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Sathya Sai Baba Continues To Ail
2008-09-12 04:20:00 Mrs Geetha Reddy, Tourism Minister of Sathya Sai Baba’s State, Andhra Pradesh, had to provide a helping hand to the supposed Divine Hand of one who said that we would not see him age after his 60’s birthday. Devotees honest enough to admit it would have to attest that he has made many mistaken prophecies ...
?World Hindu? by 2030. VHP?s Singhal Reports Sathya Sai Baba Told Him
2008-09-09 01:59:00 One of India’s most powerful Hindu nationalist leaders, Ashok Singhal, who has an international profile in the Hindu world, has just told an assembly of political and religious luminaries in Delhi of a prophecy he says Sathya Sai Baba shared with him. The Organiser, September 14, 2008, reports: “… Shri Singhal also threw light on how ...
Derren Brown?s Magic Trumps Sathya Sai Baba?s
2008-09-08 04:18:00 Would Sathya Sai Baba be happy to let the students in his education system see Derren Brown, the great British magician? Or devotees to start to consider that he (SSB) is not all that he has proclaimed himself to be - which is the ALL, incarnated in the fullest expression of the Divine in the ...
Exposing Worldwide Sathya Sai Baba Cult (Sept 08,i)
2008-09-04 01:17:00 The following, mostly short, articles have appeared at: http://robertpriddy.wordpress.c-om and http://barrypittard.wordpress.c-om and, in one case, at Robert Priddy’s main website - Sathya Sai Baba In Word And Action in the last few days. The following information is compiled at: http://www.saibaba-x.org.uk/HOM-E/Sai_Baba_news.htm where there is an extensive list of blogs and articles, with the latest updates clearly noted. Barry Pittard. 4 September, ...
Human Rights World Report 2008. India In Sore Shape
2008-09-02 04:25:00 The Human Rights Watch World Report 2008 is in marked conflict with Sathya Sai Baba’s promises made over many decades. He has said that he would first save India and then the rest of the world - this within his own lifetime. His millions of followers hear his blatantly untrue statements but remain silent and blindly ...
Michael Goldstein?s Chilling 9/11 Remarks
2008-09-01 01:25:00 Chairman of the worldwide Sathya Sai Organization, Dr Michael Goldstein of Covina, southern California - once in an email widely circulated to the Sai cult devotees - made extraordinary statements about 9/11. Become A Sai Devotee And Get Terrorist-Proof Here is the statement from Dr Goldstein, a medical doctor of Covina, California, USA. A second reading may be ...
?World Avatar? Sathya Sai Baba?s Troubled Trail
2008-08-31 00:42:00 In any clear reading of the officially published works of Sathya Sai Baba, there are zig-zagging trails of anomaly. The Troubled Trail One sees glaring contradictions, unfulfilled prophecies and broken promises. The multi-colored and pretty ‘balloons’ that he has for so many decades floated - supposedly for the delight of all humanity - keep on popping, ...
Sathya Sai Baba vs. Richard Dawkins
2008-08-25 12:48:00 Sathya Sai Baba has constantly denigrated reason, science, logic and scholarship in favour of faith, especially faith in himself. However, he has proved that he cannot be relied on at all in any way. With his deeply flawed logic and demonstrated ignorance of scientific fact and logical thought, he cannot face up to any rational ...
?God?s? Ex-Shah, Indulal Shah
2008-07-30 02:50:00 Indulal Shah, of Mumbai, India, was the world head of the Sathya Sai Organization, and, previously, for decades, the head of the Indian wing of that organization. In June 1993, at the time of the Puttaparthi police killings in Sathya Sai Baba?s bedroom, Indulal Shah rose to his height in adroit and politically powerful suppressive actions ...
The Non Miraculous Benefit of Who and What is Different
2008-07-20 00:57:00 The interested reader can readily find a whole literature concerning the scientific investigation of miracles and other alleged supraphenomena. (I shall soon blog on the issue of the alleged Shirdi Sai Baba miracle, said to have occurred in Bangalore on July 18, 2008, courting such headlines in the Indian national press such as the Times ...
