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A report by 60 top scientists, including 20 Nobel Prize winners, says the Bush government distorts scientific facts “to prevent the appearance of advice that might run counter to the administration’s political agenda.” Dr. Kurt Gottfried says, “We are not?taking issue with the administration’s policies. We are taking issue with the administration’s distortion of the process with which science enters into its decisions.” Neal Lane says, “I am afraid that our leading policymakers simply don’t know what they don’t know given the manipulation of the science advice process.”
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In these months before the Presidential election, when would-be Democratic candidates are campaigning furiously, it’s interesting to note that few of them seem to be appealing to the U.S. Muslim vote. This is because, despite Republican-led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, most U.S. Muslims vote Republican. According to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), 78% of Muslims voted Republican in 2000, probably because they have conservative social values.
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Researcher Charles Goldman is an expert on “Tessie,” the deep sea creature that reportedly lives in Lake Tahoe. He’s now working with Robert Rains, who used sonar in the 1970s to take strobed light photographs of “Nessie,” that show a humped creature 20 to 30 feet long. In Mexico, citizens and police are hunting for a “Wolfwoman.”
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Is a acupuncture just a placebo? Scientists think it may convince people that it’s making them better?so it does. They can’t figure out how else it could work. In the recent movie “21 Grams,” a narrator says that people who have been weighed just before and after death have been found to have lost 21 grams (less than an ounce), so that must be the weight of the soul. Where did this idea come from?and is it true?
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