My creationist
1 August 2014
Matthew Willey has a series of discussions about big questions.
Articles tagged with "faith"
Elton's latest a nightmare vision
1 May 2008
Blind Faith, by Ben Elton. Bantam Press. Reviewed by David Riddell.
The Answer's not 42
1 August 2002
Hamilton is a progressive place where the difficult issues are tackled. Rather than being a cow town (we're not! we're not!), we sit around of a Friday evening and debate the Big Questions.
Faith and expectation in the placebo effect
1 August 1990
The German physician, H. Rheder described the following clinical trial in 1955. In the local hospital were three patients under his care; one suffering from chronic gall bladder disease, a second from severe pancreatitis associated with weight loss, constipation and depression, and the third had an inoperable uterine cancer, with anaemia, weakness and massive accumulation of fluid in the abdomen.
American Faith Healers Again
1 August 1988
I had intended to make this issue one devoted to the conference and was going to reprint all the talks and discussions there. However the conference was such an overwhelming success and there was such a fine attendance, that it would be a waste to reprint what so many had heard in person. I therefore asked all those who spoke to give me their second thoughts on their talks, the things they meant to say but forgot, the replies they would like to have made in the discussions, the witty rejoinders that came to them in the middle of the night after we had all gone home. Most of the speakers have had nothing to add but I should like to make a correction to the impression left with my hearers.
On fanatical religious belief
1 August 1988
Futile dreams of apocalyptic grandeur
Skeptics make charitable offer
1 May 1988
The New Zealand Skeptics are offering $10,000 for a paranormal person.
American Faith Healers
1 November 1987
No two American faith healers are exactly alike since they are competing in a crowded market place, but they do have enough features in common to make a general survey possible. This account of how 'big name' healers work is put together from reports by skeptics who have attended their meetings.