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Is atheism a prerequisite for skepticism?

Over at JDC’s blog, a post entitled The Trouble with Skeptics detailing a list of ten pitfalls for the good skeptic to avoid has sparked a mini-debate about whether skeptics need to be atheists, or whether “religious skeptic” is a valid term. This is something that I’ve been wanting to write about since starting this [...]

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Laetrile will relieve you of your money, not your cancer

In this post, I will be discussing the misguided notion that laetrile (aka amygdalin or, misleadingly, “vitamin B17″) acts as an effective therapy against cancer, with particular attention to the website “World Without Cancer“. This is not because it’s been in the news recently, but because of this site’s “Google positioning”, so to speak: googling [...]

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