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Skeptic Summary #176

Hell, Randi, telepathy, PZ is my hero, girls and boys, get a human and more!

Hell, your final destination? - But who’s driving the overcrowded bus?

How we stopped Randi’s Million-Dollar Challenge - Or not.

Telepathy and whatnot - What? Not.

Editor’s Choice: When cdesign proponentists attack - PZ’s got a gun!

From the Archives: Can’t say ‘Boys and Girls’ anymore? - The SFN talks gender differences.

gethuman 500 database

Imagine calling a well-known large company and having a human answer the phone. Well, forget about it. It’s not going to happen. So, here is the next best thing. The gethuman 500 database is the fastest way to get a human to talk to, complain to, order from and whatever else an actual live company representative can help you with. It’s a shortcut through the maze of computerized keypad choices put there to slow you down or prevent you from actually talking to a real live person.

Not that a real live person can necessarily get the job done for you. In my experience with, shall we say, Time Warner, you might have, as I have had, the misfortune to deal with a real live person whose soul has been sucked dry by the company they work for, leaving you just as frustrated as you would have been playing with your keypad looking for answers.

Most of the time you’re going to end up talking to a human once you have successfully negotiated the maze anyhow, so why not take a shortcut?

Happy calling!!!

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The Cure Within: a History of Mind-Body Medicine, by Anne Harrington.



“In fluid prose and with the precision of a detective story, Harrington offers a taxonomy of the main narratives that we draw on to try to make sense of disease, whether they emphasize our ability to heal ourselves or more magical interventions. The root of most of our mind-body narratives is the Bible and other religious writings that describe the struggle against ‘possession’ by demonic forces… [She] shows us that, whatever science reveals about the cause and course of disease, we will continue to tell ourselves stories, and try to use our own metaphors to find meaning in randomness.”

— Jerome Groopman, New York Times

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