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ASMR: Why do some sounds trigger a pleasurable ‘tingly’ feeling in the brain?
What is [Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, or] ASMR? As any article you read on the subject will tell you, the ...
Mark Twain’s misguided obsession with alternative medicine
[Mark] Twain was raised with alternative medicine. His mother, Jane Clemens, dabbled in everything from homeopathy to spiritualism to patent ...
Debunking anti-aging myths and why no ‘single intervention’ is going to help us live forever
Today there are countless modern versions of the Fountain of Youth. Dietary supplements and other treatments are claimed to reverse ...
Viewpoint: God, by definition, cannot be ‘all powerful’
The traditional definition of God credits him with three attributes: moral perfection, omniscience, and omnipotence. … But is that right? ...
Alternative medicine a scam? New book exposes the lack of scientific rigor of ‘complementary’ treatments
As the world’s first professor of complementary medicine, Dr. Edzard Ernst set out to apply rigorous scientific standards of evidence ...
How ‘human errors’ challenge intelligent design theory
When Charles Darwin first proposed natural selection as the mechanism of evolutionary change, he provided many different lines of reasoning ...
Viewpoint: Peggy Sarlin’s ‘Awakening from Alzheimer’s’ offers ‘false claims, false hope’
[S]cientists are diligently working to understand [Alzheimer’s] disease and find an effective treatment. Others apparently think they needn’t bother. A ...