Self-documented Folly of India?s Would-be God
2008-07-10 09:38:00 It is sobering to consider that Sathya Sai Baba’s influence extends into powerful corners, and his marked deficiencies reveal the worthwhileness of exposing his human rather than any divine qualities. One of the benefits of Brian Steel’s extensive examination of official Sathya Sai publications is that we can see with considerable impact the extraordinary ignorance, inconsistency ...
Believing in Sai (photo) and spiritual growth
2008-06-20 15:32:00 Under the title “How is believing in miracles helpful in one’s spiritual growth? (http://saibandhu.tblog.com/arc-hive/2005/05/) by Anjali Gadiraju one reads the following:- “Once Bhagavan said to an old man, “Today is the death anniversary of your wife.” Bhagavan even told him more details. He may have met so many people in between. Yet He remebers everything and ...
Dangers to the lives of critics of Sathya Sai Baba
2008-05-18 12:24:00 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/prog-rammes/this_world/3813469.stm That it is too dangerous for opponents of Sathya Sai Baba to enter India, considering his control of much of the government, judiciary, local police etc. is underlined by the number of murders, fatal accidents and disappearances registered through the years. It is hardly inviting to any sensible citizen to go to this place when ...
Hossa Silencing Skeptics, So Far
2008-05-15 02:26:00 The biggest knock on Marian Hossa was his play in the post season. Know that Hossa has played 12 games in the post season this year, where are the critics?
By: Rumor Me This
Top people protected from prosecution in India
2008-05-05 23:49:00 THE MURDER COVER-UP CONTINUES DESPITE INTERNATIONAL FOCUS http://news.sky.com/skynews/art-icle/0,,30000-1314979,00.html This tragic case has at least come to international notice due to the courage of Mrs. MacKeown, whose daughter’s kidneys and other inner organs were removed from the corpse without her consent, which she is still trying to recover but without success so far! Where is the British Consulate ...
Blockbuster And Circuit City: Most Of You Are Skeptics
2008-04-15 17:26:00 Posted By:Margaret BrennanMost Retail Detail readers are skeptical about Blockbuster's attempted takeover of Circuit City. Carl Icahn is financing this deal but Circuit City management seems to be resisting it. What's interesting is that Circuit City is now in play. Â Â Â Read More Topics:Mergers & Acquisitions | Consumers | Retail SalesSectors:Personal and Household Goods | RetailCompanies:Circuit City Stores Inc | Blockbuster IncPermalink
By: Retail Detail
Cult Exposure. By Their Documents Ye Shall Know Them
2008-04-01 05:13:00 Those organizations and individuals approached by the International Sathya Sai Organization may do well to look at the page just constructed by Robert Priddy. Now a retired academic from the University of Norway, he was for over fifteen years its head in Norway, until his prolonged and rigorous investigations disclosed its profound duplicity (often hidden ...
Ye Olde Goracle Bloviates On Skeptics
2008-03-29 12:44:00 Sad, really Self-avowed “P.R. agent for the planet” Al Gore says those who still doubt that global warming is caused by man - among them, Vice President Dick Cheney - are acting like the fringe groups who think the 1969 moon landing never really happened, or who once believed the world is flat. Confronted by Stahl with ...
By: Pirate's Cove
Al Gore On 60 Minutes This Sunday, Hits Back At Climate Change Skeptics
2008-03-28 19:05:00 It’s been a week of renewed interest in Al Gore, so what better way to cap it off than with an interview on 60 Minutes this Sunday? The former Vice President sites down and chats with Lesley Stahl about climate change skeptics, Global Warming, and even shows his new green-renovated home. Here’s a small preview, “Confronted ...
