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In another thread http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2636819&postcount=409 Bolding and italics mine In the linked thread I have been pedantically stating that addictions are behavioral in nature and pedantically engaged in many discussions on other issues, I was arguing...

What causes people to start terror campaigns? What causes them to join? In other words, why do people become terrorists?

I've just been to Great Adventure in Jackson, NJ and left at closing time, as the masses emptied to go home for the night. Now, I've done this (recently) at a good number of other major theme parks as well (Dorney Park, Hershey Park, Sea World, Disney World's Parks ... you get the point). Only...

My BS klaxons are going off, but it may be due to dealing with the 911 cters too much. http://psychrights.org/Articles/29medicalcausesofsz.htm

Not a very good thread title, but hopefully it will draw the right crowd. This thread spins off from other recent threads regarding consciousness, and adapts a sort of algebra proposed in one by another poster. Links provided upon request, but the topic is sufficiently different that I think...

Theists have a habit of automatically invoking free will when faced with the question of human suffering. However it is obvious that there is a large amount of suffering that has natural causes and is not due to the abuse of free will. For example earthquakes, cyclones, disease etc. Now to...

I won't berate the former prosecutor for those sentiments; if there is a hell, surely this person belongs there. However, Forgive me for missing something here; the closure is there either way. What difference does it make whether he simply died or was executed? The result is the same - the...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4141348.stm also- http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725124.500

Edward Shepard and Paul Blackley looked at the 62 counties in New York to determine the effect of increased drug enforcement on other crimes. Their conclusion is that more arrests for drug crime correspond to more reported non-drug crimes. Possible causes include drug dealers switching to...

There has been a bad train derailment in LA today. Turns out the guy who caused it was trying to kill himself. He decided to park his car on the tracks, but then changed his mind. When he couldn't get the car off the tracks, he got out of the car and left it. Then the Metrorail hit the car...

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/11.04/05-terror.html Interesting article finding weak link between poverty and terroism. The next part kinda surprised me, though it probaby should not have. The article also cites stronger connections between geographical factors and terrorism.

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Excuse me if this has already been covered, but what do people here believe to be the root causes of the anti-western terrorism? Jim Bowen

I mean when you momentarily (or perhaps a short time longer) have pain & then it goes away, not to return? For example, a few weeks ago I had a rather sharp pain in one of my fingers that lasted maybe five minutes. Being a slight hypochondriac, I naturally thought it the start of a malady of...

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/05/28/canada/hysteria_040528 A leading epidemiologist at the University of British Columbia says a suspected poisoning on a Vancouver bus earlier this week appears to be a case of mass hysteria. (snip) A suspicious passenger and mysterious pellets were suspected...

Phone Ignites Gas Station Fire

if time presupposes the big bang then how can the singularity exist to cause the big bang without the presence of time? I guess I'm asking can something exist without the existence of time? Also, In George H. Smith's Atheism The Case Against God (pgs. 240-1)he argues that causality presupposes...

Use of CAM results in delay in seeking medical advice for breast cancer. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12974558&dopt=Abstract

I the term "Surgical Strike" just an oxymoron? Using a ground attack aircraft to strike at one person who may or may not have been home, and in the process killing a group of children is pretty poor form. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3298945.stm

Or maybe I fell asleep during one news story and woke up during another...

This week's commentary includes a quote from the London Times. Prof. John Allen Paulos has written about this phenomenon on many occasions, although not necessarily in the context of conspiracy. From "A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper" (1995): In the car example cited by Paulos, the "fault"...

Did anyone else catch the "Climate Conflict" program on The Science Channel last night? I thought it did a pretty good job of explaining conflicting theories on global warming, in particular Henrik Svensmark's data showing that changes in the Sun's magnetic field correlates to Earth...