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____/ Gregory Shearman on Friday 01 Jul 2011 12:39 : \____
> On 2011-07-01, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> ____/ Gregory Shearman on Friday 01 Jul 2011 06:47 : \____
>>
>>> On 2011-06-30, Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> My school taught me that an atom is a ball with electrons flying
>>>> around the outside of it in a linear fashion. That turned out to be
>>>> inaccurate too. Should I have launched a Jihad against all science
>>>> because of that fact?
>>>
>>> What is it now? A bunch of muons or gluons or whatever... I can't
>>> keep up.
>>>
>>>> Personally I don't believe in prayer, because I don't believe
>>>> there's a God to pray /to/, but I've heard enough doctors give up to
>>>> know science doesn't have all the answers, and I've seen enough
>>>> people beat the odds to know there's a lot to be said for mind over
>>>> matter, even if they use some dubious faith to encourage (or
>>>> comfort) them. Who am I (or you) to tell them they can't draw
>>>> strength from their beliefs, however dubious?
>>>
>>> I'm of the opinion that prayer works like a placebo. There's an
>>> expectation of success and so this carries through with a positive
>>> attitude towards success... better than negativity.
>>
>> The problem comes when people replace real treatment with this
>> placebo, like when the evangelicals have people throw away their pills
>> (and then die) so that they can do their charlatan gig and make a lot
>> of money.
>
> Yeah well, they're idiots. There's no help for the terminally stupid.
The problem is, those who are gullible on the fence. The last thing they need is
a fraud like Popoff killing them for profit.
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