By: Ecorazzi
Former VP retard Message To “Climate Change Skeptics”
2008-03-28 16:50:00 Read more if you care…. damm this dude is such a fucken fraud
Gore Says Global Warming Skeptics Same as Believing in a Flat Earth
2008-03-28 04:58:00 This hoax peddler is persistent: According to CBS, when correspondent Lesley Stahl says to the former vice president and 2000 Democratic presidential nominee that some prominent leaders aren’t convinced that humans are contributing to the problem, Gore says: “You’re talking about Dick Cheney. I think that those people are in such a tiny, tiny minority now with their point of view, they?re almost like the ones who still believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona and those who believe the world is flat. … That demeans them a little bit, but it’s not that far off.” Right, there is an equivalency between believing the Earth is flat, and not believing the doctrine of the Church of Global Warming™. Just because it hasn’t warmed, but cooled, since 1998, no reason to doubt global warming. Just because it was just as warm 800 years ago, no reason to doubt this current trend is man-made. Just because the Science and ...
Firepower Trains Legal Guns on Skeptics
2008-02-15 00:00:00 By John Editor The Firepower Pill is a fuel additive which promises to lower fuel consumption, reduce emissions, and clean engine internals. As a bonus, it will also make you taller and more attractive to members of the opposite sex....
By: CarDomain Blog
Cholesterol Skeptics
2008-02-13 01:00:00 Cholesterol skeptics are becoming mainstream as evidence does not support the cholesterol hypothesis...
Skepticism About Homeopathy: Can’t We Just Ignore the Skeptics?
2008-01-29 21:20:00 Homeopathy is the bad boy of healing systems. Over 200 years after its inception it continues to generate controversy, and being skeptical about homeopathy is far more popular than simply accepting it as is. It is not surprising, therefore, that possibly the most popular article on this blog has been Is Homeopathic Medicine the “Enemy of Reason”? (see also the comments that follow it), where I offered an example of the media’s sensationalization of the alleged scientific implausibility and irrationality of homeopathy. Why be skeptical about homeopathy in a homeopathic blog? There are four main reasons for being interested in the skeptical perspective on homeopathy: Perhaps the skeptics will turn out to be correct: homeopathy is all a big lie, and I shouldn’t be wasting my life and your time. More soberly, engaging with the skeptical arguments against homeopathy helps one in developing a balanced, well-reasoned perspective on the subject: while skeptics...
By: Homeopathy Zone
Underestimated: What the skeptics don?t get about Mike Huckabee
2008-01-04 22:37:00 (image: boston.com) Through all the talk radio shows, blogs read, and even conversations with Republican friends, I’ve heard more names thrown the way of Mike Huckabee than I can think of. He’s a Socialist, a right-wing nutball, a bible-thumper, and outright stupid (curiously Ann Coulter of all people had the audacity to say this). Last night’s huge ...
By: postpolitical
Pat Sajak Fires Up Global Warming Skeptics With 10 Questions
2008-01-03 01:55:00 Leave it to a game show host to get everyone talking about global warming. Pat Sajak, legendary host of Wheel of Fortune, is also something of a part-time blogger. Needless to say, his political views are firmly ingrained with the right — having served on the board of directors for the conservative think-tank Claremont Institute and ...
By: Ecorazzi
FBI To Share Stage With 9/11 Skeptics And Jihadist Supporters
2007-12-03 22:54:00 Oh the crazy world we live in! Jawa Report has all the details.Muslims meet up for the annual Texas Dawah Conventiona, what could possibly go wrong? You may remember that two years ago Yahya Ibrahim, who was to be a featured speaker, was denied entry into the U.S. by Customs agents.The event is being billed as "focusing on the family", but the speakers include known associates of convicted terrorists, terror supporters, and 9/11 skeptics. In addition to the various seminars, some of them given by supporters of the most conservative brand of Sunni Islam, the event will also have a variety of carnival rides--and a petting zoo!What's interesting about this year's meetup of Islamists in the U.S. is that an FBI agent will be a featured speaker. Ironically, Special Agent Randall Clark appears to be on the cyber crimes task force. Given that Islamists are experts at using the internet to propagandize and recruit new blood for jihad, you'd hope he was there in a monitoring capacity.Don'...
