-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990823a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No pod people were hatched during production of this bulletin. We hope. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Naked ghosts scaring Iraqi drivers. BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Ghost stories are pretty common around the old Iraqi city of Haditha. Still, when the ghosts start dancing naked in front of oncoming motorists, it makes quite a stir. Drivers passing through Horan Valley outside the town of Haditha, 135 mi. northeast of Baghdad, reported that "ghosts appeared next to the bridge, naked and doing some acrobatic moves." Tales of ghosts in the Horan Valley are common, but these ghosts were "throwing themselves before cars, caus- ing the drivers to panic." Motorist Shawki Sabar said "they were almost human - although I could not concentrate on their looks because I was so scared and it was dark." And the opium/hashish mix was kicking in. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560814935-062 : Do you prefer ghosts naked, clothed, iridescent, neutral, garlanded, fat, skinny, evanescent, stick-like? Do you prefer ghostly people or vice-versa?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Absence makes males pine away. BOSTON (AP) So who pines away longer, men or women? Researchers say the more time spent apart after sex, the more eager men were to copulate with their lovers again. But women don't feel the same way - and it doesn't matter how much time has gone by since the couple last fucked. In a survey, women were generally unaffected by separ- ation. Men are unwittingly responding to an urge from way back in human evolution: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560802947-207 : Are you lonely tonight? Do you miss me tonight? Are you sorry weve drifted apart? Do you want to fuck again? Do you care that you're driving me mad?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Boys Programmed For Violence. BOSTON (AP) - Raising boys to be strong and silent is promoting the outbreak of mass school shootings and a broader, smoldering climate of despair among male teen-agers, experts suggest. "I think we have a national crisis of boys in America." Psychologists resp- onded to public concern over recent mass killings at schools, saying U.S. boys are still reared largely in keeping with the traditional code of male toughness, which encourages boys to take action but squelches expressions of feeling and gestures of physical affection by and toward boys. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560805049-759 : Are you a US male? Are you programmed to kill? Who directed the culture to instill violence into young males? Is this an ancient plot? Was is {JHWH}?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Lutherans reject gay pastors. DENVER (AP) The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America rejected a bid to axe its policy barring actively homosexual clergy. The denomination will continue to permit homosexual pastors who agree to a celibate lifestyle. A report from five denominational agencies said the 5.2-million member church should not shrink from "the sometimes discomforting experience of looking anew at our inherited tradition." See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560814355-302 : Does your belief system embrace discomforting experiences? Do your dogmas program violence into young men? Do your deities insist on such programming? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ http://newprayer.com/index.htm No one can doubt the Power of Prayer. How do we know if our prayers are heard? What do we know about the location of GOD? We know that GOD was at the birth of His universe. We know how the universe began - with a 'Big Bang'. We know Where the oldest part of the universe is located. We can transmit radio messages to this precise location. Why not transmit our prayers to where we know GOD resided? NewPrayer has designed and built a directional radio transmitter. For a small fee NewPrayer will transmit your prayers to this location. : Would you rather contact your deities by radio, telephone, blinker lights, signal flags, tom-toms, laser beams, xray pulses, gravitrons, hand gestures? How do you locate your deities? Do you use a compass, kirlianscope, dice?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE UK: # One in five choose alternative medicine. (BBC) A fifth of the British population uses alternative medicine, a survey for BBC Radio discovers. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_426000/426432.stm # Alternative medicine: Special report. (BBC) We examine the issues surroun- ding alternative medicine as research shows they are increasingly popular. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_425000/425986.stm # What is alternative medicine? (BBC) Not all practitioners agree on what constitutes alternative - some deny there is anything "alternative" about practices that predate many modern treatments. Some merely nod sagely. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_425000/425999.stm # Popular 'alternative' remedies: A guide. (BBC) From acupuncture to yoga, all you need to know about the most commonly used therapies. But do they work? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_426000/426002.stm # The quest for evidence. (BBC) Many doctors dismiss alternative medicine as unproven, ineffective & potentially dangerous nonsense - leading advocates to seek the kind of evidence that will persuade the scientific community at large. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_426000/426003.stm # The alternative set. (BBC) Some only turn to alternative medicine when all other treatments fail, others prefer it to conventional medicine - and more and more NHS practitioners are offering it to their patients. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_426000/426005.stm # Air crashes boost health. (BBC) People who survive an air disaster may end up with better mental health, researchers find. Crash and heal - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_426000/426261.stm # UK Doctors oppose home births. 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