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I consider myself to be a 100% skeptic, sometimes bordering on the cynical, however I try to be open minded and take on board as much info as I can before taking up an argument fully. I've recently been put on gardening leave from work and I've had a bit of time on my hands, so I decided to have...

A local TV station in PA ran a piece about The Power of Faith. In the section titled "God's Will": Anyone know what studies they refer to? I sent an email to the station asking for the information.

Prince Charles getting royally incensed about young people today who have "ideas above their station," in a memo to one of his staffers: "People think they can all be pop stars, high court judges, brilliant TV personalities or infinitely more competent heads of state without ever putting in the...

This David Riley (sp?) guy is on NPR right now. Apparently he's some well known homeopathy/alternative medicine proponent. He's dodging questions about how homeopathy works right now. He says the Lancet did a study that said it worked 2 1/2 times better than placebo. Is that right? Now...

Alright, kind of a branch-off from my earlier topic, but I think it deserved a new thread. How does this work. I understand what an L1 is, how it works, what it does, etc. What I want to know is how can a refueling station WORK at one of these. I mean, it is basically an unmanned point in...

Obviously, some invisible space creature is snacking on the ISS. ;)

"Pilosophy Talk", a new radio show on NPR station KALW San Francisco 91.7 FM The past Wednesday, I was pleasantly suprised to tune into one of the local NPR stations in the middle of *gasp!* a show on philosophy. Evidently, these 2 Stanford guys hyjacked the airwaves during the time usually...

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