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Scientific evidence for products and services

More scientific evidence needed

Charlatans and Science

I suppose eating and drinking most things in moderation would surely do us no real harm, but what does harm people are the charlatans who peddle their wares extracting huge amounts of hard earned cash from us.



Be prepared to face up to the astonishing truth that nearly everything you see and hear is entirely without scientific evidence to prove that it is true. Scientific evidence allows us to be alive.

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25-4-2008I must take issue with the comment about homeopathy. I had a scientific education & can see that as far as we know at the moment it should not work, however it does! Please don't say it's the placebo effect because it also works on animals. I take a homeopathic remedy for travel sicknes...moregrumpyoldwoman
18-11-2007One small portion of the Human Race has found it is able easily to fool the remainder into believing whatever they say or do is true. This tiny portion gains extraordinary power when it does this. This power grants members of this portion all kinds of special privileges, so this portion tries to see...moreScavenger
18-11-2007Skepticism is good in conjunction with all the minds abilities along with determination and imagination. Lot’s of inventors were at one point or another laughed at until they succeed, and some did not. That’s human nature. What bothers me is skeptics are popping up everywhere and bein...moreVonGoth
06-10-2006The Buddhas teachings are very easy to come by, we see them everywhere we go and experience them in every breath.jk12
01-10-2006JK, that saying you quoted was amazing, please canyou tell me where you got it from?Rays
27-9-2006"Be your own light, your own refuge. Believe only that which you test for yourself. Do not accept authority merely because it comes from a great man, or is written in a sacred book, for truth is different for each man and woman." Gautama Siddharta A.K.A the Buddha Perhaps if you all tr...morejk12
21-9-2006What is some hard proof that ghosts are real, and aren't real?????Jade Hopkins
18-9-2006Oh, just a thought. Maybe the rabble will think the voice is coming from 'god' again and start behaving :-).Nothing like a bit of fear of hell and damnation to get them behaving well!!Pensioner
18-9-2006Yes Attila, and voices coming from them now too..."get off your bike", "pick up your litter" , "stop beating that fellow to pulp". "yes you in the blue trousers". I wonder how long this shock tactic will work! Of course in my young day we were all taught about...morePensioner
16-8-2006Wow Mark, slow down! You've lost me completely (I was always more interested in medicine). I've always thought religion was a tool for subjugating the great unwashed (as were). Back when science was the pastime of gentlemen, not a career, the threat of eternal damnation was enough to make t...moreAttila the Mum
12-8-2006Scavenger..I must some day give you my 3 hour examination of the work of Rene Descartes, the nature of the non-physical mind and the basics of dualism! Great stuff...by the way do you know 'Cartesian Linguistics' by Noam Chomsky? What a read..you can stuff Harold Robbins right up your Dualis...moreMark
09-8-2006Aha, the Cartesian thinks he exists. I think he may be wrong.Scavenger of Souls



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