I like this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2011/oct/11/placebos-reiki-cancer-patients-harm
Its basically a (link to a) clinical study that shows that Reiki energy healing has real benefits for cancer patients… it just doesn’t work any better than having some totally untrained person wave their hands around and go “Ohm.”  The author (of the Guardian article, not the study) concludes that, if you’re going [...]

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I never, ever, thought I’d say this, but:
This is fanfiction, about Harry Potter, and its really, really good.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality.
Yeah.  I didn’t believe it either.  But its true.  Way, _way_ better than Rowling’s version, to my mind.

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