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Thanks For Caring Xbox Live!

Monday, July 5th, 2010

I have been on xbox live for about 4 years now. I play honest. I don’t cheat. I report cheaters. Can’t stand them! I have put up with xbox live and the 3 or 4 times I had to send my console in to be repaired. I still used it, I played often. I love the Call Of Duty games, it’s all I play. That is until today.

I was just online with friends, in the middle of a game when I am suddenly disconnected. I think that’s odd. I just paid for a full year again last month. And just before I did that I added a full year worth of one month memberships. So I was good for two years! So why could have been disconnected? Bad internet? Nope, my account was suspended!

Why was it suspended, because in my bio I list a website were you can go and out people that cheat at Call Of Duty. I guess xbox live has no problems with cheaters. I guess all the times I reported people for cheating meant nothing.

I called xbox live to resolve this issue and was told there was nothing they could do right now. That I would have wait the two days of my suspension and then make a post in their forum. Well, that was not acceptable to me. I play fair and honest, I never cheat and they are gonna turn around and treat me like a common cheater? I don’t think so!

So billing transferred me to someone else, they couldn’t do anything so they transferred me back to billing so I could close my account. I asked that I be refunded the 49 bucks I just paid for year long subscription. A very cheery lady happily canceled my account and told me my money would be returned to me in 3 days.

Not once did any of these customer service reps every try to keep me as a customer. No offer was made, no apologies, just they can’t do anything and will refund my money. I mean, I am paying them for a service and this is the way I get treated? Sorry, you can try that with 12 year old little Johnny but not with me!

What a shame, I was just going to buy the new xbox console in a couple of months. Basically their two day suspension just cost them about 500 bucks! Good job Microsoft. You have irritated me so severely that my next computer just might be a MAC! I hate MAC’s but, I am so disappointed in MS right now, I just don’t think I could spend another dime on them without a serious apology and some kinda offer to make this right. Until that happens, I will make sure that everyone knows about the treatment I received from this.

Hayley Williams of Paramore shows her boobies!

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Yes, there’s nip slips and see thrus and upskirts and it goes on and on. But, when a little cutie like Hayley Williams shows it off on purpose, well, that’s just classic!

Hayley Williams

Horror Movie Essentials!

Monday, April 26th, 2010

I have been a fan of genre for as long as I can remember. When I was a small child, for 3 years I lived on Okinawa. My dad was in the army and worked for FEN. He was a DJ and really popular at the time. Now, I was really, really young when we lived there. From the age of 4 till I was 7 and to this day I am convinced that I can remember each and every day I was there. It was an amazing experience. I am 40 now and that time frame was really influential to me. When my dad got the chance, he would have them play “I Was A Teenage Werewolf” for me. So basically, it would get put on the schedule and played. It was cool. Imagine talking to someone at say ABC and saying, “Hey, can you make the Late Night Movie this Saturday ‘Jaws’?” They say ok, and come Saturday night the movie is playing on ABC. I loved that movie and it really is what got me hooked on horror movies I believe.

Now I don’t claim to have seen every horror movie and there’s a great many classics I am sure that I know that I have missed and someday will soon see, just because, to call yourself a horror fan, there are certain movies you just have to see.

Watching this list isn’t going to make you an all knowing fan. That’s just not what this list is intended for. I guess the best way to describe a good use for this list is as a tool. Say for example, you’ like someone and you know they love horror movies. Watching these movies will at least give you a good starting point for a conversation. Watch them and then feel free to start up that conversation with them and see what they like. See, I just made the move for you! I know, I’m a giver.

Oh and one more thing, this is just a basic list, I am gonna leave off a lot of classic horror movies because as of right now, what we’re trying to do is just introduce you to the more common of the horror movies so you should be able to relate to almost any horror fan.

Let’s start first with some classics.  I’m talking some old school here.  Dracula, The Mummy, Frankenstein and The Wolf Man.  These Universal classics are a must.  Now, they are all in black & white of course but so worth it.  And, as you go through these movies in the order I am suggesting you will be able to see how horror  films have changed over the years.

