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Can aspartame cause headaches in some people? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Intelligent Design is an attempt to disguise religion as science." (view dispute report)

Does intelligent design make falsifiable claims? (view dispute report)

Do scientific trials demonstrate the effectiveness of homeopathic medicine? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Homeopathic medecines are so diluted that they frequently contain none of the original molecules." (view dispute report)

Did Jonathan Swift in "Gulliver's Travels" accurately predict the distances and orbital periods of Mars's moons long before they were discovered? (view dispute report)

Does homeopathic medicine work? (view dispute report)

Do vaccines cause autism? (view dispute report)

Does aspartame contribute to diabetes? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Creationism, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design are scientific." (view dispute report)

True or False? "The eye is irreducibly complex." (view dispute report)

Is there a link between thimerosal and autism? (view dispute report)

Does aspartame cause brain tumors? (view dispute report)

Is aspartame safe for your health? (view dispute report)

Can homeopathic medicine help cure malaria? (view dispute report)

Can aspartame cause multiple sclerosis? (view dispute report)

Does autism have a genetic basis, at least in part? (view dispute report)

When did Clovis people cross the Bering land bridge? (view dispute report)

True or False? "Saturn's moon Europa has a liquid water interior." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Saturn's moon Enceladus has a liquid water interior." (view dispute report)

True or False? "Homeopathic medicines are merely placebos." (view dispute report)

Does aspartame cause any harm to humans, aside from those with a rare genetic disease? (view dispute report)

True or False? "multiple sclerosis is triggered by certain kinds of viral infections." (view dispute report)

True or False? "There is no evidence that the flu vaccine affects complications, such as pneumonia, or transmission." (view dispute report)

Can aspartame cause headaches in some people?

Yes

NeuroLogica Blog » Aspartame Safety and Internet Urban Legends

One noted exception is that aspartame does seem to cause headaches in some people.

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True or False? "Intelligent Design is an attempt to disguise religion as science."

True

NeuroLogica Blog » Is Intelligent Design Falsifiable?

ID proponents, of course, reject this argument because the entire purpose of ID is to masquerade creationism as a scientific theory.

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Does intelligent design make falsifiable claims?

No

NeuroLogica Blog » Is Intelligent Design Falsifiable?

While I agree that the answer is mostly no, the more precise answer is that it depends – it depends on exactly how ID is being formulated and practiced.

I contend that in practice, ID proponents have rendered ID unfalsifiable while playing with semantics in order to pretend that it can be falsified.

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Do scientific trials demonstrate the effectiveness of homeopathic medicine?

No

NeuroLogica Blog » Homeopathy for Malaria

Homeopathy is a prescientific philosophy-based system of treatment whose central ideas have been long discredited.

What’s more, there has been extensive clinical studies of homeopathy, most of it useless, but the well-controlled trials show that homeopathy does not work – for anything.

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True or False? "Homeopathic medecines are so diluted that they frequently contain none of the original molecules."

True

NeuroLogica Blog » Homeopathy for Malaria

Preparations are diluted to the point that there is essentially no active ingredients left behind, and so they are literally nothing but sugar pills or placebos.

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Did Jonathan Swift in "Gulliver's Travels" accurately predict the distances and orbital periods of Mars's moons long before they were discovered?

No, Swift's numbers for the orbital distances and periods were not correct.

NeuroLogica Blog Â» Jonathan Swift Predicted the Moons of Mars

Phobos and Deimos have orbits which are about 1.4 and 3.5 diameters from Mars’ center respectively.

The Laputians gave figures of 3 and 5. The periods of Phobos and Deimos are 7.7 and 30.3 hours, respectively, while the Laputians reported 10 and 21.5.

These figures are correct to within an order of magnitude, which is another way of saying that they are wrong.

NeuroLogica Blog » Jonathan Swift Predicted the Moons of Mars

These figures are correct to within an order of magnitude, which is another way of saying that they are wrong.

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Does homeopathic medicine work?

No

NeuroLogica Blog » Homeopathy for Malaria

What’s more, there has been extensive clinical studies of homeopathy, most of it useless, but the well-controlled trials show that homeopathy does not work – for anything.

We can say with confidence that homeopathic products are worthless in general, and specifically for malaria prevention or treatment.

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Do vaccines cause autism?

No

NeuroLogica Blog » BMJ Slams Wakefield

The exclusion of three allegations—all giving times to onset of problems in months—helped to create the appearance of a 14 day temporal link

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Does aspartame contribute to diabetes?

No

NeuroLogica Blog » Aspartame Safety and Internet Urban Legends

There is no pattern of evidence to suggest that aspartame causes cancer, autoimmune disease, neurological disease, diabetes, or anything else its critics claim.

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True or False? "Creationism, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design are scientific."

False

NeuroLogica Blog » Is Intelligent Design Falsifiable?

But ID lacks the minimal criteria to be considered science.

There are actually several problems with ID that render it unscientific.

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True or False? "The eye is irreducibly complex."

False

NeuroLogica Blog » Eye Evolution and Irreducible Complexity

I had asserted a well-established biological fact – the eye is not irreducibly complex.

The point of these living examples is to refute the claim that the eye is irreducibly complex – that if it were any simpler it could not function, or more specifically could not confer an evolutionary advantage to the host.

It simply demonstrates that simpler eyes, all the way down to a patch of light sensitive cells, could work and provide an adaptive function – therefore the eye is not irreducibly complex.

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Is there a link between thimerosal and autism?

