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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 ...
Viewpoint: We need constraints on artificial intelligence
If there’s nothing magical about our brains or essential about the carbon atoms that make them up, then we can ...
‘Penis as a social construct’: Social science hoax reveals problems of pay-to-publish journals
The androcentric scientific and meta-scientific evidence that the penis is the male reproductive organ is considered overwhelming and largely uncontroversial ...
