1. It's not what the papers say, it's what they don't
(Medicine/General)

... have all decided that their readers are better off not knowing. Tick, tock. Does it stop there? No. Amateur physicians have long enjoyed speculating that MMR and other vaccinations are somehow "...

2. On a wing and a prayer
(Religion/Enforced religion)

... religious fervour. "Reliance on prayer and miraculous healing abounded," he wrote. "Secular physicians became extinct. Chants, potions, horoscopes and amulets were widely used. Dissec...

3. Quackery quashed, but Rath’s legacy lives
(Medicine/General)

...d a champion of all who are oppressed by pharmaceutical companies the world over. To wit, Rath is “the physician and scientist who led the breakthrough discoveries in the natural control of canc...

4. Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...concerns at the time: not only did they have Britain's suffocating libel laws to worry about, but Muslim physicians and engineers in the UK had just revealed a penchant for suicide bombing. I was ...

5. If God Is Dead, Who Gets His House?
(Religion/General)

...nal atheists, the word church is taboo, even if God is definitely not in residence. When Tim Gorski, a Texas physician, approached Paul Kurtz, an influential atheist who now chairs the Center for Inqu...

6. View from the lab: creationism
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...d, it has been moved to a theatre used to teach medieval history. The speaker, Dr Oktar Babuna, is a Turkish physician who claims to have been cured of leukaemia by prayer (perhaps he could be persuad...

7. Exorcism undergoes a revival across Europe
(Religion/General)

...ul not to treat people suffering from mental illness, and that they regularly consult with psychologists and physicians. At the same time, they said, conventional medical therapy often neglects spirit...

8. Atheism and Violence
(Religion/Atheism)

... upon which our faith in science rests—that even we seekers after knowledge today, we godless anti-metaphysicians, still take our fire, too, from the flame lit by a faith that is thousands of ye...

9. The Great Afterlife Debate: Michael Shermer v. Deepak Chopra
(Religion/General)

..., and in the next moment it is a lump of inert flesh. What happened in that moment? In 1907 a Massachusetts physician named Duncan MacDougall tried to find out by weighing six dying patients before a...

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

...ultants. The basic idea of the program appealed to me in that it involved studying directly under practicing physicians in a clinical atmosphere. My hope was that the knowledge I could gain would allo...