House of Wax with Vincent Price.  When first released it was in 3-D.  Never saw it in 3-D but it’s a fun one. Vincent Price operates a wax museum whose wax statues look eerily life like!
The Creature From The Black Lagoon. This is actually probably my favorite horror movie of all time.  The over dramatic music, the look of the creature, and Julie Adams oh god I’ve had a crush on her practically my whole life!  It’s basically about a group of researchers who head down the Amazon River in search of the rest a fossil one of them found of a webbed hand that is of unknown origin in the development of man.  Oddly enough this one was also originally filmed in 3-D but it’s not needed, it plays great without it!
Invasion of the Body Snatchers. This classic is all about paranoia but it’s like they, just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re still not out to get you!  Little by little it seems that people are changing over night.  Something’s happening to them!  It’s soon discovered how and then it becomes a frantic race against time, them and even ourselves!
The Blob! Bad special effects make this worth watching.  And, really I shouldn’t say, I should say fun.  The title says it’s all.  A meteor hits in a small town.  Someone touches it and this blob of red jello looking stuff attaches to them.  It keeps growing until there’s nothing left of the person. The more the Blob consumes the larger it gets!
The Fly. Another Vincent Price classic movie!  A scientist, an experiment gone wrong and a chilling ending.
The House on Haunted Hill. Vincent Price again!  He really is the king of horror movies.   This movie is best watched home alone, at night, in the dark.  Vincent Price has invited several people to spend the night in his haunted house.  He’s offered each of the 10,000 dollars if they make it till sunrise.  The house has a history and it’s one scare after another until the truth is finally revealed and you won’t see it coming!
Psycho. Now honestly, I found the movie almost boring.  However, Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates is iconic.  His acting was just perfect.  He made every moment he was on screen believable.  If you’re in the mood for a good story that makes you think and question it, you will love it.  There’s not a lot of action.  There’s some scares in it and a lot of suspense filled with a lot of creepiness.  But, when you’re kid and you want to go see Star Wars again and can’t be Psycho is going to be on TV, well, Psycho is way boring.
Night of the Living Dead. George Romero.  Not the first zombie movie ever made as many think.  I don’t know even know if it was the best.  But, for the time, it had a black man in the lead role.  He was the one who kept calm when the white people were freaking out. For goofy concept like the dead rising, he sure made it real and scary and creepy!
The Exorcist. I saw this on TV for the first time when I maybe 8 or 9.  I was sitting in the living room with my parents.  My grandfather was in his room watching Battle of the Network Stars.  I don’t want to give anything away, but I made to the head spinning scene and I just looked at my parents and said, “I don’t think I should be watching this.”  I got and walked down the hall to grandpa’s room and watched TV with him.  For two nights after I had trouble sleeping.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Now we’re in to the 70’s and there’s several worth seeing but I think I will only list a few.  People to this day think the movie is based on a real story and it is not.  It’s all fake.  Never happened, just a scary movie about a man in a mask killing teens.
The Amityville Horror. This movie I found to be really scary.  It was supposed to be based on a true story.  Many people think it still is.  It was all a lie used in a defense to get someone off of murder charges.  But, even knowing that, it has some truly creepy scenes to it.
Halloween & Halloween II. Amazing music and sound that actually caries the film only it’s done so well that you don’t realize it.  The story revolves around Laurie Strode.  A high school girl who is being stalked by Michael Meyers, and escaped mental patient.
Friday the 13th. Camp Counselors arrive at Camp Crystal Lake a week early to help set up the camp that’s re-opening for the first time in a few decades.   The counselors soon loon that the lake had been closed years ago because bad things kept happening every time the camp opened.  The bad things are about to start happening again.
An American Werewolf in London. This changed forever what was possible in horror movies.  Here we see a man actually change in to a wolf!  This is years before CGI.  Real special effects and great acting make you believe what you’re seeing is real.  It’s a love story, a comedy and some gruesome horror to make this one of the best horror movies of all time!
Poltergeist. A great supernatural story.  Great acting and just a plain good time being scared.  It’s a story of a salesman who moves in to a new home.  He works for the company that built the homes.  More developments are planned in the area.  But, soon, strange things start to happen.  There’s a stormy night and the youngest daughter somehow goes missing.  Taken to the other side.   Now the parents with some help have to get her back!
The Thing. This movie again takes special effects to new levels.  It’s bloody!  It’s a remake of a 50’s classic and to this day you can watch it and be blown away by the special effects.  The story is about a research team in Antarctica.  The team is disturb from the boredom one day by the sound of gunshots.  A helicopter is chasing a dog on the ground.  They’re shooting at it.  The copter crashes.  The team investigates and soon they realize something is effecting them and it’s not a good thing!
A Nightmare on Elm St. An original concept for a horror movie and a classic killer is born!  A high school is having bad dreams, someone in them is chasing after her.  Her friends are dying in their sleep and whatever it is, after her!
Scream. A new twist on horror movies.  Sure there’s teens being killed by a psycho but this a mystery to. It’s fun, witty and doesn’t take itself too seriously. Sidney Prescott  is having problems dealing with her mother’s brutal murder one year ago, and now her friend Casey  has also been killed. The list of suspects is long, but Sidney’s boyfriend Billy is a prime suspect. News reporter Gail Weathers and Deputy Dewey Riley investigate and look at clues that may link the killer to Sidney’s mother’s murder.
The Blair Witch Project. It started the whole people video taping themselves craze in feature films.  I loved the movie, found it really interesting and scary though a lot of people didn’t like it.  For an anthropology class, three students hiked into the woods near Burkittesville, Maryland, to investigate a ghost story about the Blair witch. This particular witch is rumored to be responsible for mysterious disappearances, murders, and apparitions. The group got lost in the woods and disappeared. One year later all that was found was their film footage.
28 Days Later. A different look at zombie movies.  A virus has turned people into murderous zombies that have wiped out most of England’s population. Now, 28 days after the virus attack, a few of the survivors gather in Manchester, England, to save Earth’s remaining human population.
Shaun of the Dead. It’s horror movie but it’s more of a comedy.  It’s just flat out funny.  No description is needed it’s just great.
Final Destination. Alex has a premonition about his high-school group’s flight to Paris and, along with some of his friends, is able to get off the plane before it leaves. True to his premonition, the plane explodes shortly after takeoff. But Death does not like to be cheated, and the students saved by Alex start dying, one-by-one. A slightly different take on the teen slasher genre.
The Grudge. An American nurse working in Tokyo, Karen is plagued by a supernatural curse “the grudge,” which has traveled from person to person and then has killed each victim. It will continue until someone achieves freedom from it while still alive. Will Karen be the one to free herself from its control and bring an end to the curse?
Saw. A serial killer named “Jigsaw Killer” by the police is on the loose, and his latest victims, Adam and Dr. Lawrence Gordon awaken to find themselves chained to pipes in a warehouse bathroom with a dead body between them. They are told through an electronically produced voice that the only escape route is for one of them to kill the other within the next eight hours.



