Scienceonreligion.org Website Review

radical Islamic terrorists use the Western media to manipulate attitudes and to create and escalate conflict tragic causalities, with the help of the Western media, the actions of a few men have affected millions. The Western media’s framing of terrorist events as “as*aults on freedom,” coupled with erroneous conceptions of Islam and Muslims, has given terrorists a ready-made platform to communicate their messages to the world. Is the media, then, the oxygen fueling global conflict, creating an “us” vs. “them” narrative, escalating hostilities, thereby playing right into the goals of terrorists? their priest and fellow congregants. Others fast and chant for days on end to fulfill their guru's program of enlightenment. At the extreme edge of the ritual spectrum, aspirants turn to self-flagellation, scarification, and even ultra-violent Philippine reenactments a fancy term to describe the way value changes over time – $70 is clearly more than $50, but when that $70 is four months away, it's not worth as much.  People vary pretty widely in their discounting rates, and there's lots of research sorting through the various factors that and vice versa. This antagonism has bled into the cognitive science of religion. There’s a growing thinking. Can people’s performance on an an*lytical thinking test predict if they’re creationists or if they accept evolution? of the New Age spiel. It generally involves “energy work,” “intuition,” and somewhere along the way, “quantum” something gets dropped into the mix—as in “quantum healing,” “quantum intention,” or “quantum intuitive energy work.” What does that even mean? And who buys this stuff? A recent study led by Gordon Pennycook seeks to answer the latter question, regardless of whether New Age clichés mean anything at all. According to the authors, the propensity to interpret garbled phrases as profound is a sign of “Bullsh*t Receptivity,” and it's correlated with low intelligence and high gullibility.