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New health treatments include an insulin replacement for diabetes, a vaccine for stomach-related cancers, a breakthrough in MS involving the hypothalamus gland, and a vaccine that blocks the need for nicotine.And it goes on. All of her specific medical predictions are stories that broke well before her interview, sometimes by years! It's worth a read just to get some familiarity with some general psychic predictions. Either so vague it doesn't matter, or specific because they pull from known fact. Whatever the case, they aren't supernatural.
A very quick Google search on "insulin replacement" found this.
A search for "vaccine for stomach-related cancers" found this:
Korean breakthrough on stomach cancer (08/12)[...]
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Also from Randi this week: "Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby."
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Are psychics really an issue? Do they... do things? I feel like this is going outside and getting mad at the grass for being dead at this time of year.
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Lucas, on 1/16/2006 6:32 PM
As an issue... for The Lazy Skeptic... most certainly! :)
But maybe you can elaborate? Do you mean that psychics only affect those that choose to be?
If that's the question, I aggree, I think psychics/mediums mostly affect those that are most desperate for such things. But they do cause damage. Some people so badly want an answer, they will justify illogical means of deriving that answer. This leads to stories of grieving people getting false messages from their loved and lost ones, having their memories distorted. I see it as generally, the most accepted form of magical thinking today, next to homeopathy.
But to me, the problem is the more gobbledy-gook we accept the more that will creep in. In cases of Facilitated Communication, many parents were wrongly accused of child molestation because some facilitator, using a debunked method, "facilitated" incapacitated children to say as much. The more this rubbish is allowed to be accepted through in-action, the more it makes it's way to the mainstream, and will be forced upon us.
That said, I don't disagree at all with your comparison of psychics to dead-grass. I just think it's possible for some people to see something in dead-grass that just isn't there. And what if everyone you grew up with was pissed at the dead-grass. It wouldn't be so hard for you to fall into that way of thinking as well.
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Aaron, on 1/16/2006 9:47 PM
Some people so badly want an answer, they will justify illogical means of deriving that answer.
If that's the case, are they really going to listen to a reasoned argument? I'm just saying, if people are open to logical discourse, they probably already don't take psychics seriously. And if they are already embracing psychics, they're probably also the type to dismiss your logic as being "closed-minded".
Maybe I'm just bitter that psychics are delaying your "does shaving really enhance beard growth?" article. I don't know the answer to that. I thirst for that knowledge.
Psychics? Enh.
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Lucas, on 1/17/2006 12:26 PM
I know I won't be able to reach some people. I know people that might be reachable, might not be with my techniques. I'm mostly "preeching to the chior" here with psychic stuff. But perhaps there are people on the cusp. Maybe I can reach those people?
And about shaving and beard growth. You asked and shale receive...
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Aaron, on 1/18/2006 10:15 AM
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