1. Goblins in the cupboard
(Paranormal/General)

...walk under a ladder, putting our beds up on bricks, shutting our women away while they're menstruating, avoiding black cats, blaming lightning on witches or ill fortune on a curse. Not easily disl...

2. Trouble ahead for science
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science profess belief in a personal God. Stein, avoiding these 50,000 people, tells viewers that "Darwinists" don't allow scie...

3. Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?
(Science/General)

...k music and pop culture courses on everything from sitcoms to fat that trivialize college-level learning. Avoiding the liberal or conservative label in this particular argument, she prefers to call ...

4. US military accused of harboring fundamentalism
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...ds of conduct for the Armed Forces and military equal opportunity policies address the freedom of religion, avoiding discrimination because of religion." But Weinstein argued that most personne...

5. The Moral Instinct
(Religion/General)

...fferent switch settings. Health vegetarians avoid meat for practical reasons, like lowering cholesterol and avoiding toxins. Moral vegetarians avoid meat for ethical reasons: to avoid complicity in th...

6. Are the 'New Atheists' avoiding the 'real arguments'?
(Religion/Atheism)

Recently, the popular and successful books of atheist authors such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens having been receiving some public criticism from religious quarters, with the most recent

7. Confessions of a Former Iridologist
(Medicine/General)

... iridologist's treatment guidelines and never develops a lung problem, the patient is congratulated for avoiding a future problem. If the patient refuses treatment for his lung problem and never d...