Like no one else, he sought to understand what it means to be responsible.… Read the rest
Faith Whatting?
Jul 2nd, 2005 2:42 am | By Ophelia BensonThey’re getting closer…and closer…and closer.
They’ve reached Cleveland, for instance.
The Cleveland health education museum will open its doors to faith healer Dr. Issam Nemeh on July 10, creating an unusual venue for a purported miracle healing service. HealthSpace Cleveland waived the customary $5,000 rental fee for Nemeh, said Patricia Horvath, the executive director. “We decided not to charge them because a number of board members are supporters of Dr. Nemeh’s work,” Horvath said. “We see spiritual health in the holistic view of overall health,” she said.
The Cleveland what education museum? The Cleveland health what museum? The Cleveland health education what? Don’t you mean the Cleveland bide-a-wee home for bullshitters? The Cleveland theatre of wooerpgahwackawacka? The Cleveland we … Read the rest
Oath? What oath? Want some vitamins?
Jul 2nd, 2005 2:08 am | By Ophelia BensonWhat was that thing Hippocrates said? Something about first doing no harm, wasn’t it? Or am I misremembering – maybe it was first bend your arm, or first wear this charm, or first wind up that yarn. Must have been, because the ‘do no harm’ thing doesn’t always seem to be uppermost in the minds of certain kinds of ‘healers’ – but maybe that kind doesn’t take a Hippocratic oath anyway. Maybe that’s what ‘complementary and alternative’ means. There’s this Rath Foundation for instance.
… Read the restAnd so to Africa, where there exist “complementary and alternative medicine” practitioners pursuing the fashionable attack on mainstream medicine, just like in the UK. Take Matthias Rath and the Rath Foundation vitamin empire. They have been
Review of Rebecca Goldstein on Gödel
Jul 1st, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe consequences of Gödel’s ideas, and the conundrum of the man himself. … Read the rest
Social Neuroscience, Belief, the Amygdala
Jul 1st, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTo understand how the brain makes sense of the world.… Read the rest
‘Alternative Medicine’ in Africa
Jul 1st, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSelling expensive vitamins as Aids treatment.… Read the rest
Anti-smoking Ads Focus on Going Limp
Jul 1st, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAlso compare smokers’ teeth to smelly female genitalia.… Read the rest
Cleveland Health Education Museum Does What?!
Jul 1st, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOpens doors to ‘faith healer’. Is everyone crazy?… Read the rest
AAA Votes to Rescind 2002 Report
Jul 1st, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOn allegations of research misconduct by scholars studying the Yanomami.… Read the rest
Don’t Forget to Vote for Greatest Philosopher
Jul 1st, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonListen to Julian Baggini, Anthony Grayling, Alan Ryan on their picks.… Read the rest
Mere Featherless Bipeds
Jul 1st, 2005 2:12 am | By Ophelia BensonThis article by Carlin Romano raises a lot of very interesting issues. I don’t know nearly enough (by which I mean I know nothing at all) about the subject to judge how fair or accurate any of it is – but the issues raised are interesting in any case, and I propose to mumble over them, so there.
… Read the restThe desire to portray great thinkers as disembodied argument machines remains a powerful force in analytic philosophy. Think of it as a slice of amour-propre, part of the arrogant wish to be seen as timelessly, noncontingently right about everything. It can move acolytes to depict thinker-heroes as dynamos of pure intellect rather than peers: mere featherless bipeds whose thoughts bear clear markings