The Biggest Junk Science of 2018
Damage done by conspiracists. Here are few:
1. Measles Resurges Globally. Anti-vaxxers have been threatening to bring back measles for a few years now, and now, it seems they finally have.
2. The World Health Organization Endorses Traditional Chinese Medicine.Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is the largest pseudoscientific medical practice in the world. It is fundamentally based on the notion that vital energy (qi) circulates through bodily channels called meridians, and when this energy is out of balance, disease occurs. Like the four distinct bodily humours of ancient Hippocratic medicine, this energy does not exist and has no bearing on health.
3. The Trump Administration Still Denies Climate Change
11. Doctor Oz Endorses Astrology.
https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/20..._2018.html
Damage done by conspiracists. Here are few:
1. Measles Resurges Globally. Anti-vaxxers have been threatening to bring back measles for a few years now, and now, it seems they finally have.
2. The World Health Organization Endorses Traditional Chinese Medicine.Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is the largest pseudoscientific medical practice in the world. It is fundamentally based on the notion that vital energy (qi) circulates through bodily channels called meridians, and when this energy is out of balance, disease occurs. Like the four distinct bodily humours of ancient Hippocratic medicine, this energy does not exist and has no bearing on health.
3. The Trump Administration Still Denies Climate Change
11. Doctor Oz Endorses Astrology.
https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/20..._2018.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"