Britain Defends the Enlightenment
Despite the ongoing schism of the Anglican church, which I wrote about in my last post, I'm happy to see that there's still plenty of good sense and reason in the U.K. One outstanding example is this...
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• Despite the good sense shown by the British Medical Association in lambasting homeopathy at their annual conference last month, the UK National Health Service has announced that it will still pay for...
View ArticleThe Language of God: Science Works!
The Language of God, Chapter 5 By B.J. Marshall The tagline of this books is "A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief." I've seen that the central thesis of the book is trying to harmonize religion...
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• Witchcraft is now a recognized profession in Romania, subjecting its practitioners to income tax. Witches who are unhappy about this are responding pretty much like you'd expect. • A female activist...
View ArticleSwimming in a Sea of Pseudoscience
This past weekend, I was out at brunch when I saw a rack of free magazines in the restaurant's foyer. I picked out one of them, which as it turned out was a promotional brochure and schedule for...
View ArticleAnti-Vaccination Fever Rages On
After washing your hands, vaccination is probably the simplest and best medical advance in human history. But in spite of overwhelming evidence of its efficacy at preventing death and disease,...
View ArticlePopular Delusions: Electrosensitivity
It’s a fact that allergies are becoming a bigger and bigger problem in Western society. An ever-widening array of foods – milk, eggs, peanuts, shellfish – have become dangerous to many people,...
View ArticleLetter-Writing Wednesday: Vaccines for Minors
The Unitarian Universalist church I attend has a daycare room for young children during services. I was looking through the old books there when I noticed this one: This is like a relic from another...
View ArticleHow Religion Incubates Anti-Vax Paranoia
Religion has always been a handy excuse people give for why they should disregard the best evidence we have.
View ArticleLicensed Astrologers
By James A. Haught The solar system is relatively flat, occupying an imaginary plane in the sky called the ecliptic. Planets waver 8 degrees on each side of the centerline, in a belt called the zodiac....
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