Santa Claus exists. And tooth fairies. And mermaids. Oh, and so do you…
Small children believe in Santa Claus. They are thrilled when the presents arrive and even try to find proof that …
Category Archives: Belief
Καλή Ανάσταση! (On the irrationality of the modern belief in death)
Happy Easter! (“Καλή Ανάσταση” in Greek literally means ‘Happy Resurrection’) And let not the irrationality of the miracle of resurrection …
Placebo.
Give people a sugar pill, they have shown, and those patients – especially if they have one of the chronic, …
Believing in the brain…
Humans constantly experience an ever-changing stream of subjective feelings that is only interrupted during sleep and deep unconsciousness. Finnish researches …
Reproducibility problem.
A team co-led by Gideon Nave of Penn’s Wharton School replicated 21 high-profile social science studies and found discrepancies with …
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