On another blog, FideCogitActio, some theists of a "classical" stripe (that's to say, like Brian Davies, Edward Feser) are criticisng the Evil God Challenge (or I suppose, trying to show how it can be met, or sidestepped). The main post includes this: In book I, chapter 39 , Aquinas argues that “there cannot be evil in God” (in Deo non potest esse malum). Atheists like Law must face the fact that, if the words are to retain any sense, “God” simply cannot be “evil”. As my comments in the thread at Feser’s blog aimed to show, despite how much he mocks “the privation theory of evil,” Law himself cannot escape its logic: his entire argument requires that the world ought to appear less evil if it is to be taken as evidence of a good God. Even though he spurns the idea that evil is a privation of good, his account of an evil world is parasitic on a good ideal; this is no surprise, though, since all evil is parasitic on good ( SCG I, 11 ). Based on the conclusions of se...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/technology/book-offers-new-details-of-jobs-cancer-fight.html?_r=2&hp
(I've contacted a few podcasters who specialise in this sort of stuff with the link to here.)
Nadia Sawalha always endorses homeopathy:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1282474/EastEnders-actress-Nadia-Sawalhas-eczema-drove-desperate-measures--decided-aside-prejudices-try-homeopathy.html
Gwyneth Paltrow is reliably into nonsense like cupping too:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2011/09/08/contagion_vs_goop_did_gwyneth_paltrow_sell_out_alternative_medic.html
Jodie Kidd fronted an extraordinary BBC 3 woo-fest covering all manner of alternative modalities:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qmvyr
Marsh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tredinnick_(politician)#Support_for_complementary_and_alternative_medicine
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/11/for_shame_oprah_winfrey_shills_for_faith.php
http://drerika.typepad.com/notepad/2006/10/letter_to_suzan.html
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/suzanne-somers-knockout-spreading-dangerous-misinformation-about-cancer-part-1/
http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2011/08/a-letter-to-david-bellamy.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_charles#Alternative_medicine
Unfortunately so is Caroline Lucas, our only Green MP (I like her otherwise): "She is a supporter of homeopathy, having signed an early day motion in support of its continued funding on the National Health Service sponsored by Conservative MP David Tredinnick."
Cruise on Scientology.
Also, Tom Cruise comes out against psychiatry:
Cruise on the history of psychiatry.
It is some kind of example of what goes wrong when you buy in to woo.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/vaccination-a-conversatio_b_358578.html
Source: http://paranormal.about.com/cs/trueghoststories/a/aa022304_3.htm
Not surprising given this 2005 Gallup poll: http://www.gallup.com/poll/17275/onethird-americans-believe-dearly-may-departed.aspx
He's also interested in ghosts: http://randalrauser.com/2011/07/on-my-preliminary-research-into-ghosts/
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/03/when_faith_healing_isnt_enough_woo_for_d.php
http://www.powerbalance.com/faqs currently makes the claim that: The thin polyester film hologram is programmed through a proprietary process, which is designed to mimic Eastern philosophies that have been around for hundreds of years. and has a list of 32 professional athletes who are still prepared to endorse it. The most famous one I could recognise is F1 driver Rubens Barrichello.
"Paranormal expert set to become Tory MEP" (You might need to log in to see this or search via Google) - the guy in question apparently taught "Master’s Degree in Metaphysics, Focus in Paranormal Studies”.
It states "In addition to Mr Matthews’ course, students were obliged to study “psychic protection” and could take courses in “ghost hunting” and “advanced ghost hunting”.
OK the guy is rather obscure outside the fantasy world of EU politics but even so..
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=6596366&page=1
Why, exactly, do we care about what famous people say? Isn't it more important what they *are* saying rather than that they *are* saying something? (It's kind of a shame that Stephen Fry is so famous ... :)