Glittering Soccer World Cup Draw Aims to Silence Skeptics - Voice of Americ
2007-11-26 19:03:00 PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)Glittering Soccer World Cup Draw Aims to Silence SkepticsVoice of America - 1 hour agoBy Scott Bobb Organizers of the 2010 soccer World Cup in South Africa are calling Sunday's preliminary draw in the southern city of Durban a success. ...Nigeria: Fifa World Cup Draws Holds Today AllAfrica.comSA silence World Cup sceptics for now Independent OnlineAfrica: World Cup, African Nations Cup Draw Revealed AllAfrica.comGoal.com - Guardian Unlimitedall 500 news articles
Glittering Soccer World Cup Draw Aims to Silence Skeptics - Voice of Americ
2007-11-26 19:03:00 PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)Glittering Soccer World Cup Draw Aims to Silence SkepticsVoice of America - 7 hours agoBy Scott Bobb Organizers of the 2010 soccer World Cup in South Africa are calling Sunday's preliminary draw in the southern city of Durban a success. ...Nigeria: Fifa World Cup Draws Holds Today AllAfrica.comSA silence World Cup sceptics for now Independent OnlineAfrica: World Cup, African Nations Cup Draw Revealed AllAfrica.comGoal.com - Guardian Unlimitedall 508 news articles
74th Skeptics’ Circle - Med Journal Watch [denialism blog]
2007-11-21 21:55:00 Med Journal Watch has it up. I must admit some sadness that yet again one of my skeptic colleagues has fallen for Sandy Szwarc’s nonsense though. People, figure this out, she’s not a real skeptic. They don’t make blanket statements like this: Hearing that a study found some food, exposure or physical characteristic is associated with a 5% to 200% higher risk for some health problem seem like a frightening lot. It’s easy to scare people half to death by citing relative risks that sound big but aren’t actually viable. Such modest risks (RR=1.05 - 3.0) don’t go beyond a null finding by more than chance (the toss of a dice or random coincidence) or a mathematical or modeling error, even if they’re reported as “statistically significant” in an underpowered study. Larger increases in risk are less likely to have happened by chance. False positives are also often due to various biases and confounding factors. Regular JFS readers under...
Are skeptics losing ground?
2007-11-03 00:00:00 It's amazing to me how popular the subject of psychics and mediums has become. As early as the 1950's, there were still laws on the books in England calling it witchcraft. Now you can barley turn the channel on the television set without coming accross a movie or tv show on the subject.Danielle Murray or the Montreal Gazette writes the following article about her reading and view on psychics going mainstream:I didn't want my fortune told. The only time I& ...
Sai Baba To Be Seen In Moon? But Where Was Moon?
2007-10-26 06:28:00 Today’s blog suggests that Sai Baba has, leave aside his recent would-be moon sightings, not been particularly bright himself. And how can he be so when the evidence - that can less and less be hidden from his rank-and-file devotees - suggests that he now suffers from senile dementia? He has not selected the brightest moon, nor a cloudless ...
Exposure of Sathya Sai Baba. Media Source List
2007-10-23 04:37:00 Media resources source list relating to the exposé of Sathya Sai Baba and his cult. Compiled by Barry Pittard: bpittard (at) optusnet.com.au Note: Please kindly report any errors, updates, or suggest improvements. This overview - not exhaustive - was mainly compiled well before the BBC’s The Secret Swami, June 2004, and amid many far more pressing duties. I ...
The Secret Swami. BBC Docu. Review. Condensed
2007-10-16 05:09:00 Many have sought out my article, The BBC’s The Secret Swami - A Reflection. However, it is very long, and many readers are very busy. So, for the sake of condensation, here, in the form of quotes, are some key pieces of information from it. Downloadable video footage is in the clickable references at the ...
