Related News ItemsNear-death, distortedThu, 26 Apr 2012 10:36:05 -0700
Salon has had a redesign, which is fine; it seems to do this periodically just to confuse us. I’ll adjust to that, but what I don’t like is that the first thing I saw highlighted was an article so full of woo that for a moment I thought I’d stumbled onto the Huffington Post. We are now supposed to believe that science has explained near-death experiences (NDEs), and the answer is proof of life ...
Read More... Near death, rehashedTue, 01 May 2012 13:47:41 -0700
The story so far: Mario Beauregard published a very silly article in Salon, claiming that Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) were proof of life after death , a claim that he attempted to support with a couple of feeble anecdotes. I replied, pointing out that NDEs are delusions, and his anecdotal evidence was not evidence at all . Now Salon has given Beauregard another shot at it, and he has replied ...
Read More... Near-death, revisitedSun, 29 Apr 2012 11:35:34 -0700
First of all, I would like to thank Salon for giving me the opportunity to respond to P.Z. Myers's article . In his article, Dr. Myers argues that near-death experience (NDE) stories are poorly documented. While this may true in some cases, it is not in many others (take, for instance, the cases investigated by prominent NDE researchers such as Bruce Greyson, Pim van Lommel, Sam Parnia, and ...
Read More... Drew Gilpin Faust on the Civil War: The work of deathWed, 09 May 2012 07:00:19 -0700
Even though "we all have our dead," and even though we all die, we do so differently from generation to generation and from place to place.
Read More... What Was The Most Dramatic Moment On This Season Of Mob Wives?Mon, 14 May 2012 06:41:43 -0700
We watch reality shows for the “truth is stranger than fiction” element, but this season, Mob Wives basically took the cake in that department. In this one group of women, you had rivalries and enemies, returning exes, NON-returning exes, near-death experiences, and family tragedies. Not to mention the knock-down, drag-out fight that started it all. [...]
Read More... May 22, 2012Tue, 22 May 2012 15:34:09 -0700
The following are lists of books releasing the weeks of May 21st and May 28th that we think will be of interest to Bookreporter.com readers. May we ask that you forward this newsletter to friends who you think would enjoy reading it?
Read More... Former trooper remembers his own brush with deathWed, 16 May 2012 02:10:37 -0700
Former Virginia State Police Sgt. Matthew Brannock, a Ridgeway native, narrowly survived a shooting incident that could have taken his life on his 36th birthday: May 30, 2011.
Read More... 10th Anniversary of the ‘Breast’ Yard Sale in TownTue, 22 May 2012 14:10:00 -0700
“The barn is full,” says Karen Virnoche of Oregon, IL, founder of this American Cancer Society fundraising event held every summer for the past ten years, and cancer survivor extraordinaire.
Read More... Death postponed: I thought I was going to be killed — 'Bigga' FordSun, 06 May 2012 01:38:02 -0700
IT could have been billed as 'the showdown at the dump'.
Read More... Jim Sleeper: Yale Has Gone to Singapore, But Can It Come Back?Fri, 04 May 2012 06:51:22 -0700
Yale University sustained such a college for more than 300 years and, through it, the American republic, and for much of the time the republic led the world, but now Yale's captains have bound it contractually to an authoritarian corporate city state.
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