Daily Archive: July 23, 2021

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Illness, Healing, and Other Terms That Can Be Confusing(Harriet Hall)-Skeptical Inquirer Volume 45, No. 4)

Disease vs. Illness The words disease and illness are often used interchangeably, but their meanings are very different. Diseases are biomedical entities that cause impairment of the normal functioning of the body, while illness refers to the way a patient experiences a sickness. There can be disease without...

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Situation Critical- Skeptical Inquirer Presents(CFI)

It may seem a big claim, but knowing how to think clearly and critically has literally helped save the world. In September 1983, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union’s early warning system showed five US missiles heading towards the country. Stanislaw Petrov knew his...

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Virus: Vaccinations, the CDC and the Hijacking of America’s Response to the Pandemic | Nina Burleigh(Presented by Center for Inquiry)

A few months before the virus slammed the world, global public health experts declared the United States the most prepared for a possible pandemic. Instead, the world watched as the disease killed half a million and counting, and brought the nation to its knees. A stunned nation has...