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Category Archives: Science & Faith
California Injects Some Sense on Vaccination
Or at least it’s getting closer to doing that. This from Reuters/Religion News Service: California parents who do not vaccinate their children would have to home-school them under a bill passed Thursday by the state Senate, the latest move in … Continue reading
Posted in Medicine, Science & Faith
Tagged Ideology, vaccinations
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Conservative vs. ISIS and…Silicon Valley
For a guy who laments moral relativism, Rod Dreher doesn’t shy away from equating ISIS, though with the expected qualifier, to the folks in Silicon Valley. Upon reading a dialogue between two future forecaster types at Edge.org – who talk … Continue reading
“Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder”
Cross-posted on the Corner Just when you think that the misery that climate change is bringing in its wake can get no worse, there is this. Grist reports: …From depression to substance abuse to suicide and post-traumatic stress disorder, growing … Continue reading
Star Turn
The BBC: A Conservative MP has spoken of his belief in astrology and his desire to incorporate it into medicine. David Tredinnick said he had spent 20 years studying astrology and healthcare and was convinced it could work….Explaining his beliefs … Continue reading
Posted in Science & Faith
Tagged Astrology, David Tredinnick, superstition, UK
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Superstitions Old and New
Raw Story: Televangelist Pat Robertson advised a mother on Monday that she could cure her son’s stomach pains by finding someone to cast out demons that were possibly caused by an ancestor who practiced witchcraft. In an email, a viewer … Continue reading
Posted in Science & Faith
Tagged Demons, environmentalism, Pat Robertson, possession, pseudoscience, Religious Right, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., superstition, Vaccines, Witchcraft
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Can Water Weep?
Cross-posted on the Corner: The Independent: In the latest episode of ‘Gwyneth Paltrow states the absolute ridiculous’, the actress has claimed that saying negative things to water can hurt its feelings. What? Well, that’s a little bit of a stretch … Continue reading
“Nostalgia for the Absolute”
In the course of an article triggered by the bullying of climatologist Lennart Bengtsson, Mark Steyn digs up this extract from a tremendous “imaginary address” by Yale law professor Stephen Carter to America’s Class of 2014, currently so busy, as … Continue reading
Posted in Religion, Science & Faith
Tagged blasphemy and defamation of religion, Climate Change, religion
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Finding order where there is none
Via Andrew Sullivan, Benjamin Wallace-Wells’ examination of American conspiracism in New York magazine: The seduction of conspiracy is the way it orders chaos. Hmmm, that sounds like another phenomenon I could mention, which makes this entertainingly ironic : In the … Continue reading
Science and Economics
Cross-posted on Ricochet: The Guardian: One of Saudi Arabia’s leading conservative clerics has said women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and bearing children with clinical problems, countering activists who are trying to end the Islamic kingdom’s male-only driving rules. … Continue reading
Posted in economics, Science & Faith
Tagged Islamic fundamentalism, Islamism, Natalism, Saudi Arabia, Tayyip Recep Erdogan, Turkey
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Pastoral Care
The BBC reports: Some young HIV patients are giving up their medicine after being told by Pentecostal Church pastors to rely on faith in God instead, doctors warn. Medical staff told the BBC a minority of pastors in England were … Continue reading
Posted in Science & Faith
Tagged faith-healing, Multiculturalism, Pentecostalism, superstition, UK
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