There is a good critical examination of so-called naturopathic medicine at http://www.medscape.com/ Excerpt from that review: "Naturopathic medicine" is an...
Lloyd Davidson
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Jan 6, 2004 10:33 pm
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Dear all, The Antiquity of Man website has been updated with the following: a) Essay - Can we achieve an adequate archaeology of religion ? If so, what can we...
What do you folks think of Michael Shermer? He's the editor of Speptic magazine and is one of the most active debunkers around. He's on numerous talk shows...
When I was in high school I began to delve into skepticism after having read books about UFOs in middle school and believing them! Gradually, as I became a...
I have deliberately not bought a copy of 'Why People Believe Weird Things' because I dislike the assumption implicit in the title. There are all manner of...
1.) People are liars because deceit is programmed into us genetically. 2.) The most dangerous liars are the ones who dont know they are doing it. 3.) The...
Hi Paul, I just read through some of your chiro stuff. I wanted you to know that I graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 2000. I was so sickened by...
Hi Aaron, Thanks for telling us your story. I've heard similar stories a number of times. I know several chiros who are in medical school, or have gone into...
... As far as I know there is evidence that chiropractic can help for back pain. It's a far cry from the ability to cure everything, but it's something, and...
Chiropractic is not completely invalid, and yes people feel better, sometimes dramatically. I have some friends who practice semi- respectable forms of...
... Full agreement, as long as one distinguishes between chiropracTIC and chiropracTOR. While chiropractic is illegitimate, individual chiropractors can be...
Long ago before man came into existence, nor indeed the dinosaurs or any other life on earth, long before the event of the "big bang" took place, there was a...
I'm offering an internet-based archaeology course on world archaeology, which will run from Sunday 21 March - Saturday 15 May 2004. The cost is £30/$60. All...
Part of the confusion over alternative therapies is the belief that something needs to be true to beneficially alter a person's physiology. It doesn't. As long...
And your point in sending this is ....? Jan in Vina Technogiddo stated for some unknown reason: Long ago before man came into existence, nor indeed the...
... Reikman. Reikman is trying to create a balance between straights and therapy based Chiros by endorsing symptom based practice with " lifetime wellness...
Aaron, you ought to join the Healthfraud Discussion List. Tell your story there. http://www.quackwatch.org/00AboutQuackwatch/discuss.html Regards, Paul Lee The...
I recently participated in a discussion of the book "From Science to God" by the above author. My comments to the group expressed my belief that what Peter...
... Things' ... all manner ... expensive ... got down to ... really ought to ... great to ... that ... I own both "How We Believe" and "Why People Believe...
... Things' ... all manner ... expensive ... got down to ... really ought to ... great to ... that ... I own both "How We Believe" and "Why People Believe...
There is actually quite a bit of mainstream-level speculation (mostly in quantum physics and cosmology) regarding consciousness as playing an important role in...
... It is a little difficult to decide what constitutes "mainstream." I've read hundreds of articles on such topics without encountering it once. I do recall...
I'd never heard of this guy or any of this topic in my readings about the study of consciousness. So this is just sheer personal opinion, not based in any...
Hello everyone This is my first intervention, so I hope to make it fine. I think what the skepticide meant are the ideas of Fred Hoyle of intelligence and...
Dr. Valdivia - I certainly would not make fun of your English - you expressed your ideas much more elegantly than many I know for whom English is a primary...
Thanks for all the responses so far. It is for this kind of interaction that I joined the Skeptics Forum. I am definitely a physicalist, and will remain so...
... Thank you for your patience trying to understand me. Hoyle made some interesting supositions, but it is still important compare his point of view with some...
The following was reported a few days ago on BBCNews.com's Science/Nature section. I sent them some feedback asking whether a story about a "telepathic ...
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