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What are the best books on Atheism?

Here is a short list of the best books on atheism that I myself have read and loved on the recent years. These are also the books that I think every thinking person interested in atheism should read when he or she is starting a voyage to for many so [...]

Science-Based Medicine » Yes We Can! We Can Abolish the NCCAM! Part II

The NCCAM itself does not provide “reliable information about commonly used ‘CAM’ practices.” Rather, it bends over backward—in some instances making categorically false statements—to portray absurd, dangerous, implausible, or disproved practices as safer and more promising than they are.

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Stem cell therapy helps patients with multiple sclerosis in small study: Scientific American Blog

A new stem cell therapy improved the symptoms of early-stage multiple sclerosis (MS) in 80 percent of patients enrolled in a small clinical trial published today in The Lancet Neurology.

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Pharyngula: University of Vermont makes an embarrassing decision

Guess who UVM is bringing in to deliver their commencement address?
Ben Stein.
I am very sorry, seniors at that otherwise fine university. You’re going to have a hack wingnut with a history of incompetence at economics, politics, and science standing up and giving you advice. I don’t know what the [...]

‘Let’s talk sense about our origins’ by Simon Barnes, Times Online – RichardDawkins.net

Dinosaurs are not extinct. I know, I saw plenty this week. I went dinosaur-watching, and saw Circus aeruginosus, Recurvirostra avosetta and Tyto alba. I didn’t even have to travel too far to find them: they are part of the landscape of East Suffolk. They [...]