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[escepticos] RV: Skeptical Inquirer Electronic Digest, April 30, 2000
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Asunto: Skeptical Inquirer Electronic Digest, April 30, 2000
> Skeptical Inquirer Electronic Digest, April 30, 2000
>
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> In this week's SI DIGEST:
> -NEWSWEEK: Special Feature and Poll on Miracles
> -APS "What's New": Nuclear Phobia
> -NY TIMES: Profile of Robert Park, Claim Buster
>
> --NEWSWEEK: SPECIAL FEATURE AND POLL ON MIRACLES
>
> The May 1, 2000 edition of Newsweek features several articles on miracles
> including:
>
> What Miracles Mean (related audio)
> Why I Don't Believe in Miracles by Philip Hefner
> Newsweek Poll: Most Americans Believe in Miracles
> The Miracle Detective
> To read the articles, go to
> http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/us/so/a18981-2000apr23.htm
>
> Newsweek Poll: Most Americans Believe in Miracles
>
>
> [An overwhelming majority of Americans believe that God performs miracles
> and nearly half say they have personally seen or experienced one,
according
> to a new Newsweek poll. Eighty-four percent of Americans said that God
> performs miracles. Seventy-nine percent say they believe that the
miracles
> described in the Bible actually took place, according to the Newsweek
poll.
> Sixty-three percent say they know someone who claims to have experienced
a
> miracle, and 48 percent believe they have experienced or witnessed one.
It
> is overwhelmingly Christians (90%) who believe in miracles, compared to
46
> percent of non-Christians. Faith in miracles among Evangelical
Protestants
> is 98 percent. And 87 percent of those polled said that miracles can
happen
> to people of religious faiths different than their own. About two-thirds
of
> Americans (67%) say they have prayed for a miracle. Strong majorities of
>
> Americans believe God or the saints cure or heal sick people who have
been
> given no chance of survival by medical doctors (77%). People who face
death
> in accidents or natural disasters can be saved by a miracle, say 72
percent
> of those polled. The poll data appears as part of a new Newsweek story on
> miracles, available on newsstands Monday and online on Newsweek.com on
> Sunday. Religion Editor Kenneth L. Woodward provides accounts of
modern-day
> miracles and profiles the role of miracles in each of the world's leading
> religions. Woodward's story is adapted from his new book, "The Book of
> Miracles" (Simon & Schuster, 432 pages)....]
>
> --APS "WHAT'S NEW": NUCLEAR PHOBIA
>
> From the weekly "What's New," a weekly e-mail bulletin written by
American
> Physical Society Director and CSICOP Fellow Robert Park.
> For more information, go to http://www.aps.org/WN/
>
> April 28, 2000
>
> [...3. NUCLEAR PHOBIA I: NO EXCESS CANCERS FROM THREE MILE ISLAND.
> A 13-year study of people living within five miles of the Three
> Mile Island nuclear plant found no increase in cancer deaths due
> to the 1979 accident. You will not be surprised to learn that
> the University of Pittsburgh researchers called for continued
> monitoring of the resident's health, while nuclear activists
> insisted the study must be flawed and called for expanding it to
> ten miles from the plant. There have been no calls for similar
> studies around coal-fired power plants, which deposit vastly
> greater amounts of radioactivity as well as other carcinogens.
> 4. NUCLEAR PHOBIA II: CHILDREN KEPT AWAY FROM HALL OF SCIENCE.
> The Alameda County Board of Education called for a moratorium on
> field trips to the Lawrence Hall of Science where hundreds of
> children are shown the wonders of science each day. The Board
> acted at the urging of the Berkeley-based Committee to Minimize
> Toxic Waste which claims the area is contaminated by tritium from
> the nearby National Tritium Labeling Facility. Astounded LBL
> and EPA officials explained to the Board that levels comply with
> federal guidelines, but the Board was unmoved....]
>
> --NY TIMES: PROFILE OF ROBERT PARK, CLAIM BUSTER
>
> April 29, 2000
>
> For the full text of the article, go to:
> http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/042900robert-park.html
>
> A Claim-Buster by Calling
>
>
> By Patricia Cohen
> [...For while many professional physicists recognize him for his
technical
> research on the structure of crystal surfaces, to the somewhat wider
> audience that includes readers of his weekly newsletter and zany
inventors
> of all types, Mr. Park, 69, is known as a gadfly, an indefatigable
debunker
> of alien abductions, miraculous cures, infinite energy sources and
wasteful
> spending.
> In congressional testimony, he has railed against Star Wars defense
> strategies, government secrecy and research into alternative medicine; he
> has ridiculed the supposed dangers of silicon breast implants and
electric
> power lines. He says the powdered orange drink Tang was not developed for
> the space program....]
>
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