Muslim Leaders Initiative Bold. Sai Baba?s Efforts Fail
2007-10-12 15:22:00 An extraordinary cross-section of mainstream Muslim clerics, theologians and academics have acted in a way that Sai Baba and his mega wealthy worldwide cult have profoundly failed to act. This failure needs to be made very clear within the interfaith movement. The members of the Sathya Sai Organization which has attempted to interact with it, can be challenged to ...
Sai Baba Fails To Appear In Moon, IANS Reports
2007-10-05 02:26:00 In the last hours, many Sai Baba devotees have received yet another of many setbacks to expectations that he would perform, as he has so many times promised, this or that great miracle. Of course, my dear reader may have noticed that at least Sai Baba’s afro hairdo has been seen quite clearly on the moon on ...
The 68th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle: London made me forget [Resp
2007-08-30 22:10:00 From deep in the heart of London, even here on vacation, I couldn’t forget to mention that the 68th Meeting of the Skeptics’ Circle has been posted by Martin over at Aardvarchaeology. This carnival is remarkable for two things: First for Martin’s no nonsense style of presentation; and second, because, thanks to my vacation, I totally forgot to submit anything to the Circle, making it perhaps the first Circle in two years that is totally Orac-free. Fortunately, I’m redundant, and the Circle is great without any contributions by me. Unfortunately, I’m redundant, and the Circle is great without any contributions by me. Oh, well. In any case, next up is Unscrewing the Inscrutable on September 13. Start getting your best skeptical posts ready! And, as always, if you’re interested in hosting one of these puppies yourself, check out the schedule and the guidelines for hosting. Then drop me a line. I’ll get you worked into the schedule, assuming, of...
Skeptics’ Circle 68 [Aardvarchaeology]
2007-08-30 10:50:00 Welcome to Aardvarchaeology and the 68th Skeptics’ Circle blog carnival! For first-time visitors, let me say that this is a blog about whatever runs through the mind of a skeptical research archaeologist based in Stockholm, Sweden. For first-time carnivalers, let me explain that here, skepticism means to not believe anything without good reason, and to reserve judgement in uncertain cases. This carnival is about reason and critical thinking from all around the world. Onward to glory! Swiss blogger Christian at Med Journal Watch discusses a study of US preterm birth whose authors draw poorly founded race-related conclusions. Singaporean blogger Sieow at Skeptical Personal Development takes a look at a soundbite often attributed to Einstein. Australian blogger Theo at Humbug Online has set up a quiz to determine your Paranormal Profile. Swedish-Irish blogger Paddy K at the Swedish Extravaganza calls for the liberation of all folks who like to sleep late. US blogger Steve at the...
P.N. Bhagwati, India?s Ex-Chief Justice: Wild, Reckless Claims
2007-08-28 02:29:00 P.N. Bhagawati, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India, a key figure on the Sathya Sai Central Trust (India) has also long been on the Board of Directors of The Times of India. In a joint public letter (December 2001), Bhagwati along with the former Prime Minister of India of the right wing BJP, A.B. ...
Robert Priddy (2). The Protection of the Young and Innocent
2007-08-22 11:29:00 Disaffection from a powerful belief system is often a slowgoing process, particularly when there has been adherence to a charismatic figure. And this, moreover, when many followers experience states difficult to understand for those who undergo them as it is for even sympathetic scientists. Going on then, to expose to the public an institution’s and ...
Chevy Volt Skeptics Continue to Breathe Their Last Gasps
2007-08-21 20:33:00 A recent syndicated article is entitled: “Critics skeptical of Buzz over GM’s latest electric car”. Ever since the Volt concept was first announced in January we’ve been inundated by these pessimistic commentaries which do little more themselves than to feed off the negative hype left behind from the EV1 era. This latest piece starts off ...
