Santa Poll on JREF

I've been noticing a lot of Christmas buzz lately, and it's not even summer, let alone the Fall, let alone winter, let alone December. On Facebook for example, all the little Christmas apps are up and being sent back and forth; I've received dozens of "gifts" for my tree, invitations to join so and so under the mistletoe, etc. Over on the biggest and best of the skeptoid message boards, the JREF, is a new poll: ">"Is Santa real in your household?" Oy. Most say no, a few say yes. To be expected. A little scary, some of the posts, on what they've chosen to tell their kids. One said she didn't want to get into a thing with her relative over having to do "tooth fairy duty" -- sigh. By the way, don't you think the vintage Santa looks like Amazing Randi?

Article: Ten Phenomena That the Scientific Community Can't Explain

Ten Phenomena That the Scientific Community Can't Explain contains probably the usual and expected items. Among the categories: UFOs. Science can't explain them, and no one else can either.

In popular culture, the concept of UFO is usually taken to mean a spaceship flown by aliens.

I'm not so sure it's fair to put it all on "popular culture" while ignoring the fact that the pathological mega skeptic crowd has latched onto the false idea that UFOs translates to little green men from space. By using this tactic -- "Everyone knows that when someone (anyone but them that is) talks about UFOs, they mean aliens" -- the discussion ensures that authentic investigation into UFOs never happens. (thanks to Lesley at The Debris Field for link.)