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It is my impression that Randi hasn't claimed that his tests are scientific, but that they still strive to make the tests somewhat scientific. Perhaps what I'm wondering most of all is, what exactly is it that would make a test scientific? Just because a test uses specific scientific...

I was wondering this...I thought I would ask here for a straight forawd simple answer without googling it,since google only shows creationist links and nonsense. So when does a Scientific Theory Become a Scientific Fact? I have herd that when it can be observed in a lab. If this is true,Why...

We'll only hear about this one for the next hundred years or so.

http://www.geocities.com/scientific_proof_of_god/

I've been going through some of the late Mel Siff's writings and found a letter of his to which I hadn't payed much attention when I first read it. I know that usual woo-woos cling on such topics in order to disprove the scientific methods, but I'm getting tired of debating with woo-woos and...

By the tenets of science, theories and hypotheses must be consonant with empirical data. If there are theories and hypotheses which either are not justified by any empirical data, or in principle could not be justified by any empirical data, then they are not scientific. Nevertheless the...

Hey, I'm sure it's good science... http://www.sixthsearch.com/rup5/index.asp

Anything of it peer-reviewed? Will appreciate any help thanks.

Where is the best place to stay up to date on the latest scientific discovers and news for free. I know about sciencedirect.com but they are extremelly expensive $30 for a single journal. All help is appreciated.

so who else is completely unaffected by the whole homeopathy "conspiracy"? Are you afraid homeopathy will turn out to be true and we will have to admit being wrong? Or are you aware of the great things that homeopathy could do if it turned out to be right, but just absolutely unconvinced by...

Time for a revolution. ... The search for truth cannot be fulfilled until this love-affair with science is finally over. Yes, she was beautiful for a season... taking us on a wild and wonderous adventure... seducing us with technological comforts. But she deceived us also... blunting our...

I recently came across the History House site. A very interesting article describes the weeks of torment that President Garfield underwent after he had been shot, before he died. The article is Garfield II: A Lengthy Demise. Medicine was divided into two branches at the time - homeopathy and...

Do a Google or AskJeeves search on "Jerusalem Syndrome" and you will find Web pages referring to three topics: 1) a punk rock band from Haifa 2) An award-winning movie from 2002 3) A psychological condition I want to talk about the latter. People affected by Jerusalem Syndrome are typically...

Hi, What is your favorite scientific paper? (by that I mean a paper, published in a respected peer-reviewed scientific journal)

Here it is: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=00055DC8-3BAA-1FA8-BBAA83414B7F0000 Basically it asks whether race exists and the answer is "yes" but differences within a group outweigh those between groups, and its not "race" as we know it. For example, they don't...

A couple of days ago I mentioned in The Everlasting Mathematical Thread about the textbook named Applied Abstract Algebra. I've always liked the title because on first reading it sounds like an oxymoron. When cleaning my table I came across a paper by two Japanese logicians, C. Sakama and K...

See you don't see many herbal advocates saying this kind of thing: http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/11/12/testosterone.therapy.ap/index.html

The Skeptic Community, particularly the material skeptic, seem to point out that the Churches of europe hindered scientific progress and the truth about reality. Today when one reflects on what happened in the last century, the same can be said about the scientific estblishment. The material...

This is an update of sorts of this thread about a student who plagarized my work Brief summary: grad student published what was supposed to be a multi-authored paper as solely his own. The University has decided to go forward with this as academic fraud - plagarism and has asked me what I...

Hi all! In the September Issue of the Spanish Edition of Scientific American (here it is called "Investigacion y Ciencia") we can found at page 24 an article about MAGNETIC WATER!!! I wrote SA spain because the article is pure pseudoscience and it has very poor quality. With not response at...

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?colID=1&articleID=000AF072-4891-1F0A-97AE80A84189EEDF Any comments on it? So, what do hardcore "the universe is energy and matter" folks say? What do Occam's Razor nutriders say about this evidence based, theory of the universe? :)

I have often what effect that monotheism has had on science. I realize that science is a method for deciding which theory predicts reality better. But so often people feel that there is just one right answer. Is it possible for there to be more than one right thery or answer?

An interesting article on synaesthesia. Athon

The full-text Cochrane Group report: Editorial peer-review for improving the quality of reports of biomedical studies Jefferson TO, Alderson P, Davidoff F, Wager E

No, not our favorite poster, but the disorder. Here's an astonishing fact: a man who is color-blind nevertheless can experience colors he can't see, because they are associated with certain numeral shapes. His brain processes the color, even if his eyes won't signal it - unless they see a...

Which one is it? If it is a scientific theory, what is the evidence that the universe is completely deterministic? If it's a philosophical theory (which would make it a metaphysical one I suppose), what are the arguments for it? Does any physicist today hold a strict deterministic theory...