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Landmark Forum - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com
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By Robert Todd Carroll. Frauds, Hoaxes, Conspiracies. Too good to be true. Mysteries and Science for Kids. Podcast: Unnatural Virtue archive. From Abracadabra to Zombies View All. Is a large group awareness training program. In which up to 150 people take a seminar together aimed at helping them realize their true potential. Landmark Forum began in 1985 by those who had purchased the est. Some people claim to have had breakdowns after attending such programs as Landmark Forum [see Lell, who had one after...
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illuminati - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com
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By Robert Todd Carroll. The Illuminati and the anti-Christ. 3 the major players. 331 William Guy Carr. 34 Milton William Bill Cooper. 35 Robert Gaylon Ross, Sr. 4 Why does anyone listen to these rants? 5 Providence and eschatology. 6 Bush and Cheney seem to fulfill every PCTs worldview. 81 books and articles. 82 websites and blogs. 9 Richard Morrocks review of 9/11: A Date That Will Live in Infamy. By David Ray Griffin. Frauds, Hoaxes, Conspiracies. Too good to be true. Mysteries and Science for Kids.
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placebo effect - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com
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By Robert Todd Carroll. 1 H K Beecher. 3 Hróbjartsson and Götzsche. 4 placebos and pain relief. 5 its all in your mind. 8 the genetic connection. 9 are placebos dangerous? 10 list of other Skeptics Dictionary entries of relevance to the placebo effect. Response to Mark Crislip's claim that there is no placebo effect. Frauds, Hoaxes, Conspiracies. Too good to be true. Mysteries and Science for Kids. From Abracadabra to Zombies View All. Petr Skrabanek and James McCormick,. Follies and Fallacies in Medicine.
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eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com
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By Robert Todd Carroll. Frauds, Hoaxes, Conspiracies. Too good to be true. Mysteries and Science for Kids. From Abracadabra to Zombies View All. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). What is new in EMDR does not appear to be helpful, and what is helpful is what we already know about relaxation, education, and psychotherapy. *. While on a walk in the park. At least, that's her version. John Grinder, one of the founders of NLP. Claims he taught the eye movement part to her. It is claimed th...
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cognitive dissonance - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com
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By Robert Todd Carroll. Frauds, Hoaxes, Conspiracies. Too good to be true. Mysteries and Science for Kids. From Abracadabra to Zombies View All. Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) - Walt Whitman, Song of Myself. Before we try to explain something, we should be sure it actually happened."- Ray Hyman. If you want to prove anything, just assume p and not p. From any contradiction you can validly infer q, any other proposition. He argued that there...
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astrology - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com
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By Robert Todd Carroll. Frauds, Hoaxes, Conspiracies. Too good to be true. Mysteries and Science 4 Kids. From Abracadabra to Zombies View All. As above, so below. Astrology, in its traditional form, is a type of. She has sent me several e-mails about things like a full solar eclipse viewable from China in July 2009 and stories about earthquakes in Japan the following month. Do you still think it is just a coincidence? She asked. Yes, I do. We call this the post hoc fallacy. In my neighborhood.). Even so,...
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palmistry - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com
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By Robert Todd Carroll. Frauds, Hoaxes, Conspiracies. Too good to be true. Mysteries and Science for Kids. Podcast: Unnatural Virtue archive. From Abracadabra to Zombies View All. Palmistry, also known as chiromancy, is the practice of telling fortunes from the lines, marks, and patterns on the hands, particularly the palms. Palmistry was practiced in many ancient cultures, such as India, China and Egypt. The first book on the subject appeared in the 15th century. The term chiromancy. It claims that you ...
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Respectful Atheist: October 2011
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Saturday, 22 October 2011. Let's Talk About Sex. I couldn't argue. (Yes, ladies, boys even find your ankles attractive sometimes! Looking back, I realize this book laid the groundwork, on how I would view sex for the next 20 plus years. The bottom line is I bought the Christian message, on sex, hook, line and sinker. That message goes something like this.a) masturbation might be bad, we pastors and theologians can't entirely agree on this, but it's. We're still not as bad as those non-Christians who.
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Respectful Atheist: August 2012
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Friday, 24 August 2012. Now that I'm an atheist, I can't help but notice that a lot of believers strongly associate particular virtues with Christianity. Some of these laudable attributes have become so. But, does Christianity really have ownership over these values? Clearly not, because I am an atheist who still believes. In many of these (so called) "Christian" ideas. Is this merely because I was raised in a Christian home and culture? And does it also make me a Christian (or Christian-ish) atheist?
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Respectful Atheist: April 2012
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Saturday, 28 April 2012. This post will be something of a loose sequel to my previous thoughts, on Joyce Meyer. Which generated some interesting conversation. What's the point of even mentioning this? Recently, as these thoughts were still floating around in the back on my mind somewhere, I stumbled into a book called " God Wants You to Be Happy. Side note: A few years ago I met and conversed with Ruth and, although she's been through a lot in her life. Christians do it routinely. Does everyone have an e...
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