And with that, we come to end of the list.  It was difficult.  So many movies not on the list.  Alien, Aliens to name a few.  Must see movies that didn’t get a mention.  But, again this list is a starting point.  A way to start your journey in to horror movies.  Seeing these films will at least allow you a place to go in a conversation.  A reference point, if you will.  It will at least give you an idea of the various types of horror out there and from there you can better find the kind of horror you like.

Beth Riesgraf Nude!

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

Last week I started watching season one of Leverage on DVD.  Love the show so far.  I am about halfway through the season and from episode I have been in love with Beth Riesgraf.  If you don’t know, she plays Parker on the show.  It was love at first site and I find that odd.  I’m not a big fan of blondes, more of  a brunette kinda guy.  However, I just can’t stop looking at her.  Her smile breaks my heart.  Her expressions are priceless.  I’ve fallen hard for her.

So tonight while I sit and lose game after game of poker on Full Tilt I thought I would look up her profile on IMDB and see what else she has been in.  Mostly TV shows.  Then I see something she did back in 2000.  “The Summer of My Deflowering”. An independent work she did. Then as I read up on it, I discover that she was nude in it. Being the sad, sad loser that I am, of course I had to find this video. Well, I did!

So for all her fans with no life like myself, let me save you the time looking for some screen captures. I proudly present Beth Riesgraf Nude!!!

Beth Riesgraf Nude!

Beth Riesgraf Nude!

Beth Riesgraf Boobies!

Beth Riesgraf Boobies!

Leno’s Back at The Tonight Show and I Didn’t Watch!

