"The ability to use reason, weigh evidence and make rational decisions is an essential skill, writes Skeptic Simon Perry.
Strongly held beliefs unsupported by evidence can cause significant damage to the deluded individual and those who surround them.
An individual approaching a homeopath for a cold remedy will probably do no more self harm than to waste their money and feed their own delusion, but the homeopath who convinces their client that they're safe to go to West Africa with nothing more than a sugar pill for malaria protection may well kill them.
But mumbo-jumbo becomes most dangerous when it is believed by those with power."
-- This Is Leicestershire.co.uk
That second sentence is a point this blog has, repeatedly, tried to make for some time [underlined emphasis, above,
TMR's]. If you don't believe it's a true statement, don't forget I base my claim on
personal experience.
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