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Bad Thinking Makes Bad Things Happen
by Jamy Ian Swiss via Bad Thinking Makes Bad Things Happen “The Secret teaches that victims are always to blame, and that anyone can have anything simply by wishing.” – Brian Dunning For a moment there...
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What’s Wrong with The Secret
The Secret teaches that victims are always to blame, and that anyone can have anything simply by wishing. By Brian Dunning via Skeptoid: Critical Analysis Podcast (2008). Read podcast transcript below...
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The Powerlessness of Positive Thinking
By Adam Alter via The New Yorker Since publishing “The Secret,” in 2006, the Australian author Rhonda Byrne has been writing self-help manifestos based on the idea that people who think positive...
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Can Thinking Change Reality
Story H/T: The Locke @ Skeptic Wars by Steven Novella via NeuroLogica Blog I love the documentary series, The Day the Universe Changed, by James Burke. It’s a follow up to his equally good, Connections...
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Battling Psychics and Ghosts: The Need for Scientific Skepticism
By Rodney Schmaltz via The Huffington Post Many years ago I was asked to give a talk to incoming university students on the nature of psychology. As a social psychology professor, I had a lot of...
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