Category Archives: medical research

Newsweek jumps on Oprah

Finally, somebody in the mainstream media is taking on Oprah Winfrey and her promotion of airy-fairy, New-Agey, homeopathic, nonsensical pseudo-science. You may have heard that Oprah is giving Jenny “Vaccines Cause Autism” McCarthy her own show. Anyway, Newsweek has just … Continue reading

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SuperSense

Review by John C. Snider Is the tide changing in the struggle between science and religion?  For the last four hundred years (give or take a few decades), science has been content to challenge the claims of religion (and it’s … Continue reading

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Why are we religious?

At the American Atheists National Convention here in Atlanta last weekend, we heard Dr. J. Anderson Thomson deliver a fascinating lecture on religion and the brain.  Don’t miss an opportunity to hear Dr. Thomson speak!

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Time to de-fund NCCAM?

You probably didn’t know that the federal goverment actually funds a National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medice (NCCAM).  Ironically, NCCAM has spent more time conclusively debunking CAM rather than affirming it, much to the chagrin of Senator Tom Harkin, … Continue reading

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The Stem Cell Wars have only begun

No sooner does President Barack Obama lift certain restrictions on stem cell research funding, than Georgia Republicans introduce a bill that will restrict such research in my adopted home state.  From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

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