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Power Balance Wristbands Probed
READ THE REST OF THIS ENTRY AT LIFEINITALY.COM ANSA) – Rome, August 3 – Italy’s antitrust watchdog said on Tuesday that it had opened a probe into the companies which distribute the Power Balance...
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The War Over “Nice”
READ THE FULL ENTRY AT SKEPTICBLOG Skeptics and parallel rationalist communities spend a lot of time on “inside baseball” — jargon-filled debates about technical matters that seem incomprehensible,...
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Food Faddism and Child Abuse
Guest post by Kyle Tuttle Fad diets are nothing new; they’ve been around for ages. And the reason they’re fads is that most people soon realize they don’t work and stop using them just as quickly as...
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CFI and the Non-mosque not-on Ground Zero-An inquiry
So the CFI has joined the discussion about the non-mosque not on Ground Zero with a press release, a very worrying to me as a secularist, humanist and skeptic, misguided press release. The Center for...
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My rug has been pissed on
A little while ago I wrote a little post titled Skeptics Gone Wild, in which I criticized the use of an argument, which I classified as an ad hominem, against Jenny McCarthy that goes like this: Jenny...
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Recently on Vaccine Central
As many of you may know, my main focus has switched to my Vaccine Central blog. Here is a sampling of some of the latest entries I posted there: California Whooping Cough update 09-07-10 – 8 infants...
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Further Thoughts on the Ethics of Skepticism
READ THE FULL ENTRY AT SKEPTICBLOG My recent post “The War Over ‘Nice’” (describing the blogosphere’s reaction to Phil Plait’s “Don’t Be a Dick” speech) has topped out at more than 200 comments. That’s...
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Aspartame – Truth vs Fiction
READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT SCIENCE-BASED MEDICINE If you believe everything you read on the internet, then is seems that a chemical found in thousands of products is causing an epidemic of severe...
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Acupuncture Not Effective in Stroke Recovery, Study Finds
READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT SCIENCE DAILY Acupuncture does not appear to aid in stroke recovery, according to a new study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). Acupuncture is often...
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Survey: Americans don’t know much about religion
READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT THE WASHINGTON POST A new survey of Americans’ knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering...
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