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Linky When will the surgeon general step up?

The Independent newspaper here in the UK (a 'serious' paper) recently ran a story and leader about the dangers of electronic smog - http://comment.independent.co.uk/leading_articles/article362465.ece http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article362557.ece Sounds pretty dodgy, and can't...

So one of the local professors, who teaches courses in "peace studies," is listed in David Horowitz's book, "The ProFessors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America." Accusations are that he is a communist, and, well, I haven't read the book so I don't know all the story. Horowitz has...

The Edge annual question. http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_index.html Selected quotes: ROGER C. SCHANK Psychologist & Computer Scientist; Chief Learning Officer, Trump University; Author, Making Minds Less Well Educated than Our Own SAM HARRIS Neuroscience Graduate Student, UCLA; Author...

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=7591 These are the ten most harmful books as defined by Human Events -- a conservative political magazine. Note, Darwin only rated a Honorable mention...lead positions, predictably to Marx, Hitler and Mao, but Kinsey and Rachel Carson? What's...

Air Purifiers It sure seems like Sharper Image, et.al., are really pushing these things, to the point where I'm getting tired of seeing the ads. They are on CNN a lot. I have not paid much attention to the ads, as I have two HEPA air cleaners that do the job very efficiently.

Chamomile tea drinkers have "higher levels of a substance called glycine" which is a neurotransmitter in the spinal cord. It contains hipurate which can cause rashes, blood in urine, lower back pain, nausea and vomiting. It also contains sedatives and anti-inflamatories. "Chamomile tea can...

Time to bury another myth: Knives are as dangerous as guns. If you kill with a gun: You can do it from a distance. You don't leave DNA at the scene where the victim is. You don't have to be close, thereby endangering yourself: You can get caught, wounded, killed yourself. You can surprise the...

"As dangerous as an atomic bomb", apparently. Although obviously not literally so; I'm sure we'd have noticed earlier if hospitals started vapourising in colossal explosions. However, now we have MRI scans, I'm curious as to why we're still using X-Rays for this sort of thing anyway. Is the CAT...

Helloooo... The trend for "intimate" cosmetic surgery has reached the point where not only are women undergoing labia reshaping and vagina "tightening" but now anal bleaching is on the cards. I don't often have call to look at mine, to be fair, so have no idea what colour it is/should be...

Don't mess with the Pasco County (unnamed) sheriff's deputy--he don't take no sh!t from anybody: http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/04/09/girl.handcuffed.ap/index.html

Is 'faith' dangerous? Is it as some say, a 'brain virus'? Does faith cause more problems than it 'solves'?? Is it dangerous to believe something for which you have no empirical evidence, relying instead on a pastiche of quasi-philosophical pontifications?? My questions are not rhetorical, and I...

I've heard it on more than one occasion that there are just certain technologies that should not be discovered, the most obvious example being nuclear bombs, of course. I'm not so sure I think it's possible to predict a techonology that shouldn't be discovered, much less proove that there is...

Frensh Cards Spoof U.S. Government

What drug poses the greatest danger to the individual in your opinion? Why? Do you support the legalization of drugs? Which ones? Where do you draw the line between legal and illegal?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=2&u=/nm/20030821/od_nm/odd_dutch_handset_dc Electromagnetic fields? No, fire!

If you had to pick a cult or sect that poses the largest threat to american or world society, who would you pick and why? Examples: Scientology Latter Day Saints Nation of Islam What do you think?