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...later. And I must admit that I was never cured of anything (though I knew people who were) and that I never even fell over under the weight of Spirit (though my parents did, even before they believed). So there are loose threads in this miraculous tapestry for a skeptic to tug at, if she chose...
...dispel early fears that the social benefit from higher wages would be wiped out by job cutbacks among businesses subject to the living-wage laws. Last month a study of 36 cities with living-wage laws--conducted by David Neumark, a Michigan State University economics professor and an early skeptic of such laws--found that the slight job losses caused by the higher wages are more than offset by the decrease in poverty among working families. "The impact on businesses and governments is very small," says Robert Pollin, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. "If there...
...Though skepticism may be an essential part of academic life, we err in asserting that it reigns sophisticated where the less suspicious nature stands simplistic. In “The Will to Believe” William James, himself no rube, wrote, “Moral skepticism can no more be refuted or proved by logic than intellectual skepticism can…The skeptic with his whole nature adopts the doubting attitude; but which of us is the wiser. Omniscience only knows.” While it is our prerogative to believe in nothing before we believe in something that could...
...only classic but also authentic. In a recent roundtable interview, Jim Morris himself spoke to the film’s accuracy. “By and large, the movie’s dead on. It’s my life, so I guess I’m the biggest skeptic, [and] I think it’s fantastic. I called my mom after [seeing the final cut] and told her, you’re gonna cry through this whole movie...
...SKEPTICAL EYE Longtime TIME Science writer (and professional skeptic) Leon Jaroff inaugurates "The Skeptical Eye," a weekly look at science and pseudoscience. This week Jaroff examines the case of a researcher who has received nearly half a million dollars to study whether praying for aids and cancer patients can help heal them. At time.com/columnist/jaroff...