Natural is a pretty meaningless term, if you accept that humans are animals, etc... It's only use is as a political buzzword (natural = good, healthy, traditional, uncultivated). Everything is natural.

Now I can understand how there might be some kind of benefit from homebirth, but how could it possibly be safer than birth in a hospital? How could a person be safer with less resources and a dirtier environment, further from trained professionals with the technology, experience, and knowledge to save the lives of…

um. So i guess that there was a sun somewhere in the middle of this centrifuge? And you haven't heard of the equivalence principle?

explain what the centrifuge was all about then

Good point about the detachment from reality, but I'm not convinced that there isn't a gray area where lucidity creeps in enough to make this kind of judgment. The placebo effect is based on belief that the treatment will make the person well. Many beliefs about drugs are based on knowledge disseminated to the…

Maybe this is the effect of more schizophrenic patients believing that antipsychotics work, as opposed to the times when the medications were new. This reinforced belief in the efficacy of these drugs probably comes from more of these patients being administered drugs that actually work. I can imagine that the…

Oh, I'm sure the majority of anti-vaxxers believe that vaccines are intended to inoculate against disease, they just believe that somehow big-pharma is making money off of the truth about side effects not being known (though vaccines are cheap and hardly profitable). It's all still very irrational because if there is…

Agreed. It seems the author of the article could have picked any decent scifi story and made the same kind of claims. Tl/dr version of the article: I like the movie, Minority Report.

While I agree that psychic phenomena is pretty psuedo-scifi nowadays, interest in psychic phenomena was a subject of interest to many of the "real" scifi writers of the time in which the story was written. Two examples: Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke.

You have American evangelical missionaries to thank for this, and for the rampant homophobia in Africa, as well. Onward, Christian soldiers!

It seems to me that this is the sad consequence of living in a society of people who are mostly out of touch with death. If some of these parents had lived in a time or place where the deadly diseases we vaccinate against were prevalent, where you literally see people dying in the streets, where epidemics decimated…

This "complexity" is the result of deception and the spread of misinformation. The science, by comparison, is pretty simple and straightforward. And I suppose people's anger and indignation at other forms of destructive ignorance like racism and sexism are also unwarranted? After all, the world is also full of a…

I know. How is complaining not an act? The simplest definition of complain I can think of is to communicate dissatisfaction. If one doesn't communicate dissatisfaction, then the problem-solving process can't even begin because no problem is even noticed. Sometimes it's also a fact that the squeaky wheel gets the…

I'm sorry. The author may be right, but he gives no real supporting information. This thing reads like an infomercial.

Pretty much. Most illicit cheaters would rather it remain one-sided, too. And the mention of alcohol being a catalyst makes perfect sense too. If you've no reason to feel guilty, there's no reason to loosen inhibition with substances, unless you're nervous for other reasons. The illicit thrill is a lot more fun for…

Luckily we have folks like you around who are in the know about these nefarious conspiracies to stymie progress.

For those who would use the argument that class division would be exaggerated by the legalizing of "designer baby" technology, are ignoring the fact that making it illegal will only insure that the wealthiest will be the only ones with access to it.

Actually, this is a common misconception. Check misconception #13:

Lol. It looks like Hubbard is struggling with the concept of "the double hermeneutic". It usually applies to general knowledge of sociology/psychology research affecting its subject (society), but it can just as easily be applied to "tech" of this sort. Sure, Hubbard had his own take on it, but he doesn't have much…

Do you remember your source? Is it valid? (up to date, solid, reputable) Do you understand the basis of this knowledge and the relevant unknowns? Can you cite all of these things if asked? If you can confidently say yes to all of these, answer away. I doubt most people can say this all the time about the answers…