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Charlie is a writer living and working in rural eastern Maine. He is a news junkie with a love of science, and he has been a skeptic for the past 20 years.
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Crime spree shows psychics can get away with almost anything
Psychic Gina Marie Marks was arrested again this week, for theft of cash from her clients in Hollywood, Florida. Her ongoing crime spree shows just...
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Psychic brags about eighteen-year-old failure on Jaycee Dugard kidnap reading
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It didn’t take a psychic gift to know that someone was going to claim they had predicted the safe return of kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard. Dayle...
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Fortunetelling should not be protected free speech
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In Montgomery County, Maryland, it is temporarily illegal to accept money for “forecasting or foretelling or for pretending to forecast or...
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Scientology exposed as newspaper, former members defy church intimidation
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This week, in a move that defies the Church of Scientology's history of overwhelming critics through lawsuits and...
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Acai berry scams proliferate; let the buyer beware
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Ads for acai berry-related products are inescapable these days, but consumers are well-advised to be skeptical.Viral marketing of the purplish black...
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Update: Hausers return home
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Update: Colleen Hauser returned with her son overnight to their home in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota. Hauser now says that had she not gone with her son...
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Mother and 13-year-old medicine man still fleeing chemo; court documents reveal deeper tragedy
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Colleen Hauser and her son Daniel, a medicine man in the Nemenhah religion, are still on the run to avoid giving Daniel chemotherapy. The two...
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Mother says 13-year-old son is medicine man; her belief may kill him
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Daniel Hauser will probably die if his mother Colleen is successful in avoiding the law. The thirteen-year-old has a Hodgkins-related tumor in his...
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FDA, FTC warn of H1N1 product frauds
The good news is that H1N1 may not be as deadly as originally feared. Experts are saying that the number of cases...
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