... I have just read a very good refutation of the Sphinx nonsense. "Riddles of the Sphinx", Paul Jordan, Sutton Publishing Ltd, Phoenix Mill, ...
Barry Williams
skeptics@...
Oct 1, 1998 8:08 am
7703
I neglected to cross-post this to the list, sending it only to Amanda. Better late than never? WD "Bill" Loughman Berkeley, California USA wdlkhl@... ... ...
Wm D Loughman
wdlkhl@...
Oct 1, 1998 8:32 am
7704
... Just what _is_ a macrobiotic diet? Does it mean that you eat only large organisms? If so, I come close without even trying. (Okay, I'll admit that...
The Textbook League
textbook@...
Oct 1, 1998 8:44 am
7705
Sorry for this message but I unfortunately lost a lot of messages and I'm unable to retrieve explanations how to unsubscribe from this mailing list. As a...
Patrick-Julien Germain
pjg@...
Oct 1, 1998 9:05 am
7706
... Bill, And I am sorry you choose to be insulting. Are you always so quick to take offense when someone simply takes your words at face value? I don't...
Samantha Atkins
samantha@...
Oct 1, 1998 9:43 am
7707
Bill, I do not laugh at things that really are not funny. If you choose to hide behind laughter even when you shouldn't then that is your business. But at ...
Samantha Atkins
samantha@...
Oct 1, 1998 9:53 am
7708
... Please don't be, I take my cue from Randi. He is fun! Are you always so quick to take ... Quicker. Samantha you have got to cheer up, life should be fun! ...
Bill Wallace
btech@...
Oct 1, 1998 10:23 am
7709
... Help me out then my friend, what is funny to you, please tell me one joke or incident that really made you laugh hard lately, you do laugh don't you? If...
Bill Wallace
btech@...
Oct 1, 1998 10:24 am
7710
I thought England's post-secondary student numbers doubled in the last decade to 30%+, but on the continent in most countries it was 50% + for some time. The...
Eva Durant
Eva.Durant@...
Oct 1, 1998 11:29 am
7711
... There may be real legitimate content in the articles, that I don't know. I am only pointing out my own personal reaction to the title. I have enough...
Wayne Dawson
dawson@...
Oct 1, 1998 1:06 pm
7712
... Also, if any of you recall waaaay back when he first took office, the White House doctor quit shortly thereafter because Clinton wanted the doc to inject...
David Bloomberg
David.Bloomberg@...
Oct 1, 1998 1:27 pm
7713
In a msg on <Sep 30 21:51>, skeptic@... writes: s> Why is Randi or Kurtz not attacking this NIH at the source then, the s> clinton...
David Bloomberg
David.Bloomberg@...
Oct 1, 1998 1:28 pm
7714
... I assume this is a flippant humorous remark. On a serious note though, please consider a recent article in Nature..... vol 394 p. 719 (1998). It is...
Wayne Dawson
dawson@...
Oct 1, 1998 1:39 pm
7715
... And it would be in character to, what, say ``Yes, you men have done a wonderful job defending us from other men and all, but this bit about sky net has me...
Michael D. Sofka
sofkam@...
Oct 1, 1998 1:51 pm
7716
... Keep in mind that the posted speeches date from nine years ago. The figures may have been different then. -- James H.G. Redekop | tzoq@... Web...
James H.G. Redekop
tzoq@...
Oct 1, 1998 2:42 pm
7717
... Well, that's ANOTHER inaccuracy in the TV reporting, then. I'd always heard her referred to as a psychologist. *************** Regards, Dave Palmer...
Dave Palmer
dpalmer@...
Oct 1, 1998 2:47 pm
7718
... A couple of months ago, I took a mentalism class taught by Glenn and Francis Falkenstein, and they taught us the rudiments of their second sight act, and a...
Dave Palmer
dpalmer@...
Oct 1, 1998 3:06 pm
7719
Wm D Loughman had asked about scams directed at the, eh, golden years generation. Since my wife is a Professor of social work with an interest in geriatrics,...
Michael D. Sofka
sofkam@...
Oct 1, 1998 3:12 pm
7720
... And anyway, when the OAM was being proposed, many of us foolishly assumed that it would act like a REAL scientific establishment, and give altmed claims a...
Dave Palmer
dpalmer@...
Oct 1, 1998 3:14 pm
7721
... I take it that t it's a little more sophisticated than the one you read about in "Magic for Kids!" books. :) -- James H.G. Redekop | tzoq@... Web...
James H.G. Redekop
tzoq@...
Oct 1, 1998 3:17 pm
7722
... The principle itself is quite simple, but the skill to perform it at the level they do took years of practice. BTW, there is actually quite a bit of really...
Dave Palmer
dpalmer@...
Oct 1, 1998 3:29 pm
7723
... Gould/Lewontin. I guess that my post was misleading. I didn't mean to imply that Dawkins is more of a defender of sociobiology than Wilson. But that the...
George Roemer
groemer@...
Oct 1, 1998 4:16 pm
7724
... True, but it wasn't the "normal" toothpaste most of us use. It was especially developed without any foaming agents. Thus, it's not comparable. George...
George C. Slusher
gslusher@...
Oct 1, 1998 4:18 pm
7725
... Wrong... What I meant is they used tools to catch food, same as the Neanderthal. However they caught more food, or more quickly. In the long run this...
Ludwig Krippahl
ludik@...
Oct 1, 1998 5:10 pm
7726
... As nice as it is occassionally to read a humorous post, they should be the speed bumps of this group, not the main road. This is not alt.humor.skepticism. ...
Paul Bernhardt
pbern7@...
Oct 1, 1998 5:26 pm
7727
... Heh. That's one of the more possible definitions, but my understanding of it from listening to various TBs over the years is that the macrobiotic diet...
... Coincidentally, I was just viewing a copy of the the Mike Douglas shows that John Lennon and Yoko Ono co-hosted in 1972, and one of their guests was a...
John W. Hazelton
hazelton@...
Oct 1, 1998 7:21 pm
7731
... By Jack Raso, M.S., R.D. http://www.hcrc.org/diction/ ... Tom Wheeler...