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65 Million Years With A Creationist.
Phil Hellenes tells the story of making a wish to a genie wherein he can witness a creationist observing evolution in action.
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How Gingko and Ginseng May Actually Damage Your Health and Drain Your Wallet
Cooperman of Consumer Lab.com estimates that as many as 50 percent of herbal supplements have quality problems, such as too little or too much of the advertised ingredients, contamination by substances not listed on the label, or poor disintegration in the body, which prevents their absorption. Testing by some groups has found supplements contaminated with aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, mercury and lead.
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Sheldrake-Shermer, Materialism in Science, Opening Statements
Through the months of May, June, and July of 2015, TheBestSchools.org is hosting an intensive dialogue on the nature of science between Rupert Sheldrake and Michael Shermer. This first month, the focus is on materialism in science.
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Sheldrake-Shermer, Mental Action at a Distance, Opening Statements
Through the months of May, June, and July of 2015, TheBestSchools.org is hosting an intensive Dialogue on the Nature of Science between Rupert Sheldrake and Michael Shermer. During the second month, June, the focus will be on mental action at a distance.
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Controversial Canadian Cure-All Elixir 714-X and the Debate Over Chemotherapy Alternatives
His work has been repudiated by the scientific community, but Gaston Naessens continues to claim 714-X works as an alternative to chemotherapy.
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We need to reframe alternative medicine in a new way. Like this.
We learn more about medicine every day, and the amount of new information is astounding. Once you realize how much more we know about the human body today than we did just 50 years ago, appealing to the medical expertise of ancient civilizations just doesn’t make much sense. I often hear people argue that “science doesn’t know everything.” But, in the words of Dara O’Briain, “Science knows it doesn’t know everything; otherwise, it’d stop.”
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Edward Wilson Steven Pinker Panel on Consilience
Steven Pinker gently responds to claims regarding mind-body duality
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Jim Carrey leads California’s paranoid anti-vax freakout: “This corporate fascist must be stopped”
California just outlawed personal exemptions for vaccines. Cue the "Vetoed Parenthood" backlash
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The Evolution of Alternative Medicine
When it comes to treating pain and chronic disease, many doctors are turning to treatments like acupuncture and meditation—but using them as part of a larger, integrative approach to health.
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Adults who know more about science are less afraid of eating GMOs, study says
An individual's science knowledge is a "significant factor" in whether or not he or she believes it's safe to eat genetically modified foods, a Pew Research study finds. Adults who are more "science literate" than their peers are also more comfortable with the use of bioengineered organs for human transplant as well as the consumption of foods grown with pesticides. The Pew study was intended to make sense of underlying patterns in public views about science.
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That neat and tidy map of tastes on the tongue you learned in school is all wrong
We can thank scholarly misinterpretation for the well-known but inaccurate map of the tongue. Despite the scientific evidence, the tongue map has burrowed its way into common knowledge and is still taught in many classrooms and textbooks today.
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Atheist Debates - The Bible Doesn't Say That!
When addressing various doctrinal positions or claims associated with the Bible, some atheists over-reach...exaggerating or misrepresenting what the text says or which interpretation of that text is most likely accurate or common...and so do Christians. How do we address claims in the Bible when it's all a matter of interpretation and context?
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Why is Chopra ageing?
I couldn't resist this satirical photo, gleaned from Facebook by reader Jente: Can't he remain immortal—or at least not age—by just thinking correctly about the issue?
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The Anti-Vaxx Movement and the Cult of American Individualism
It doesn’t matter how many works of Ayn Rand you throw at communicable diseases—they will always be communist by nature. For decades, advancements in modern medicine have been slowly chipping away at some of humanity’s most brutal diseases. On October 26, 1977, for example, the last naturally occurring case of smallpox was diagnosed, and today […]
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Anti-Vaxxer Logic
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I can recognize a bad argument when I see it
Shall I give you an example? Here’s one I’ve actually heard from atheists: “Christians don’t really believe in God, because the god idea is stupid. They only go to church because they’re afraid of death/need social reassurance/were brainwashed.” Another permutation of that is that since the god idea is stupid, the only people who believe in a god are the really stupid people.
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Why Don't Scientists Fear Hell?
"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
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Anti-vaccine course brings U of T one step closer to offering a masters of pseudoscience
The university just released a report clearing an anti-vaccine course taught by a homeopath
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Hell, by Robert G. Ingersoll
Warm word on the cheerful and comforting doctrine of eternal damnation from Col. Ingersoll's American secular lectures.
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Meta-Meditation: A Skeptic Meditates on Meditation
The media are touting meditation’s potential for treating everything from anxiety to AIDS, but strong, objective evidence is lacking. According to one estimate, as many as 10 percent of Americas have tried meditation. Meditation “has gone viral,” The Los Angeles Times reports. Harvard Business Review notes that “mindfulness is close to taking on cult status in the business world.”
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