India?s state
2007-08-17 11:35:00 India is famous for its glut of temples everywhere and for amount of public prayers, their length too. No one denies that Indians pray a great deal ? very much more than Western Europeans, without doubt. One might well say they have all reason, so difficult are the lives of the majority of them. India ...
[TS] OP-ED COLUMNIST; Bono, Foreign Aid And Skeptics
2007-08-16 06:08:00 Getting foreign aid right is harder than it looks. So how do we make aid smarter? More: continued here
Skeptics Beware
2007-08-13 21:50:00 Given all the bamboozlement surrounding climate science I thought I'd share a recent LTTE I wrote in response to a local (SC) climate skeptic who managed to get his misinformation past the brilliant censors at the Post & Courier. Some quick background, popular skeptic Stephen McIntyre invented a controversy which was unprofessionally recited--incorrectly at times--by skeptics throughout the blogosphere and the media. A minor error that moved the record high temperature in the continental US from 1998 to 1934 and causing the high point to move from "being in a virtual tie, to being in a virtual tie" was the culprit here. (The site I am quoting here has been attacked and will make your browser freeze up. Click this link at your own risk!) We should thank McIntyre for finding this error but ignore his claims that it is a big issue. It only affects the continental US data not the global data. And it is global warming.Anyway, a recent letter to the editor (titled "Warming skeptic...
By: American Entropy
India Lead World? Sai Baba Says Yes. Robert Priddy No
2007-08-13 04:53:00 Sai Baba has many times said that, as a result of his appearance as the Avatar of all avatars (divine incarnations), India will lead the whole world in spirituality and the peace of mankind, and that he will guide this whole process, to be essentially accomplished in his own lifetime. Robert Priddy has some terse words ...
Gurubusting Sathya Sai Baba
2007-08-10 03:01:00 Basava Premanand and Professor Narendra Nayak, the courageous Indian Rationalists and tenacious ?guru busters,? travel India revealing how tricksters like Sai Baba appear to materialize sacred ash, called vibhuthi, or manifest, as Sai Baba pretends to do, a golden lingam or Shiva lingam, called Lingodhbhava or sometimes Brahmananda lingam. Premanand has told the BBC he has ...
[TS] Bono, Foreign Aid and Skeptics
2007-08-09 09:08:00 Getting foreign aid right is harder than it looks. So how do we make aid smarter?… More: continued here
Super-Rich Indian Gurus who don?t deliver what they promise
2007-08-08 12:34:00 Billionaire Non-delivering ‘Spiritual gurus’ The ‘many-billion dollar question’ is not really so much how Sai Baba has generated such huge coffers, for this is almost ‘par for the course’ for Swamis, gurus and temples in India. Tirupathi is reckoned to be the most fabulous as to wealth, and the Puri Temple of Jagannath is not ...
Sai Baba (Baa-Baa Black Sheep) a misunderstood ?Second Coming?
2007-08-03 09:48:00 After almost 30 years of Mission (24 -12 72, in Bangalore), Sathya Sai Baba gave the first of a series of annual Discourses on Jesus Christ. . The Discourse culminates in a preposterous claim that Jesus announced Sai Baba’s future Advent from the Cross. This is still taken seriously by devotees and the Sathya Sai Organization ...
66th Skeptics’ Circle is up… [Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpa
2007-08-02 10:04:00 …at the Denialism Blog. It’s funny — until a few years ago, my concept of “skepticism” was not at all philosophical, but was instead very much in tune with the vernacular; that is, rather than think of skeptics as people who require those making claims to adduce evidence for those claims, I more or less thought of them as merely difficult to please or convince. That is absolutely the case, but if you had asked me if I was just “skeptical” about skygods and woo, I would have said “No, I’m not ’skeptical,’ I am most emphatically convinced that such stuff is a crock!” I was, at least subconsciously, putting the onus on the wrong people. Just a matter of words, I guess. But there are some good ones at the link. So hit it. Read the comments on this post… Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-ScienceblogsCombinedFeed/~3/139-926573/66th_skeptics_circle_is_-up.php |
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