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Rapid Prompting Method

Who let the dogmas out?

Alive! Alternative/Complementary Medicine Autism Confirmation bias Conservatism Facilitated Communication Naive optimism Pseudoscience Psychology Rapid Prompting Method Religion January 5, 2016 by Brian Hughes 4 comments

Have you ever noticed how irrationalities (a) tend to cluster, (b) tend to offer hope to the desperate, and (c) tend to appeal to folks with strongly held dogmatic beliefs? No? Well here’s an interesting example of the genre: Get a load of Alive!, a FREE Catholic newspaper produced in […]

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