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shamsham1090Posted: Sep 14, 2011 - 21:15
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Is fracking safe?
What do you guys think?
Tobacco Cancer Bombshell or Anti vaccine Hysteria?

There are few technologies today quite so popularly disliked today as fracking, short for hydraulic fracturing, the practice of pumping high-pressure water into natural gas reserves deep underground to break up the rock and make the gas easier to mine. Fracking has been harshly criticized all around the world as dangerous, and has even been banned in a number of countries. There are charges that fracking uses toxic chemicals which contaminate ground water supplies; that it causes earthquakes; that it's killing endangered species; that tap water in fracking areas contains so much methane that it can actually burn; and that mysterious illnesses have resulted from the poisonous chemicals it pumps underground. Sound scary? It should. But how much of it is true? Fracking is a perfect place to turn our skeptical eye.

Read and Listen to Entire Post
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4275
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Agent MattPosted: Sep 14, 2011 - 21:55
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Genuine American Monster

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This was a good episode.
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shamsham1090Posted: Sep 14, 2011 - 22:13
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Here's a Stuff They Don't Want You to Know Conspiracy Episode
Scary when emotion wins over science


http://podcasts.howstuffworks.com/hsw/podcasts/conspiracy/2011-06-03-conspiracy-fracking.mp4?_kip_ipx=322704737-1316056281
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Wolf BirdPosted: Sep 15, 2011 - 00:22
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I thought this skeptoid was a good one too. My favorites often are the ones that look at controversial issues. I always learn something.
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KeppPosted: Sep 15, 2011 - 06:35
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Listened to this at work yesterday, good stuff.
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Wolf BirdPosted: Sep 15, 2011 - 14:56
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Erik TheRed doesn't like it!

"HEY RETOID...ARE YOU REALLY GOING TO TRY AND TELL EVERYONE THAT FRACKING IS A GOOD THING ? ~REALLY~ ARE YOU REALLY THAT RIDICULOUS....LOL, ACTUALLY YOU ARE BEYOND RIDICULOUS...WHAT ARE THE WORDS...DIABOLICALLY PATHETIC."

"NEXT RETOID DUNNING WILL BE TELLING HIS BRAINWASHED FLOCK THAT GMOs ARE NUTRITIOUS...AND HIS MIND CONTROLLED PATSIES WILL BELIEVE HIM."

http://www.facebook.com/briandunningfanpage/posts/264964823525101
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KeppPosted: Sep 15, 2011 - 21:10
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^That guy is insane.
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