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Wheat Belly | Hunt.Gather.Love.
Very skeptical review of "Wheat Belly"
diet  paleo  food  vegan  vegetarian  wheat  science  reason  books 
october 2011 by edj
Less Wrong: Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease
"is obesity a real disease?" is the wrong question... in its place the author puts forward a basically utilitarian argument for how to judge and treat marginal diseases.
science  ethics  reason  morality  sociology  obesity  depression  disease 
may 2010 by edj
Evaluating Heterodox Theories
Full text of research paper explaining why proponents of heterodox theories carry the burden of responsibility to prove their own theories. The example used is the Maharishi effect research done in Israel.
transcendental_meditation  reason  meditation  tm 
november 2008 by edj

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