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The Socialism Paradox

I find myself fascinated how similar people, with similar values, can feel so differently about social engineering.  This comes out in political discourse, and certainly is a hot topic today, with those more in favor of socialism, which I’ll refe ...

Blog Post - James Hawkins - Sep 9 2024 - 1:33pm - 0 attachments

60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1949

... offender. Ish’s descendants do fall into an overdone superstition, but they are not savages. The people of The Tribe are shaped at ...

Article - Michael White - Oct 13 2021 - 12:43pm - 0 attachments

Superstition, Ritual And Conspiracies - Why We Sometimes See What We Want To Believe

... sometimes find and impose order in a chaotic world through superstition, rituals and conspiratorial explanations. The research finds that ... sometimes find and impose order in a chaotic world through superstition, rituals and conspiratorial explanations. The research finds that ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 24 2020 - 2:51pm - 0 attachments

Bloodsucker Myths & Movies: Vampires Throughout The Ages

... epidemics and unexplained livestock death fostered vampire superstition. So scared were people that they would dig up interred bodies to ... this ended vampire epidemics, the creature lives on in superstition and artistic works. The hypnotizing, sophisticated and sexy ...

Article - Jen Palmares Meadows - Oct 9 2019 - 10:07am - 0 attachments

Belief In Witchcraft, Magic Serves 'Basic Human Need'

... Though people today might view witchcraft as mere superstition, it’s evident from anthropological literature that, for some ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2018 - 2:10pm - 0 attachments

Birth Defects, A Biblical Great Tribulation And Other Myths About The Eclipse

... time. But there is room for concern if you believe in superstition. In an email, Ed notified me he would not be wearing the ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 18 2017 - 4:58pm - 0 attachments

Science Quotes

... is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition." Adam Smith (1723-90) Scottish economist. The Wealth of ...

Article - Camillo Di Cicco - Aug 19 2017 - 10:41am - 0 attachments

Scientists discover that atheists might not exist, and that’s not a joke

... believed atheism came from a mistaken belief that harmful superstition and a general belief in religious or mystical experience were the ... nourished exclusively by an opposition against naive superstition” (“Einstein on Peace”, page 510). ...

Blog Post - Nury Vittachi - Oct 12 2016 - 8:40am - 0 attachments

Alternative Medicine: What The Public Needs Is Responsible, Critical Assessments

As I am new here, it might be a good idea to briefly introduce myself. I am a physician, trained in Germany, whose very first post as a freshly-backed doctor happened to be in Germany’s only homeopathic hospital. At the time (mid 1970s), I had no idea ...

Article - Edzard Ernst - May 12 2016 - 7:10am - 0 attachments

When Selling Good Karma Goes Bad

... shares properties with other irrational beliefs, such as superstition and fate, which help explain life events or occurrences that are ...

Article - News Staff - May 19 2016 - 7:28am - 0 attachments