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... like parallel science and the unnecessary fear and superstition that it has engendered about “GMOs.”   When ...

Article - Steve Savage - Feb 16 2015 - 1:43pm - 0 attachments

If someone in 2012 wants to criticize Henry Ford because he didn't know everything about automobiles a century ago, it's a little silly. He knew what he knew given the science and the technology of his day - he revolutionized his field.  Freud got a ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 12 2015 - 12:37pm - 0 attachments

... hope men realize this. With knowledge and science, against superstition and prejudice, well-being and equality are pursued. This ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 7 2015 - 9:00am - 0 attachments

Time-dependent Maxwell's equations in media  By Robyn Arianrhod , Monash University It’s hard to imagine life without mobile phones, radio and television. Yet the discovery of the electromagnetic waves that underpin such te ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 26 2015 - 9:00am - 0 attachments

Forget the Higgs Boson, the Landing on Comets, Missions to Mars, the Genome Project, Nanostructures and all that. This start of this new millennium looks like the dark ages to me if I have to gauge it from discussions I overhear in public places.  ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 12 2014 - 3:06pm - 0 attachments

... that have made it synonymous with backwardness, superstition and inequality. So when the word is used today, these negative ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 5 2014 - 10:12am - 0 attachments

... the superstitious people of today. There is good news. Superstition did not hold back science in the 18th and 19th centuries. Maxwell ... store rather than a church. Science as profane: What superstition of 1752 and 2014 share in common by Hank Campbell, Genetic ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 4 2014 - 10:04am - 0 attachments

... Hippocrates is considered the father of medicine, enemy of superstition, pioneer of rationality and fount of eternal wisdom. Statues ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 3 2014 - 8:00am - 0 attachments

... are less ominous. One of my personal favorites is superstition. I’m pretty bad myself despite considering myself immune to such ... sit near opposition supporters (actually, that’s not superstition, they just annoy me). Superstitious pigeons The famous ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 24 2014 - 9:20pm - 0 attachments

... in the essay: “It is impious, says the modern European superstition, to put a period to our own life, and thereby rebel against our ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Jan 27 2014 - 6:04am - 0 attachments