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Jay LonoAs we all know Leno resumed hosting NBC’s The Tonight Show after the network decided to fuck over Conan.  Well, I for one was pissed off about the whole situation.  NBC sure has some morons running that place.  However, after Conan’s last show and his comments about, “please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere.”  Well, I decided that I would still continue to watch NBC and I might even give Leno a chance.

Of course it was a few days later that they announced that there were canceling the Bonnie Hunt Show.  I don’t often watch that show but I know many who do including my own mother who was heartbroken over the cancellation.  Once again, I was disgusted by NBC.  Then there was the Olympics.  The Olympics finally in an American time zone!  I was thrilled, I Conan Says Goodbyewould get to see all the action live and not tape delayed!  Nope!  NBC fucked that up to!  Seems it was too much to give the folks in the Pacific Time Zone, (the same time zone the Olympics were in), a chance to watch anything live.  No, they had to tape delay just about everything! Morons!

But, still I was willing to give NBC a chance and still maybe even Leno.  That was until I saw his new ad promoting the Tonight Show.  Leno sporting around in his classic car to The Beatles, “Back Where You Belong.”  Really?  That was his bright idea to make everyone feel welcome to his show?  To basically say in a song, “Hey, I’m back and I should have never left, sorry having to deal with Conan for 8 months but I am back now!”  Well, that was a complete, “SCREW YOU!” to Conan and his fans.

When The Tonight Show finally aired again after the Olympics, I didn’t watch it, I saw that it was on and turned on The Discovery Channel instead.  So once again, I have to say sorry to Fallon and Carson but I won’t be seeing much of you anymore and you can thank Leno’s ego and NBC’s stupidity for it!  And, Conan, I am sorry as well.  I tried not to be cynical, I really did but NBC late night go fuck itself.

On a side note, I was ordering some DVD’s.  As I have ranted before, I tend to watch TV shows on DVD instead when they air on TV for many reasons.  Some new Law & Orders were out as well as seasons, 10 thru 12 of ER, I have the prior seasons on DVD.  Instead I ordered a few seasons of CSI NY and CSI Miami.  Sure I will probably get the L&O’s in the future, but right now, I am just too pissed to give NBC any of my hard earned money and I urge everyone out there to do the same.

You see, these idiots only hear complaints.  Most people don’t write to praise anything, but when things piss them off, well, the rants do flow.  So rant!  Complain, don’t think for a second it doesn’t matter.  You can make a difference and those that say you can’t, do so because all they know how to do is fail.

I guess NBC is short for Nothing But Crap.

Thanks to NBC for FUCKING UP the Olympics Experience!

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Now, the Olympics aren’t over yet but from day one NBC has done everything possible to fuck up the Olympic experience for everyone.  First the opening ceremonies and they don’t show them live in the pacific time zone.  We had to watch them tape delayed.  Why?  Who fuckin knows?  I mean the Olympics are happening in this time zone for god sakes!  Then as I am waiting for the opening ceremonies to start I get an alert from CNN letting me know that Wayne Gretzky lit the flame.  So not only do I know who the big surprise person is, when it happens I don’t really care because I already know.

Since the Olympics are staying in one place as they always do for each Olympics.  I tune in to watch this afternoon because they’re still in the same time zone and, Ellen is on? ! Now, don’t get me wrong, I love Ellen.  But, the fucking Olympics are happening and NBC is showing Ellen!  What’s on after Ellen?  Not the Olympics!  It’s Martha Stewart!

Lindsey Vonn FlagI was really excited about today’s Olympics, I wanted to see how Lindsey Vonn would would do in her event.  Of course NBC thinks showing Ellen and Martha are more important than the Olympics.  My email goes off and I take a look, it’s another CNN alert.  “Injured Lindsey Vonn wins gold medal!”  Great!  Thanks NBC!  Sure would be nice to watch this shit live like the rest of the fucking world!  So thanks NBC for once again taking something so simple and completely fucking it up!

I can’t get over how much I used to love NBC.  However, it seems making excuses for their stupidity and ignorance isn’t working, so bashing their dumb ass every time they do something stupid I guess is the only thing left.  Maybe someone will eventually wake up over there and get their head out of their ass.  I doubt it, but one can hope!

Conan O’Brien To Leave The Tonight Show!

