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This week is Acupuncture Awareness Week. This is probably a good thing as, of all the alternative medicines, acupuncture carries perhaps the most myths. These myths need to be addressed.Acupuncture has achieved an accepted status perhaps even more than chiropractic and osteopathy as being now an accepted part of...
A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / pleasure of knowledge
by thequestforum · Published March 3, 2016
There are three specific myths that surround our most beloved creators, and if you model yourself on those myths, you’re setting yourself up for failure. The myths are (1) the lone wolf inventor; (2) the eureka moment; (3) the myth of the expert. From new theories of physics...
A moon/candle in the dark night
by thequestforum · Published February 27, 2016 · Last modified March 1, 2016
Dr Harriet Hall continues with her presentation watch it here Chiropractic is a pre-scientific belief system based on a mythicalconcept, the chiropractic “subluxation.”(incomplete or partial dislocation of a joint or organ)Some of the things chiropractors offer, like spinal manipulation for low back pain, are useful but are also...
A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / National Science week special
by thequestforum · Published February 26, 2016
CAM was once defined as “stuff that isn’t taught in medical schools.”CAM is a shortcut from idea to bedside, bypassing good science.The growing popularity of CAM may be attributed to multiple factors, including misunderstandings about science and a distrust of the medical establishment You can watch the...
A moon/candle in the dark night / National Science week special
by thequestforum · Published February 24, 2016
(Harriet Hall, MD, also known as The SkepDoc from her column of that name in Skeptic magazine, is a retired family physician and former flight surgeon who retired from the Air Force with the rank of colonel.She writes prolifically about medicine, so called alternative medicine, science, quackery,...
A moon/candle in the dark night / National Science week special
by thequestforum · Published February 23, 2016
Astrology, in its traditional form, is a type of divination based on the theory that the positions and movements of celestial bodies (stars, planets [except the one you are born on or those in other solar systems], Sun, and Moon) at the time of birth profoundly...
A moon/candle in the dark night / National Science week special
by thequestforum · Published February 22, 2016 · Last modified August 22, 2016
During his 20 minute interview, Sagan discussed pseudo-science and religion, technology and exponential growth, politics and education, his personal love affair with science and his struggle with myelodysplasia, as well as other elements of his last book: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the...
A moon/candle in the dark night / For members
by thequestforum · Published February 21, 2016 · Last modified August 22, 2016
Carl Sagan who was one of the pioneers who realized the importance of science education and who vehemently fought against pseudoscience. Sagan’s book elaborated on his skeptical, naturalistic view of the world. In The Demon-Haunted World, he presented tools for testing arguments and detecting fallacious or...
A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / National Science week special
by thequestforum · Published February 19, 2016 · Last modified February 22, 2016
It is often said that if you can not be a sun or star be at least be a moon.Moon even though not able to produce its own light , can reflect light from sun an shed some light in the otherwise dark night.The forum also...
A moon/candle in the dark night / For members / Quest to share
by thequestforum · Published June 18, 2015 · Last modified August 25, 2016
“Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the...
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