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1. A cat can be dead and alive Obviously, a cat is nothing like an individual photon in a controlled lab environment, it is much bigger and more complex. Any coherence that the trillions upon trillions of atoms that make up the cat might have with each other is extremely short-lived. This does not mean that quantum coherence is impossible in biological systems, just that it generally won't apply to big creatures such as cats or a human. 2. Simple analogies can explain entanglement Quantum particles are just mysteriously correlated in ways we can't describe with everyday logic or language...

Feminist Naomi Wolf’s new book has been canceled by its U.S. publisher after questions of accuracy were raised in Great Britain. Wolf’s dispute with Houghton Mifflin arose after the book “Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love” was published in the U.K. and a BBC interviewer in May challenged her research on sodomy executions in Victorian Britain, according to reports. The book delves into the persecution of homosexuality during that era. […] Wolf, known for such best-sellers as “The Beauty Myth” and “Misconceptions,” has had her scholarship challenged before. In “The Beauty Myth,” she wrote that anorexia caused the...

I have taken ten of the most believed or written about misconceptions about Catholics or the Church and debunked them (with evidence wherever possible).

Team Obama’s debt-limit negotiating position is fueled by a central non sequitur, a core myth, and a spectacular oversight. Correcting these deficiencies would help Democrats and Republicans drain America’s Olympic pool of red ink without drowning the economy in tax hikes. First, the idea that the federal debt ceiling must be raised in order to lower federal indebtedness is the logical equivalent of a high-speed train derailment. Responsible consumers awash in debt do not beg credit-card companies to hike their borrowing limits. Instead, they freeze their credit thresholds and pay their debts, ideally until their finances are back in the...

10. Obama was actually giving a "pre-action" to Paul Ryan's speech on the state of the union. 9. Biden laughed when Obama said he would veto earmarks, because he thought it would be silly to ban place holders for audio books. 8. While praising the ratification of START Obama forgot to mention that piece of paper was his idea of a missile defense shield. 7. Biden was frowning the whole time because he was sad he forgot to bring his Nintendo DS. 6. Biden suggested "Win the future," which he plagiarized from a slot machine at some indian casino...

A survey published on February 5 by the prestigious Jerusalem Media and Communications Center, a Palestinian polling institute, indicates that 46.7 percent of the Palestinians believe that Hamas defeated Israel in the recent fighting in Gaza; 50.8% (compared to 39.3% last April) believe that the rocket attacks should continue, and only 20.8% believe that they are harmful to Palestinian interests. Finally, 55% are convinced that terrorist acts should continue. These figures illustrate a major aspect of the confrontation between Israel and the Palestinians and, on a wider scope, of the West and the Arab world: a tragedy of misconceptions, a...

Inside the Left's War on Reality By Christopher CookIf the fabric of reality were represented as an infinite black plain with white grid-lines (the way they depict space in black hole demonstrations), the left would be the heavy ball bearing, distorting the lines of that grid so that all nearby objects risk getting caught within its gravity well. And to carry the metaphor further, just as a black hole is theorized to have the potential to tear a hole in space if it gets heavy enough, so too the left's constant false propaganda risks the very integrity of the fabric...

FORT MEADE, Md., August 2, 2006 -- A step through the doors of the Military Entrance Processing Station here blows away the myths that the military is struggling to get enough recruits, dropping its standards to get those it does, or glossing over the fact that it’s recruiting into a wartime force. July 31 was the last day of a month in which all the services had already met their quotas for recruits. It was a relatively slow day at the station -- one of 65 dotting the country. Yet the station buzzed with activity as 102 men and women...