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Well, it’s official!  Team Conan has lost, Leno has won.  It’s a sad, sad day and just another sign that NBC, the once great network is now total shit!  I personally am going to watch Conan’s last show tomorrow night.  After that, I am done with NBC.   So Ellen, Bonnie, Jimmy and Carson I am sorry but I refuse to watch a network that would do something so damn stupid.

I always buy the Law & Order DVD’s when they come out, I love 30 Rock.  I will miss those shows but I am just absolutely disgusted with NBC right now I will no longer be purchasing these shows.  I have been watching Conan from day one!  He is part of NBC, how they could do this is beyond me.  It just shows that the executives at NBC are just fucking stupid!  These fucking morons should be fired for lack or creativity.

I once took my parents to see The Tonight Show with Leno.  It is a great memory.  That show had Elton John and Billy Joel.  We sat right next to the stage they performed on.  What a great show it was.  Leno has always impressed me as a humble, goodhearted man.  I can see now, he is not.

I am hoping Conan takes a job on another station and continues his show.  I hope that it starts specifically at 11:35 pm Monday thru Friday and they call it, The Real Tonight Show!

As I understand it, Conan is getting something like 30 million for leaving and another 12 million for his staff as severance pay.  Hope they all join him for  his new show next September.

I have been supportive of NBC and it’s failed ratings in the past but no longer.  Now, I am gonna take pride in watching the network continue with their idiotic decisions in the future.  And, when they are down, I will kick them.  What a bunch of backstabbing bastards that network has turned out to be.  Shame on them.

Carrie Prejean Nip Slip!

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

The power of Christ compels you to look at these photos!  Nothing like seeing a Christian hypocrite sucking face in public while her hot nipple pops out to say hi.  But, can you blame them, it’s Hawaii!  I am sure they wanted to show off  since the boob job.

Nice to see the thoughtful and caring man, boyfriend Kyle Boller, that she’s with took the time to tell her that her nipple is trying to escape.  Oh wait, he didn’t.  He just enjoyed the view.  Thanks guy!  Though this makes you a scumbag, we appreciate the view and thanks for sharing.

Carrie Prejean

Carrie Prejean

Carrie Prejean

Carrie Prejean

Carrie Prejean

Carrie Prejean

My Rant to NBC, Jay Leno And Conan O’Brien

Friday, January 15th, 2010

I understand this must be a trying time for all of you at NBC.  NBC has it’s failed ratings.  Leno’s show is failing and he wants his old time slot back.  Conan is doin ok and getting screwed.  Here’s the deal. Leno made a bad decision years ago when he said he wanted to retire.  He changed his mind but too late to keep his show.  NBC made a bad decision by offering him a 10pm slot.  Now, NBC is making another bad decision by offering Leno the 11:35 time slot.

Ok, here’s the deal NBC.  If you’re an executive at NBC and involved in any way with this debacle it should be you that is leaving and not Leno and not Conan.  Several years ago when Leno made his bonehead decision to retire, you should have thrown money at him until he said he wouldn’t retire.  That didn’t happen of course so deal with it!

Leno, it’s over, you blew it.  You had your chance and you walked away from it.  Step down already.  You take that slot from Conan and I will have lost all respect for you and I won’t watch your new show.

NBC executives, you have got to be the worst batch of execs in TV history.  Grow some balls and cancel his show and don’t offer him Conan’s spot.  What you should do if you had any brains at all, you don’t so I’m gonna tell you.   Hire him for season specials and so on.  Give him an Academy Awards show like Barbara Walters on ABC.  there’s nothing challenging that show so everyone stays up and watches it.  Well, do something different and better.  All she does is  interview 3 celeb and makes at least one of the cry.  Whoop Dee Doo!  Give Jay a show, make it live at the Governor’s Ball or something and interview some celebs live.  Make it an event like her Walter’s show.  Hire some creative people and come up and idea.  Give Leno a series of shows throughout the show and make them special events that people want to see.  Do something that’s never been done before with them.  Make it something no one else has.  Be creative!

