@CatRSQ

"Animal testing has to go. It's outdated and unneeded."

That's a pretty sweeping statement. Sure you are right that many types of animal testing ARE outdated and uneeded (such as testing cosmetics), but animal testing is a crucial part of the medical industry in developing new, more effective medicines, and establishing their safeness.

...except that when you use natural (but still poisonous) pesticides, you have to use up to 7 times more to achieve the same level of effectiveness.

“I’m sure they think I’m crazy — a crazy lady on the subway.”

Now why would they do that?

Here's a pretty good, quick rundown of organic food myths by Brian Dunning of Skeptoid:

http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4019

It also means they can charge a hell of a lot extra.

I donated about a month ago. Yaaay!

Dogs are amazing animals. I miss my boxer :(

The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (Oliver Sacks) wouldn't have been able to see this face, no matter how hard he tried.

@ Ted

I didn't mean to be snarky.

My point was that while many of the reported "apparitions" of Jesus or Mary (like the cheese sandwich or "cheesus") just look like a blob, or sometimes a figure or face (but not really that of Jesus of Mary), the "face" here really does look like Jesus! Well Jesus as the Vatican portrays him anyway.

I'm surprised the Jesus brigade hasn't claimed this as a miracle apparition.

@ timm

No doubt you will add this obscure method of psychological treatment from half a century ago that was never accepted or endorsed by any official psychological body to your collection of examples as to why all psychology/psychiatry is an evil scam and Xenu is all powerful.

I'd just like to add that I can however understand why people fall for these sorts of trickery. I'm a skeptic and personally I have not yet encountered enough evidence to suggest that any paranormal claims I've encountered are genuine examples of the paranormal. But that doesn't stop my mind from freaking out when I'm home alone and hear bumps in the night.

I agree with Dougall. What sort of evidence is the claim that the family seemed to not posess enough knowledge of chemical compounds? What's to stop them from lying? And who's to say that a family friend didn't do it?

The author of the linked article clearly hasn't done their research, leaving out the truly damning evidence.

"Ramos Perera, president of the Spanish Society of Parapsychology, stated that it was found that La Pava, the first and most famous of the Bélmez faces, had coloration and deduced it had been painted:

"Through infrared photography we saw that this one had added pigmentation [over the original appearance], and even the paint brush bristles could be perceived. Of course, after that we had no doubts it had been painted".

http://theunexplainedmysteries.com/faces-of-belmez.html

What's amusing is that the pic here is the best example of the faces. The others are even more poorly drawn.

Clearly the family that resided in the home did not seem to possess knowledge of how to draw a decent face either.

If they slipped this under my door, it would probably trigger the motion sensors of my security system and the house alarm would go off. Oh the irony.

Cognitive dicksonance.