The Credulity Of NPR Regarding Miracles

"If the Catholic church believes that saints are pipelines to God who can provide special cures, how come prayer to saints hasn’t restored lost eyes or amputated limbs? Why is it only diseases known to spontaneously regress that the incipient (or established) saints can “cure”? Isn’t that a remarkable coincidence?"

NPR touts Mother Teresa’s “miracles”

Why The Huffington Post Should Never Be Read For Science Information

"One of the latest contributions from HuffBlow to the national dialogue comes courtesy of self-described teenage 'food safety activist' Rachel Parent, who skyrocketed to fame after giving an anti-GMO talk for Tedx and debating Kevin O'Leary. Her new article is titled "GMO Propaganda Has No Place In Your Child's Classroom." She then goes on to regurgitate her own propaganda."

Huffington Post Wants to 'Teach the Controversy' on GMOs

A "Breakthrough" In The Treatment Of Alzheimer's Disease?

"The first drug that can prevent Alzheimer’s disease is finally on the horizon after scientists proved they can clear the sticky plaques from the brain which cause dementia and halt mental decline."

A note of caution:  there have been many "breakthroughs" that have fizzled out in the history of medical research.

Alzheimer's: New drug that halts mental decline is 'best news for dementia in 25 years'

Physical Therapists Do This Now, So Why Bother?

"The blunt truth is that if Walker and his chiropractic colleagues transition their profession to evidence-based practice and do so with intellectual honesty, they will almost certainly find that their profession is not all it's cracked up to be."

The Answer is "No."

The Majority Of Americans Believes This Story Is Literally True

The statistics are sobering, "Because for 60 percent of Americans it is literally, word-for-word true. For Protestants, that figure is 73 percent. For Evangelicals, it’s 87 percent."  This should be the Poster Child for our crisis of science illiteracy.

The Leaky Noah’s Ark Tale (part 1 of 2)

The Leaky Noah's Ark Tale (part 2 of 2)

Are They Miracles Or Natural Spontaneous Remissions?

With the soon-to-be Sainthood of Mother Teresa comes discussion of how someone is declared a Saint by the Catholic Church.  Traditionally, for an individual to be declared a Saint, two "certified" miracles must be credited to prayer directed to the prospective Saint.  Left out of the Church's declaration regarding these miracles is skeptical consideration of the natural and frequent phenomenon of spontaneous remission of medical problems, to include serious forms of cancer.

The Questionable Doctor Who Flies Under The Radar

"Yet despite this heightened concern about the accuracy of health information, best-selling celebrity neurologist Dr. David Perlmutter seems to have escaped much scrutiny, even though he has a decades-long history of offering — and profiting from — suspect medical advice."

The Problem With David Perlmutter, the Grain Brain Doctor

A Look At Mother Teresa As She Becomes A Saint

"How rational is Catholicism, and how rational is this phony, cooked-up way of declaring that some person gets a special telephone line to God?"

" - - - the legend of Agnes Bojaxhiu is impervious to fact, just as Catholicism itself is impervious to fact."

Aerobic Exercise And Schizophrenia

"New research further supports the benefits of exercise for mental health, after finding aerobic physical activity could help treat the symptoms of schizophrenia."

Schizophrenia symptoms eased with aerobic exercise

Pseudoscience 101

The term "pseudoscience" simply means "false knowledge."  Any process that seeks knowledge outside of established and justified scientific methods is a pseudoscience.  All religions and alternatives to medicine are included in its definition.  Following are links expanding on this definition:

The Subtle Assumption Of Unsupported Dogma By The Media

"What newswriter (anchors don’t write their own copy) would say such a thing—and get away with it? The sooner that newspapers and television stop tacitly assuming that we live on after death, the better."

NBC News tacitly accepts Heaven

Challenges To Scientific Research Not Published

"The authors believe that one way to address this problem would be to link to rebuttals in the original papers so that readers understand that the paper is contested."

Virtually nobody reads or understands rebuttals to scientific findings