Mr. O’Brien, I am sorry you’re going through this.  I know you’re getting screwed in this.  I know you care about The Tonight Show.  I can only say this…  Don’t give it up!  I understand your desire to keep the show unmolested and in its current time slot.  But, I think there’s something more to consider here.  The people love, no one wants you to go.  You can go to Fox or some other station but it’s not gonna work.  It might last a season or two.  But, NBC and CBS have late night TV locked up.  No other show has lasted anywhere else.  Not even Arseno could make it.  He was doing so well but eventually people stick with the comfort food they’ve grown up with and NBC and CBS beat him down.

You are comfort food Mr. O’Brien.  Late night won’t be the same without you.  So yes, you’re getting screwed but if you leave, no one wins.  You stay, in a few years Leno will retire again.  Your time slot is back!  You leave and unlike Leno, there’s no second chances. Good luck in whatever you decide.

My Take On Global Warming!

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Global WarmingI tend to agree with scientist that there are signs of global warming. But, for many it has become like a religion. No matter what facts are presented to contrary, pro global warming people dismiss them. But, to sit there and say that every scientist agrees with global warming is an outright lie. It is not a fact, a fact is 2 + 2 is 4. Global Warming will become a fact when it is proven to be and it cannot be reasonably denied.

I have read a couple of books on it and a few magazine articles. I do not claim to be an expert at all. I have put a reasonable amount of time in to it and I believe it is at least enough to offer an opinion on the subject.

These are my concerns. We have no idea what the fuck we are talking about when it comes to global warming. Even those that believe it is happening can’t agree on how to fix it. This is serious problem because about every 10 thousand years we have an ice age. It’s been like 12 thousand years or since the last one. We are overdue. It would be nice to avoid this but what happens if we do? The earth has a process, interrupt it and what will that do? But, let’s say stopping it is a good thing. So how do we do it? Is it too much c02 or is it actually too much or not enough water vapor? These things are so precise, that the smallest error can mean catastrophe.

People want to cut back on c02 admissions but these are the same guys that complained about the hole in the ozone 15 years ago. Then end was coming they claimed. If we don’t take immediate action we’re all doomed, they said. We took some action, we banned some hair spray containers some auto manufactures changed the way they did AC in cars but the scientists and alarmists claimed it wasn’t enough. But, guess what, the hole is no longer there, it closed up all by itself. Even the scientists who said it wasn’t enough seem to all admit that the efforts we took really were not what caused the hole to close itself. They don’t know how it closed or why, they just know that it did.

Now that, that terror has been averted, global warming is the new battle cry. Is it worth study, absolutely. But, we need real studies, real facts, and real double blind experiments that can be repeated. Then we need real solutions that can stand real scrutiny.

I am reminded of the mountain glaciers in South America. Global warming activists were all too willing to use them as proof as global warming. A lot of them were melting. Ice that was providing water enough to last some local tribes three hundred years or more. Turns out with the caps of these mountains melting that it might not last 25 more years. Tragic! However, it turns out, the melting of the caps had nothing to with “global warming”. The areas around these mountains used to be lush forest areas that have now been devastated by deforestation. The tree huggers were right. Cutting down trees is bad, Its just that it had nothing to do c02 emissions. What it turns out to be is that those surrounding forests kept the heat in. That dark green jungles absorbed that heat and moisture. Once it was gone, that heat rose and the ice on the mountain tops began to melt. Once again, the global warming people were wrong.

This is why it is so important to study, research and do double blind tests. There’s a reason why the FDA requires all drug companies to use double blind tests. It prevents junk science. It keeps people honest. Right now there is no double blind anything in the scientific community. Any scientist can make any claim he wants and publish it. People will believe him or not but as for requiring actual proof, it’s not really required. I mean Stephen Hawking, the smartest man in the world, now admits he was wrong in what he had believed in for the past 20 years or more. We need more than just “peer review” and that’s all scientists have right now.

I am sorry but until they can present a clean and undeniable fact that cannot be reasonably argued than we are wasting our time. Not every scientists who doesn’t believe in global warming is a crackpot. I do believe it’s a serious, what I am saying here is that we do not treat it serious enough. We need unbiased studies and research that can stand the scrutiny of peer review and double blind tests. We need not opinion but true fact. Just because shit is melting in a few places isn’t proof of anything more than that shit is melting in a few places. There is significant evidence that ice is growing in other areas but this fact is all too often ignored. We need real science here, not the pseudo religious cults we have now.