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I'm having a very fun debate with a believer friend of mine who has gotten hung up on one of the arguments brought up. I stated the Astrology and Horoscopes provide a negative effect on the world by the poor bastards who follow the tripe. He stated that the effect by those beliefs is so...

A quick question I'd like to run through the Randi forums. I know there are a lot of smart people here; maybe someone can help me out. It's often said that you can't prove a negative. This doesn't seem right to me. It seems to me that it's very easy to prove a negative in some cases. But...

This ought to be in the humour forum, but because of the first part I post it here. Enjoy or be disgusted (take your pick) http://www.newscientist.com/backpage.ns?id=mg19025522.700

I am not sure if this is the right forum section for this. If not I apologize before hand. In any case I run a seperate forum and one of my members had mentioned this This is in reference to cows and pigs living in corporate farms and what not. But anyway, the statement to me seems wrong...

Forgive me if I seem like an idiot in asking this question. I actually AM an idiot, so I have an excuse. We often speak of the impossibility of proving a negative (for example, asking someone to prove that the Invisible Pink Unicorn doesn't exist) in order to highlight the silliness of an...

Hi everybody! I've been lurking a while, but this is my first post. I've been running this "can't prove a negative" thing through my head for a while, and I wanted to get other's opinions. Let's take a standard example: The easter bunny doesn't exist. Can't prove that, cause it's a...

OK, USAians. Go on then. I'm British. Right now I should say that you'd have to prise my National Health Service out of my cold dead hands. And yet... As with the thing about guns, I am perfectly willing to listen receptively to your explanations as to why not doing what the rest of the...

I need a list(or just some mentions) of scientific studies into the paranormal where the results are negative. Any help appreciated. :)

I find negative ads turn me off. I don't care who it is, Bush or Kerry. I lose faith in a party who needs to use negativity to sell themselves as the better party. If that is all they have to offer is negativity and mudslinging then what good are they. I would be more inclined to vote for a...

In the spirit of the "Positive pop-culture portrayals of atheism?" thread, I decided to make this one. What negative portrayals of christianity and/or islam do you know of? Off the top of my head, I'd say Frank Burns from M*A*S*H was a pretty negative portrayal of a christian. Anymore that comes...

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Just when Kerry seems on a roll, Wolf Blitzer did a profile of him today that was quite negative (and, I felt, quite slanted). He emphasized Kerry's wealth (and noted, kind of cattily, that he married "two wealthy women"... indicated some considered him "reckless" in Vietnam...said he never...

Who says you can't? Well, you're wrong. There are many negative statements that can be proven. This text is not white. I am not a turnip. See? This says it better than I do. http://www.graveyardofthegods.net/articles/cantprovenegative.html

I wanted to start a discussion on the term 'bright', which I've seen all over the net the last week. I think that in English at least, this is coopting a moderately perjorative term (at least in the eyes of MOST Americans) with some icky residual semantics. I would humbly propose instead the...

I wanted to start a discussion on the term 'bright', which I've seen all over the net the last week. I think that in English at least, this is coopting a moderately perjorative term (at least in the eyes of MOST Americans) with some icky residual semantics. I would humbly propose instead the...

If this question seems silly please bear with me as I have had only a smattering of philosophy and formal logic in college. Further, I am really, really bored at work so my mind is wandering. I have often heard the phrase that you cannot prove a negative. I have been thinking about that...

Is it true that for certain foods (i.e. celery), your body burns more calories processing it than it actually has. I did a google search and found mostly diet sites and sites about eating disorders. This is the only one that said it was a myth...