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According to the National Library of Medicine , Anti-vaccination and pro-CAM attitudes both reflect magical beliefs about health , but, stil...

“ Years ago it occurred to me that hope is a negative emotion ....Hope can easily involve a kind of magical thinking,...This has become pa...

“Yoga continues to cast its spell on both practitioners and those toying with falling in line,...” The only way cultism makes sense to...

The best dissection of the moon landing "hoax" ever created,…

These are three pictures of the author. Having had a bit of experience with the NewAge offshoots, pro and con, that are covered in ...

The psychologist Melvin Lerner developed just world theory in the 1960s, arguing that we’re motivated to believe that the world is a fa...

Dark alleys leading down dark alleys. Turn back now: "A person who shits on the kitchen floor because it gives them erotic ple...

When conservatives started acting like liberals - best exemplified by electing the NewAge Romney - I knew I'd lost who I was co...

I wish I had access to whatever drugs Ann Althouse took in her youth - they had to be mind-blowing:   Maybe Boehner is the woman ...

 I'm always a *little* proud when I see these kinds of videos, almost like I had a hand in them - which I did - by letting those ...

Magical thinking. It all sounds like so much magical thinking: Evil is banal yet alien to our everyday sensibilities; the up-close...

  Yes, Obama came off like an idiot talking about Detroit, but while Motor City 's politics and infrastructure suck, I want to ...

"Taking a set of tragic shocking circumstances, and maintaining that it was orchestrated for a more sinister purpose, is difficult ...