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12th July 2008, 12:08 am
By David Annis
Article ID: 1239
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Walk into any supermarket, drug store, or health food store and you will find a wide variety of nutritional supplements. People use these as an alternative to “western” or “conventional” medicine. Unfortunately, when taking nutritional supplements, you aren’t treating your disease or keeping yourself healthy. You are using yourself as a human guinea pig in a poorly designed experiment, the results of which will be thrown away.
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8th July 2008, 12:19 am
By Tammy Buchli, Science & Reason in Hampton Roads
Article ID: 1238
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When my local skeptic’s organization (Science & Reason in Hampton Roads) announced a field trip to Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment in Virginia Beach, I was eager to attend. We planned a full afternoon at the A.R.E. First, an ESP demonstration, and then an educational film about Mr. Cayce, ending with a tour of the Association building. I knew very little about Mr. Cayce before our field trip, and I opted not to do any preparatory research, deciding instead to let the A.R.E. itself serve as Mr. Cayce’s monument.
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4th June 2008, 10:16 pm
By Andy Kaiser
Article ID: 1229
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In writing this article, I tried to use ten percent of my brain. I really did. But I got stuck pretty fast on the method of how to actually use only ten percent of my brain. There seem to be many ways to go about it. For example, I could just think this article in my head, and only write down every tenth word. But the results would be incomprehensible. I could decrease my writing quality to 10% of its usual stellar technique. But that would be annoying for any future readers. I could remove 90% of my writing tools, and type this article using only one finger. But that would just slow me down significantly, when I’d be getting the same final result. Wait: I could encode the characters in this article into their base-10 ASCII equivalents. I’d then take the resulting numeric string and increase its value by a factor of 10, then convert the results back from ASCII into plain text. Mathematical perfection. Granted, it would be unreadable mathematical perfection. That’s counterintuitive to the purpose of Digital Bits Skeptic, so maybe that’s not the best idea.
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12th May 2008, 08:48 pm
By M Parrott
Article ID: 1224
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Homeopathy finds its origins in the 18th century with a German named Samuel Hahnemann (we won’t address the honour of his doctorate). This was a time when blood-letting, leeches, mercury and arsenic were utilised in medical practice. Mr. Hahnemann’s idea was to create a less-harsh form of medicine straying away from the dangerous medicines of the day. This seems a good idea. A shame it doesn’t work. We’ll come back to him later.
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18th February 2008, 04:54 pm
3rd February 2008, 12:37 am
By Tim Eisele
Article ID: 123
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[Editor's note: Some of the external links in this article point to photos that may be disturbing to some.]
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16th October 2007, 08:53 am
By Andy Kaiser
Article ID: 114
What’s the harm in New Age beliefs? What’s the harm in a non-questioning acceptance of religion? Is anyone really hurt if you give money to television psychics, or worship any particular brand of god? In fact, let’s look broader than the umbrella of religion, New Age and superstitious beliefs. Let’s examine credulity.
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