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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

Fish Oil Supplements Don't Give You An Advantage

... are just expensive placebos, more akin to homeopathy and superstition than medicine, though they are heavily promoted by alternative ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 23 2016 - 3:06pm - 0 attachments

Skyscraper Tall Telescope For Hawaii Mountain - Should Astronomers Build It?

... as "primitive" which doesn't help. Headlines such as Superstition Wins Out as Hawaii Supreme Court Suspends Massive Telescope ... critics so often talk about the Hawaiian beliefs here as "superstition". But they don't call Christianity "superstition". That's a kind ...

Article - Robert Walker - Jan 30 2016 - 9:58am - 0 attachments

Ancient Babylonians Used Geometry To Track Jupiter

Analysis of ancient Babylonian tablets reveals that, to calculate the position of Jupiter, the tablets' makers used geometry, a technique scientists previously believed humans had not developed until at least 1,400 years later, in 14th century Europe. T ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 30 2016 - 12:02pm - 0 attachments

Magical Beliefs, Detection And Correction: Why Superstitions Are Hard To Shake

... correction was inspired by the findings from research on superstition and magical thinking, Risen suggests there are broader ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2015 - 1:00pm - 0 attachments

FOIA Attacks Get Personal

... what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness....” Top image credit: Genetic Literacy ...

Article - Alison Van Eenennaam - Sep 10 2015 - 5:03pm - 0 attachments

GMOs Have Formaldehyde? Bizarre Claim Challenged By Experts

Perhaps the most effective way to scare consumers and regulatory agencies alike is to suggest that a certain product contains a ‘dangerous’ chemical. Even more effective? Have a scientist with four degrees from MIT — but none in food science o ...

Article - Kavin Senapathy - Jul 30 2015 - 2:52pm - 0 attachments

Atheism Peaks, While Spiritual Groups Move Toward Convergence

... as religious preach regularly about the harmfulness of superstition. Also, the researchers live in the (claimed) missile range ...

Blog Post - Nury Vittachi - Jul 14 2015 - 5:01am - 0 attachments

The USDA Considers 15th Century Food Labeling

... and perspective that would diminish, rather than promote, superstition? Printing was  state-of-the-art in 1435 .  We can do better in the 21 st century! Superstition? It may seem extreme for me to declare that the fear of GMO ...

Article - Steve Savage - May 30 2015 - 10:40am - 0 attachments

Chemophobia Rampant, Science In Retreat. It Cannot End Well

... crusade to catch the Zeitgeist of chemophobia and baseless superstition surrounding chemicals, and science in general. They had a team of ...

Article - Gil Ross - May 8 2015 - 10:38am - 0 attachments