-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990221c - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** FTC calls 'Vitamin O' ads deceptive. SPOKANE, WA (AP) The Federal Trade Commission asked a judge to bar two Washington firms from making unsubstan- tiated claims for a dietary supplement advertised as a wonder drug that can cure diseases. FTC alleges the "Vitamin O" supplement is only bottled salt water sold for $10 an ounce, and would force Rose Creek Health Products Inc. and The Staff of Life Inc. to refund customers' money. An ad in USA Today claims Vitamin O "has helped eliminate everything from breathing problems and lack of energy to life-threatening diseases" such as cancer and heart disease. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558863017-e3d : If saltwater "helped" you digest beans without farting, would you buy any? How much would you pay? Doesn't breathing "help" you fight cancer? Would you buy some of my Super.Health.Air? It'll *help* you breathe, I promise... _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The Bell Tolls For Soccer Players. LONDON (Reuters) 8 Birmingham churches claiming that soccer fans are being encouraged to put the game before God plan a noisy protest by ringing their bells during a top English club match next Sunday. Premier League side Aston Villa, which began as a Methodist church club, had been accused by ministers from the eight churches of abandoning its roots by playing a home match against Chelsea on the Sabbath. Godding or gaming - see http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990319/08/odd-soccer # Flogging and Jail For Dancing In Holy City. TEHRAN (Reuters) Six Iranians were sentenced to 18 months in jail and 228 lashes of the whip for goading people to dance in the streets at an annual festival in the conservative religious city of Oods. The six had blocked roads with bonfires and forced passers-by to dance during Chaharshanbe-Souri, an ancient Zoroastrian feast held Tuesday ahead of the Iranian new year, which starts Sunday. A hell of a good time - see http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990319/08/odd-dancers : Does your belief system proscribe certain activities on certain days? How do your deities respond to competition? If {YHWH} really objected to Sunday football, if Allah was insulted by Zoroastrian street-dancing, wouldn't a few lightning bolts clarify the situation? Do lazy deities deserve respect? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Tokyo show displays high-tech toys. TOKYO (AP) It doesn't take a rocket scientist to build a toy - or does it? A group of engineers and scientists from MIT thinks it does - and proved it by introducing some of their futur- istic playthings at the Tokyo Toy Show. How about a pair of musical sneakers that let kids compose their own tunes just by moving their feet? Or a huge furry bug that imitates a child's movements through a sensor? "Toys aren't just for playing around," said MIT media/tech professor Michael Hawley. "They're tools that can help us turn our dreams into reality." Groovy. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558858311-748 See also: http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990319/08/odd-toy : Could young Mozart have used those shoes? Would he have composed better, sooner? Do you need toys to turn dreams into reality? Doesn't putty do that? When will we have gene-modification toys? Should kids build new lifeforms? Can we stop them? How sophisticated can toys get? Is reality the ultimate? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China To Open Its 'Los Alamos' To Tourists. SHANGHAI (Reuters) China will open a prime nuclear research center to tourists, complete with a real atom bomb on display. It said the welcome mat would be put out to tourists both Chinese and foreign at the China Air Dynamics Research & Development Center, home of China's atomic and hydrogen bombs, in Mianyang in western Sichuan province. They will be able to see a real atomic bomb and watch a video tape of a nuclear explosion. http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990319/08/odd-china : Which would be better tourist attractions: NBC [nuclear/biological/chemi- cal] research labs / weapons factories; UFO research labs / crash sites; my backyard prison filled with captive ETs; a real Jurassic Park; KremlinWorld? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Mob Riots Over Bibles. JAKARTA (Reuters) A mob in Indonesia's staunchly Muslim province of Aceh went on the rampage after a group of foreigners distributed bibles. A crowd of hundreds stoned a police station where the foreigners took refuge and burned a vehicle. 4 Americans and 1 Singaporean handed out bibles in the local Acehnese language and cassettes. When the crowd realized what they were, they began chasing the four, who ran into the police station. http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990317/16/odd-bibles : Whose holy books are worth rioting over? Do Indonesian mobs have entirely too much free time? Do voices in your head make you attack police stations? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ Committee of 300: http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/300a.htm @ A-albionic Research Archive: http://a-albionic.com/a-albionic.html @ Global Emergency Alert Response: http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/ @ Psychotronics: http://www.angelfire.com/tx/AlphaTeam550/first.html @ Spylopedia: http://spylopedia.freeservers.com/master.htm @ Information clearinghouse for computer nerds: http://slashdot.org/ # Jonestown: Dismantling the Disinformation http://www.newdawnmagazine.com.au/53d.htm # CIA-DOJ Collusion in Drug-Trafficking Coverup? http://www.zolatimes.com/V3.12/pageone.html # CYBERTERRORISM: The New Face Of War: http://www.techweek.com/articles/11-2-98/cyber.htm @ A Century of Spies - Espionage and Technology: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/a_centur.htm @ Aquarius Rising? Another View of the New Age: http://www.newdawnmagazine.com.au/53b.htm @ Judaism's Best-Kept Secret is Almost Revealed: http://www.sm.org/exegesis/9512-Judaism%27ssecret.html @ Top Fifteen Lies thrown by demon L. 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