Radio Freethinker

Radio Freethinker Episode 151 – Artificial cell walls, Scientology evolving, Vitamin woo, and the Pseudoscience of “positive thinking”

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Skeptical News:

Artificial Cell Wall

• http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja2076873?prevSearch=Devaraj&searchHistoryKey=
• http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressreleases/envelope_for_an_artificial_cell/
• http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v473/n7347/full/473403a.html
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18218864
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14657399
• http://www.sciencemag.org/content/329/5987/52.short

Scientology Evolving?

• http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/04/high-profile-scientologist-blasts-church-leader-for-hoarding-money/
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/03/scientologist-email-debbie-cook-miscavige?newsfeed=true
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/04/debbie-cook-former-scientology-leader-church-greedy_n_1183919.html

Are those vitamins doing more harm than good?

• http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/conditions/vitamins/are-those-vitamins-doing-more-harm-than-good/article2294494/

Topics:

The Pseudoscience of “Positive Thinking”

• http://www.successconsciousness.com/index_000009.htm
• http://www.skepdic.com/lawofattraction.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_thinking
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Vincent_Peale

Skeptical Highlights:

Nigerian Witch Hunter comes to America
If you are:
•In bondage , Having bad dreams, Under a witchcraft attack or oppression ,Possessed by mermaid spirits or other evil spirits, Barren and having frequent miscarriages, Experiencing an unsuccessful life of disappointment, Experiencing financial impotency with difficulties, Facing victimization and a lack of promotion,  Experiencing a stagnant life with failures???
…You need not wait for too long. Helen Ukpabio, a Nigerian evangelist, will be traveling to the United States in March where she will be preaching in Texas. Ukpabio has reversed the exportation of religious extreme is as she takes her witch-hunting tour of the USA. She is the result of Pentecostal mission to Africa, where missionaries eagerly exploit local myths to promote their own evangelical aim…regardless of the harm it may do to society or the unfortunate sacrificial lambs.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-mungai/americans-should-protest-_b_1191387.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/us/22beliefs.html

Darwin Day 2012 – To celebrate the life and scientific contributions of Charles Darwin Centre For Inquiry Okanagan and the UBCO Freethoughts are proud to present lectures both on Darwin in the historical context and present the evidence for his theory. They include “Darwin, Nature, and God” by James Hull, and “Almost like a whale: Darwin and the origin of whales” by Jessica Theodor. Coffee will be served, admission is free with donations graciously accepted. Sunday, February 12, 2012 at 1:00pm until 4:30pm. Facebook Event Here

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