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To: Alamo-Girl
Everything that I posted is from a credible source. You may disagree with them, and certainly Abraham has a Buddhist tilt, but they aren’t “tin foil” types either.

You're arguing from authority. There's a huge literature on EM effects on living matter. The 16 ton elephant of all this research is that there's no credible mechanism supported by elementary physics that permits chemical alteration of matter by low intensity, low frequency EM fields. The epidemiological studies, as such studies generally do, disagree with each other. But in any case, correlation does not mean causation.

But again, look at what I pointed out. 'Creation science' appears to be correlated with fringe theories about physics, biological effects of EM fields that are rejected by mainstream science, Velikovskianism, etc.. How curious that this amazing edifice of science, that has been so successful in so many areas, has gotten it so badly wrong so often, and these errors have been detected only by a few lone prophetic figures. Doesn't that make you want to step back and say 'hmmmm'?

Reject modern science if you wish. There are lots of perfectly happy, very very busy people out there constructing comprehensive world views out of tinfoil and Tesla's wilder ideas and contrails. Mostly they're harmless, and leave the rest of us alone.

I have a former student, scientifically very bright, technically enormously talented, who was convinced people (more precisely, his enemies, who include various well-known figures in the community and the Democratic National Committee) were beaming messages to him through his clothes and his car radio. He's scientifically literate, highly intelligent, and paranoid schizophrenic. I realized in dealing with him that at some stage you stop arguing what he's saying is impossible, and try to insist that regardless of how it stops him from developing his ideas, it's really important he take his medication. Very few people can live with untreated schizophrenia in the manner of 'A Beautiful Mind'. Unlike Nash, he hasn't realized yet he's nuttier than Chunky-style Skippy.

I just I figured I'd point out the direction you're going, and that it's 90 degrees away from sanity. But carry on. Until you realize for yourself you're taking big steps further and further into lunacy, arguing with you will do no good.

843 posted on 02/23/2003 7:37:03 AM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor; Alamo-Girl
The 16 ton elephant of all this research is that there's no credible mechanism supported by elementary physics that permits chemical alteration of matter by low intensity, low frequency EM fields.

As BB has pointed out, we live in a sea of electromagnetic field, the strongest of which are man made. If we had any mechanism at all for detecting them, we would not need radio receivers.

I would love to find a good article describing the physics of EEG instruments. The stuff I've found on the web has been written at the kiddie level. There are a number of things about EEG that cause me to think: why do the sensors have to be attached to the skin? Are they picking up EM or are they detecting voltage fluctuations? In other words, are they detecting radio waves or electrochemical fluctuations. This inquiring mind wants to know.

844 posted on 02/23/2003 7:58:03 AM PST by js1138
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To: Right Wing Professor
Sheesh, that wasn't very nice at all...
851 posted on 02/23/2003 10:14:26 AM PST by Nataku X (Never give Bush any power you wouldn't want to give to Hillary.)
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To: Right Wing Professor
Biological sociology *is* evolution and it should be taught under anthropology ...

or maybe speculative geography // WHACK religions or political science ===

arts // humanity // CRAFTS ... THEATRE === drama !
855 posted on 02/23/2003 10:57:42 AM PST by f.Christian (( + God *IS* Truth + love *courage*// LIBERTY *logic* *SANITY*Awakening + ))
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