Interesting.
New Scientist is the only science magazine worth reading. Discover is virtually all fiction, and Scientific American has gone down so low that it's a waste of paper. New Scientist strives to be objective.
Some other thoughts
1. Nice description of the placebo effect. This is far too often exaggerated and VERY misrepresented. My thought is something Pavolovian is going on. The brain is working in conjunction with the morphine. This shouldn't be that hard to work out.
2. I tend to be an Old Earth Creationist sort of guy, but for all those folks who bash on the Young Earth ideas (although the supporters invite and deserve much of it) just a reminder that things are not as neatly worked out as your HS science teacher claims. Can someone now kick Eugenie Scott in the head please?
4. I'm still not convinced. I suggest the dilution work is not as the experimenters want. Perhaps surface effects of the reaction vessels...perhaps stronger hydrogen bonding w/ the ultra-pure water.
5. See #2. And never bash someone for believing on "faith".
6. Whatever sells newspapers. We've got plenty of probes going to Mars. This will be worked on.
7. <a href='http://www.spectrometer.org/path/nrays.html' target='_blank'>N-rays anyone?</a> Stupid french.
9. Uh see #5. Guess we really only have 12 mysteries... :snore:
12. Scientific hubris. Not that interesting.
