Links With Your Coffee - Tuesday
- Americans choose God over doctors for saving lives
More than half of randomly surveyed adults - 57% - said God's intervention could save a family member even if physicians declared treatment would be futile. And nearly three-quarters said patients have a right to demand such treatment.
- TPM CAFE BOOK CLUB DISCUSSION ON JAMES GALBRAITH'S THE PREDATOR STATE
- Think Progress » McCain Jokes About His Definition Of The Rich: ‘How About $5 Million?’
- See Jane Compute : Reading is fundamental
I have had two experiences in quick succession that have made me seriously wonder what kind of reading education kids these days are getting.
(Jeez, did I just go over into old geezer territory? I think that's the first time I've used the phrase "kids these days" in a blog post. Next I'll be telling people to get off my lawn...)
- The Satirical Political Report - An Offbeat Look at the Hot-Button Issues of the Day » McCain Explains to Rick Warren HIS ‘Purpose-Driven Life’
- Bad Science » My Placebo programme on BBC Radio 4
I’ve been so busy I completely failed to spot that this show went out earlier this evening. It’s a smashing programme I made with Matt Silver from the BBC Radio 4 Science Unit on the placebo effect.
(tip to pedantsareus)We charge through some of the most fun experiments in the field, and in part two we get all philosophical about what it means for mankind.
I’m an enormous fan of BBC Radio 4 science, and I’ve spent a fair amount of time thinking about why they’re so great. As well as resisting the drive to dumb down, there’s also one very important structural factor: around 70-80% of a radio science documentary - by necessity, for auditory colour - is made up of words spoken by the people who have done the science themselves. - Adult Christianity TM |(tip to pedantsareus)
Comments
The God over Doctors story is sensationalized.
It states 'if the doctors say you are going to die, is it still possible for God to intervene?'
Having literally LIVED (slept, showered, eaten) in a hospital for 10 weeks this year, supporting my new daughter, I won't say people don't talk God, but not a single person I met would prefer God solve thier issue over doctors, and this place is heavily Catholic.
So yeah, story fails the sniff test.
People do NOT prefer God over Doctors, they just hold onto Hope, which has an element of paranormal to it, and IMHO is healthy.
i don't know how healthy it is, but i found the simple truth of this statement moving. it undercuts a lot of the bullshit from both sides of the "atheist/believer" equation, which imho is a good thing. seems to me that the hope that "the doctors are wrong" is an ancient one, and far from unjustified. as science and medicine hone their game, here at the beginning of the 21st century, that hope is getting whittled down (thankfully) but it certainly hasn't disappeared, and i'm not (in a kantean, "categorical imperitive" sense) ready to take it away from "the people".
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