SkeptiNews 000611b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/10_06_2000.html * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * Site of latest notices, praises, discoveries: http://skeptilog.pitas.com * No to produce this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MASSIVE SOLAR X-CLASS FLARES: http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # World Awash in Chlorine-Based Poisons - Plastic Trash Bags To PVC Pipe. WASHINGTON DC (ENS) - Agent Orange, DDT, PCBs - they are famous chemicals, notoriously toxic - notoriously banned. Yet they' and their legal cousins, continue to contaminate the environment, wildlife, our food & our bodies. Antidote: ban'em all. http://ens.lycos.com/ens/jun2000/2000L-06-08-06.html # THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS EAT RAW WORMS FOR BREAKFAST/LUNCH/DINNER! ATLANTA, Ga. -- A disgusting -- and potentially deadly -- new food fad is sweeping the country: A diet consisting almost entirely of raw, slimy red fishing worms! EATING red worms can irritate the stomach lining and expose you to potentially fatal illnesses. http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1971.html # Pot Shrinks Tumors - U.S. Government Knew It In 1974 - story suppressed for quarter century: http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=9257 # Teen Drug And Cigarette Use Up Substantially - US youths are junkies: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000608/ts/health_youth_dc_1.html : Does your conspiracy plot to toxify the world?Have you ingested many toxic substances lately? D'ya prefer DDT, tobacco, cannabis, raw worms, booze, me? Should these substances be banned, even if they provide simple pleasures?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # The "dark continent" of the soul was Freud's asinine description of female sexuality.Inspired by the success of Viagra,modern science can do better-- or can it? http://newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/us/st/a20086-2000may21.htm # TRADITIONAL SMOKING PROGRAMS DON'T HELP GIRLS, WOMEN - gender differences in addiction and recovery: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/22580.rhtml @ Look at India to see the danger in using privacy "rights" to advance the cause of women's equality: http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR25.2/nussbaum.html Traditional French lover asserting dominance is gone, castrated by feminism: www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000166941319210&pg=/et/00/5/19/tlecol19.html # DO YOUR BOOBS LOOK LIKE PANCAKES? PITTSBURGH, Pa. -- Fitness trainer Tina Merenen believes any woman can have big boobs if she wants to -- and she's proving it with a special support group that helps flat-chested gals boost their bust size. Her unique group, called Big Bust or Bust, already has 147 members around US. http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1985.html : What's your favorite gender issue?Are your sexuality/physicality/spiritua- lity challenged/enhanced/diverted by y'r gender/species/physiognomy?Have you (de)sexualized anyone lately? Did you use ideology/weaponry/chemistry/toys? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # ZIPRASIDONE MAY QUIET MOTOR AND VOCAL TICS IN YOUNG TOURETTE'S PATIENTS. Ziprasidone, a novel antipsychotic, may be effective in diminishing motor and vocal tics in children and adolescents with Tourette's syndrome or chronic tic disorder. Shhhh: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/22585.rhtml # NICOTINE MAY IMPROVE ATTENTIVENESS IN TOURETTE'S. Nicotine patch and other nicotinic agents have shown promise as treatments for Tourette's syndrome in preliminary clinical studies: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/22574.rhtml # WITCH DOCTORS CRIPPLE EACH OTHER WITH EVIL CURSES! KAREMA, Tanzania -- Two feuding witch doctors have crippled each other, killed an assortment of livestock and brought calamity to their villages in a bitter battle of evil curses and spells! http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1980.html : Are you cursed by biology, mages, deities, spies, me? Do you have any hope of treatment/remission/miracles? Do antipsychotics/narcotics/toxins/magicks have positive/negative/null effects? Are your livestock cursed too? How bad? # Psychologist Adrian Raine argues that for a small minority, violence is not a matter of choice. So is it right to judge them by our moral standards? http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinion_223819.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 'Remains' of St John the Baptist recovered. Greek police have found boxes containing relics that clergy claim are some of the remains of St John the Baptist. They were stolen from a church in Thessaloniki more than a month ago. The boxes are also said to contain relics of Orthodox Christian holy men. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/greece_heritage-religion_20326.html # Ancient text raises NEW JESUS MYSTERY. Where has Christ REALLY been for the past 2,000 years? ISTANBUL, Turkey -- The discovery of a tiny scrap of ancient parchment -- believed to be a fragment of a lost book of the Bible -- has spawned a baffling new Jesus mystery! A theologian who has translated the document says it proves that, contrary to some church teachings, Jesus has been on Earth in the flesh virtually the entire time since His crucifixion. http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1975.html : Have your found the bodies [living and/or dead and/or divine and/or alien] of any holy guys/gals/critters/whatever lately? Do they keep coming & going, rematerializing & disappearing,turning up in odd places? Can you keep track? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # TREATMENT FOR PSYCHOPATHS IS LIKELY TO MAKE THEM WORSE. When it comes to treating psychopaths, Robert Hare, PhD, offers you but one succinct bit of advice: 'Don't waste your time. Nothing you do can make any difference at all.' http://psychiatry.medscape.com/22597.rhtml # 'INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOPATHS' CAN THRIVE IN BUSINESS. Not all psychopaths end up in prison. Some climb the corporate ladder swiftly and quite successfully. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/22596.rhtml # BOSSES MAKE OFFICE WORKERS WEAR HELMETS! LOS ANGELES -- Workmen's compen- sation complaints are getting so out of hand in American business offices that some company presidents demand that their employees wear helmets on the job! Some have mandated that all workers - from secretaries and office boys all the way to top-management executives - wear protective headgear while at work. http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1967.html : Do you work with/for psychopaths? Are you psychopathic?Are you successful? How do you measure success? Has anyone tried treating you? What happened? Do you resent being treated like a psychopath? D'ya make it work for you? How? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Great philosophers are obsolete, and it's Max Weber's fault. His vision of rational and valueless social science has taken their place -- for now. http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0005/articles/manent.html # Unemployed philosophers are often loath to seek jobs outside of academe. But is critical thought really found only in the ivory tower? Why not? http://www.britannica.com/bcom/original/article/0,5744,6237,00.html # Jacques Derrida says he cannot listen in earnest to anyone talking in a southern French dialect.Do serious thinkers really need to axe the accent? http://www.sundayherald.com/news/newsi.hts?section=7-Days&story_id=8477 : Who are your favorite philosophers? Do they talk funny? Do you? Are they employed? Are you? Is philosophy obsolete? Was it ever relevant? When? How? [ the above, and much more, via http://cybereditions.com/aldaily/ ] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." --Carl G. Jung * Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX: 603-415-3736 * SkeptiNews bulletins now *ONLINE* at: http://skeptinews.pitas.com/ * Fringes of Thought, Experience, Behavior, Knowledge, Foreboding... <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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