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On Being Certain

Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not, Inspired By Science-Based Medicine’s Harriet Hall
I came upon this wonderful post over at Science-Based Medicine:
Neurologist Robert A. Burton, MD has written a gem of a book: On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not. His thesis is that “Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing [...]

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Oxford’s God Study: No Psychologists?

On February 19, 2008, several online news sites ran an article by the Associated Press titled Oxford to Study Faith in God (I’ll link to this one, if you’d like to read the short article in full). The first paragraph reads:

University of Oxford researchers will spend nearly $4 million to study why mankind embraces God. [...]

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Think You’ve Seen A Ghost? Just Turn Out The Lights

Are you one of many Americans who believe they’ve experienced the presence of a ghost? Your own brain could be deceiving you. I am not referring to intelligence or alertness, but the electrical inner-workings of the brain. Electrical interference could be the culprit, rather than a supernatural entity. Let me explain.
Electromagnetism
Electromagnetism refers to an invisible [...]

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