Tag: science dogmatism
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Brain "dead" and the Industry of Transplants...
Brain dead is not necessarily... “dead”! The fact is that the criteria for "death" based on "the death of the brain" were invented by a committee at Harvard (hence the "Harvard Criteria", based on 0 experiments by the way) the members of which had relations to organ transplantation. And today these criteria are used to support a multi-billion dollar industry…
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Psychiatry, biology, neurology, stupidity.
Just weeks before the long-awaited publication of a new edition of the so-called bible of mental disorders, the federal government’s most prominent psychiatric expert has said the book suffers from a scientific "lack of validity". The expert, Dr. Thomas R. Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, said in an interview Monday that…
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Physics constants. Not so... constant!
Physics knows many constants. But how... constant are they? Sheldrake did a research in physics books. He looked for the "constants" of nature. And was surprised to find that these "constants" changed during the years! Between 1928 and 1945 the constant of the speed of light dropped by 20 km/s. In 1948 it went up again.…
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TED, atheists, censorship…
TED is supposed to be a platform to facilitate the organization of talks about interesting subjects by interesting people. But when Sheldrake decided to talk about 10 dogmas of modern science (one of which is related to non-localized consciousness, which, according to the speaker, can exist outside of our brain) and when Hancock decided to talk about consciousness, dreams and psychedelia then…
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Electricity: Faster than light!
The experiments of Sir Charles Wheatstone showed that the velocity of electricity is about 288,000 miles per second, much greater than the speed of light, which we all consider as the ultimate barrier. [1, 2, 3, 4] However in order to interpret this we must understand what “electricity” is. In fact we do not have…
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