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____/ Gregory Shearman on Saturday 02 Jul 2011 11:35 : \____
> On 2011-07-01, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> ____/ 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.
>
> Evolution in action.
aka Darwin Awards :-)
But the victims in this case are usually old people desperate to live, not reckless skydivers.
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