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Susan might be interested to know that there was an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine last year debunking the Placebo Effect. It was reported widely in the news media, including the 23 May 2001 edition of the New York Times. The real moral of this story is not the power of [...]

If you’re a hip cosmologist you believe that every possible universe exists, but then if you were really hip, wouldn’t you have realised that it’s all been said by Parmenides well over 2000 years before?  “Whatever can be spoken or thought of necessarily is, since it is possible for it to be, but it is not possible [...]