Category: A moon/candle in the dark night

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Quackery and the conceit of the brilliant heretic

      A pervasive theme in quackery (aka “alternative” health) is the notion of the brilliant heretic. Believers argue that science is transformed by brilliant heretics whose fabulous theories are initially rejected, but ultimately accepted as the new orthodoxy. Alternative health practitioners, with no embarrassment at their own...

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You don’t have to listen to experts; you are an expert!!!-a comic tragedy

The ultimate appeal of anti-vaccine advocacy: it flatters the ignorant One of the most attractive aspects of anti-vaccine advocacy, indeed of all alternative health, is that no particular knowledge is necessary to declare yourself an expert. It doesn’t matter that you don’t have even the most basic knowledge...

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Tuesday with Bill-Do You Believe in Ghosts and the Afterlife?

Bill Nye tackles a tough question that every person alive has been hung up on – what happens after we die? Where does our life energy go? Transcript – Marsalina: Hi Bill Nye. My name is Marsalina. This is my son Ohenu. And we have a question about...

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Socrates-The father of western philosophy and ”Gadfly”

Here is a man who lived during  470/469 – 399 BC period and known as the founder of western philosophy He is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and  Xenophon .We the quest forum has been quoting him...