The Edge of Science

[mythlore]

When Plato completely trashed the concept of religion 25 hundred years ago, it was already well known to be ancient idiocy. In centuries that followed, many great men and women insulted religion and never once, in all that time, have they been proven wrong

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[thechaim42]

Vitamin C is essential fuel for the body, and particularly the human immune system. It's in boosting the immune system that it helps fight the common cold, as well as many other viruses that the body might contract.

[axo]

Unfortunately, it hasn't been shown to help fight colds for the average person. If you have a stressed immune system, it may help, but it can't boost your endogenous resistance to a virus.

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/DSH/colds.html

http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/vitamin-c3.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/jul/18/medicineandhealth.sciencenews

[axo]

Your article is from the Saturday Evening Post, from some of Dr. Linus Pauling's now discredited claims about vitamins. He was great when it came to protein structure, not so on the ball about vitamins.

[mythlore]

What he said. The problem with the information age is... well... information. I can't wait for the next age. The age of vetting!

[juliette666]

I don't know if you like live theatre, but the current show at the Taper, The School of Night, is all about Christopher Marlowe, and much of the plot revolves around his atheism and free-thinking and how that made him a target.

My boyfriend Jon is in it, although since his character is an Italian commedia dell'arte actor he is most likely Catholic. ;)

[mythlore]

It's possible to not like live theater?

One of my father's friends wrote a book on the dubious theory that Marlowe was Shakespear. Quite the character, that Marlowe.