. The lawsuit has now been settled. I’ll give you an update on what happened in those two years.
Subtle Difference Between FAO and EU Regulations on the use of Alternative Medicine in Organic Farming
Organic farming has quite some influences from pseudoscientific ideas as can be seen in the preference for alternative medicine in treating livestock. Surprisingly, EU regulations for the organic food label are slightly different and worse than those from the FAO, looked upon from the perspective of animal well-being.
Fooling Tourists with the Coriolis Effect at Uganda Equator
On places where you can cross the equator, you can find people demonstrating the Coriolis effect for tourists. These performances are actually tricked as the effect is too small to be observed in this way. One guy in Uganda tricks the tourists in another way, but it is unclear whether he realises this himself.
Test Your Intolerance has no Scientific Evidence for their Bioresonance Allergy and Food Intolerance Tests
The test for allergies and food intolerance used by Test Your Intolerance are based on bioresonance, which is useless quackery. The company admits there is no scientific evidence for their tests.
Eltjo Haselhoff’s nonsensical BOL model for alleged node lengthening anomalies in crop circles
Eltjo Haselhoff proposed a physical hypothesis for the apparent anomalies in the flattened crops in crop circles. His theory was contested by Italian skeptics. Both the Italians and Haselhoff missed a pretty obvious reason to dismiss the BOL theory straight away.
Ronald Bernard of the B of Joy on Child Sacrifices and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Without any proof whatsoever, Dutchman Ronald Bernard tells about his former career as a financial specialist for a dark elite of Luciferians, claims he was invited to child sacrifices, and encourages to read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the antisemitic hoax.
Does research show that bubbles in soft drinks are causing obesity? Probably not.
Research from Birzait University appears to show that it is the carbon dioxide in soft drinks that contributes most to weight gain and not the (artificial) sugars in these beverages. However, this study seems not to be very convincing after a critical look.