No

NeuroLogica Blog » Yet More Evidence Against a Link Between Thimerosal and Autism

A new study published yesterday (Monday) in the journal Pediatrics provides more evidence against any link between thimerosal (a mercury-based preservative in some vaccines) and autism or other neurological disorders.

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Does aspartame cause brain tumors?

No

NeuroLogica Blog » Aspartame Safety and Internet Urban Legends

The studies provide no evidence to support an association between aspartame and cancer in any tissue.

There is no pattern of evidence to suggest that aspartame causes cancer, autoimmune disease, neurological disease, diabetes, or anything else its critics claim.

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Is aspartame safe for your health?

Yes -- aspartame is safe.

NeuroLogica Blog » Aspartame Safety and Internet Urban Legends

The weight of existing evidence is that aspartame is safe at current levels of consumption as a nonnutritive sweetener.

Otherwise, don’t worry, aspartame is safe.

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Can homeopathic medicine help cure malaria?

No

NeuroLogica Blog » Homeopathy for Malaria

At best this one study might indicate that “further research is warranted” – even for a plausible treatment, which homeopathy is not.

We can say with confidence that homeopathic products are worthless in general, and specifically for malaria prevention or treatment.

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Can aspartame cause multiple sclerosis?

No

NeuroLogica Blog » Aspartame Safety and Internet Urban Legends

There is no pattern of evidence to suggest that aspartame causes cancer, autoimmune disease, neurological disease, diabetes, or anything else its critics claim.

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Does autism have a genetic basis, at least in part?

Yes

NeuroLogica Blog » The Genetics of Autism

A new genome-wide analysis of families with autism has found significant gene associations, adding to the growing evidence for strong genetic contribution to autism.

In these entities, certain genetic variants convey an increased risk of developing a disease or disorder, but it does not directly cause them.

ASD falls into this broad category.

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When did Clovis people cross the Bering land bridge?

13,500 years ago

NeuroLogica Blog » A Pre-Clovis Find?

They likely crossed the land bridge from Asia to North America about 13,500 years ago, and then worked their way down to South America.

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True or False? "Saturn's moon Europa has a liquid water interior."

True

NeuroLogica Blog » Life in Enceladus

Europa is covered with ice, and we know it gets hotter toward its core, so it stands to reason that at some depth the ice is liquid water – and where there is liquid water there is at least the potential for life.

So now we have at least two candidates in our own solar system for liquid water that may contain life – Europa and Enceladus.

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True or False? "Saturn's moon Enceladus has a liquid water interior."

True

NeuroLogica Blog » Life in Enceladus

Perhaps, then Enceladus is like Europa with a liquid water interior.

Therefore, astronomers say, Enceladus has the three ingredients we know are necessary for life – liquid water, organic compounds, and an energy source.

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True or False? "Homeopathic medicines are merely placebos."

True

NeuroLogica Blog » Homeopathy for Malaria

Preparations are diluted to the point that there is essentially no active ingredients left behind, and so they are literally nothing but sugar pills or placebos.

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Does aspartame cause any harm to humans, aside from those with a rare genetic disease?

No -- aspartame causes no harm.

NeuroLogica Blog » Aspartame Safety and Internet Urban Legends

There is no pattern of evidence to suggest that aspartame causes cancer, autoimmune disease, neurological disease, diabetes, or anything else its critics claim.

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True or False? "multiple sclerosis is triggered by certain kinds of viral infections."

True

NeuroLogica Blog » The Genetics of Autism

Some diseases, like multiple sclerosis, are now thought to be triggered, for example, by certain kinds of viral infections.

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True or False? "There is no evidence that the flu vaccine affects complications, such as pneumonia, or transmission."

True

NeuroLogica Blog » Fear Mongering the Flu Vaccine

There is no evidence that they affect complications, such as pneumonia, or transmission.

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Can aspartame cause headaches in some people?

Yes

True or False? "Intelligent Design is an attempt to disguise religion as science."

True

Does intelligent design make falsifiable claims?

No

Do scientific trials demonstrate the effectiveness of homeopathic medicine?

No

True or False? "Homeopathic medecines are so diluted that they frequently contain none of the original molecules."

True

Did Jonathan Swift in "Gulliver's Travels" accurately predict the distances and orbital periods of Mars's moons long before they were discovered?

No, Swift's numbers for the orbital distances and periods were not correct.

Does homeopathic medicine work?

No

Do vaccines cause autism?

No

Does aspartame contribute to diabetes?

No

True or False? "Creationism, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design are scientific."

False

True or False? "The eye is irreducibly complex."

False

Is there a link between thimerosal and autism?

No

Does aspartame cause brain tumors?

No

Is aspartame safe for your health?

Yes -- aspartame is safe.

Can homeopathic medicine help cure malaria?

No

Can aspartame cause multiple sclerosis?

No

Does autism have a genetic basis, at least in part?

Yes

When did Clovis people cross the Bering land bridge?

13,500 years ago

True or False? "Saturn's moon Europa has a liquid water interior."

True

True or False? "Saturn's moon Enceladus has a liquid water interior."

True

True or False? "Homeopathic medicines are merely placebos."

True

Does aspartame cause any harm to humans, aside from those with a rare genetic disease?

No -- aspartame causes no harm.

True or False? "multiple sclerosis is triggered by certain kinds of viral infections."

True

True or False? "There is no evidence that the flu vaccine affects complications, such as pneumonia, or transmission."

True