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"There isn't an alcoholic around who doesn't wish he could drink moderately," says Dr. Ernest Noble, director of UCLA's Alcohol Research Center. He adds that similar attempts at moderation, such as Controlled Drinking, Drink Watchers and Rational Recovery, have a long history of failure. Dr. Nicholas Pace...
Not one to suffer fools gladly, Park takes aim at what he calls "pathological science, junk science, pseudoscience and fraudulent science." He has targets aplenty. From homeopathy to therapeutic touch, from UFO myths to cold fusion, from self-deluding scientists to scientifically illiterate legislators, all are subjected to his penetrating...
Most of all, they'll try to avoid publicly criticizing each other. "All of us in this room," Venter told TIME last Thursday, "have found a way to put the human emotions behind us. There are things we have all said that, given a rational condition, we wish we hadn...
"We are part of a highly rational and highly scientific field," he says.
Some think that inflicting capital punishment is a primitive, irrational transaction. I disagree. Capital punishment seems to me a rational response to certain crimes, and one that is sanctioned by long-standing human custom. It is rational to remove a known killer permanently from society. It is rational to kill...