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The Sirius film - Ufo's "revelations"
by yoann, posted: 25 Apr 2013 32 - Category: Pseudoscience
Hi there, I am really concerned about a movie to be released in a week or so, called the Sirius Film. It claims to be bring a "new light",...
Rebirth and past life experiences
by Logical Thinker, posted: 19 Apr 2013 50 - Category: Pseudoscience
Hey everyone..!!! I'm an atheist brought up in an atheistic Buddhist environment. Everything I learned in my religion or better call it a philosophy, were more like logical stuff and everything was about reasoning, and nothing to...
Is it worth it?
by bob_e_s, posted: 10 Apr 2013 22 - Category: Pseudoscience
On the recommendation of another RDN user, I signed up for the Introduction to Astrobiology course on Coursera, run by Edinburgh University. While it attracted a lot of like-minded people either with...
Faith healing finding the science behind the pseudoscience
by stegeta9000, posted: 08 Apr 2013 10 - Category: Pseudoscience
Hi all, I am a very curious person and I must question everything and also try to rationalize everything, however there are some issues that I have no explanation for, this does...
Graham Hancock and Ruper Sheldrake allege to have had their TEDx talks banned
by dilated_in_disbelief, posted: 26 Mar 2013 46 - Category: Pseudoscience
At the TEDxWhitechapel event that took place on January 13th, 2013, Graham Hancock and Rupert Sheldrake gave their own talks. Their talks did not meet the scientific standards of TED's advisory board, so TED decided...
The greatest hoax on earth ?
by Nathan Henderson, posted: 18 Mar 2013 50 - Category: Pseudoscience
Recently, I have been rather obliged to read the book 'The Greatest Hoax On Earth, refuting Dawkins on evolution' by a friend, because I made him read the original Dawkins book, and I have written a 20 page...
A new crackpot theory Christians are preaching
by hueman0un, posted: 06 Mar 2013 57 - Category: Pseudoscience
 That god created the building blocks of life..or matter itself..THEN evolution occured...the fact of the matter is evolution has been strongly proven..rather than look even more foolish than debate evolution which many christians do they...
I have personal problem with NLP - I have reasons to belive NLP is braiwashing my girlfriend and putting her in danger
by Merlin Dewize, posted: 09 Feb 2013 25 - Category: Pseudoscience
Dear Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science,I was born in Poland and remember seeing Pope John Paul II when 3 years old. I am now 26 and one of my...
Homeopathy in NHS Lothian
by Sensitive Outsider, posted: 15 Nov 2012 19 - Category: Pseudoscience
Hello everyone,This is a note to everyone who lives in the Lothian's area of Scotland mainly,however it might be of interest to others as well.NHS Lothian is currently running a consultation on whether homeopathy should...
Help - my childs school is teaching creationism as a theory
by Gitesh, posted: 12 Nov 2012 33 - Category: Pseudoscience
My child started a new non-denominational school in September. I was very concerned to learn that the School will be teaching creationism as  a theory. I queried this with my child's teacher and below is the response I received:"Sorry...
New age, horoscopes, reincarnation, levitation etc
by Bumbi, posted: 25 Sep 2012 96 - Category: Pseudoscience
I have a very close person in my life who is the exact opposite of me.  We have had endless discusions on the topic of reason and belief but to no avail. I have read a...
Should we spend more time combating Eastern religious nonsense?
by Enkidu90046, posted: 28 Aug 2012 162 - Category: Pseudoscience
My wife, an atheist and very intelligent woman, regularly gets acupuncture despite the fact I have repeatedly informed her that the best evidence is that the pain relieving aspects of acupuncture are entirely placebo effects....