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Descartes Thought The Pineal Gland Was "The Seat Of The Soul" – And Some People Still DoRene Descartes

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Descartes Thought The Pineal Gland Was "The Seat Of The Soul" – And Some People Still DoRene Descartes
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Descartes Thought The Pineal Gland Was "The Seat Of The Soul" – And Some People Still Do

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What Is Cryptozoology? We Explore The History And Mystery Of This Controversial FieldAn old case file background with stickers of mothman, the loch ness monster and big foot. In the top right is a stamp saying "unsolved" and bottom left is a magnifying glass.

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What Is Cryptozoology? We Explore The History And Mystery Of This Controversial FieldAn old case file background with stickers of mothman, the loch ness monster and big foot. In the top right is a stamp saying "unsolved" and bottom left is a magnifying glass.
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What Is Cryptozoology? We Explore The History And Mystery Of This Controversial Field

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In 1927, A Physicist Conducted A Mass Psychic Experiment Involving 25,000 PeopleAn old radio and microphone.

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In 1927, A Physicist Conducted A Mass Psychic Experiment Involving 25,000 PeopleAn old radio and microphone.
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In 1927, A Physicist Conducted A Mass Psychic Experiment Involving 25,000 People

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Expanding Earth: The Strange (Pre-Tectonics) Hypothesis That The Earth Is Expanding Like A BalloonGlobes of Earth of different sizes.

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Expanding Earth: The Strange (Pre-Tectonics) Hypothesis That The Earth Is Expanding Like A BalloonGlobes of Earth of different sizes.
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Expanding Earth: The Strange (Pre-Tectonics) Hypothesis That The Earth Is Expanding Like A Balloon

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Myth Vs. Medicine: The Truth About Nature’s Healing PowerA photo shows two people walking away from the camera along a woodland path. The forest is dense and green, with lush ferns and undergrowth either side of the path. The two people are a man wearing a red rain coat and carrying a brown rucksack, and a woman behind him wearing a blue raincoat. She has her hood up.

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Myth Vs. Medicine: The Truth About Nature’s Healing PowerA photo shows two people walking away from the camera along a woodland path. The forest is dense and green, with lush ferns and undergrowth either side of the path. The two people are a man wearing a red rain coat and carrying a brown rucksack, and a woman behind him wearing a blue raincoat. She has her hood up.
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Myth Vs. Medicine: The Truth About Nature’s Healing Power

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Frozen In Time And In Two Parts: Ted Williams And The Ugly Truth Of Cryonicsa brain that is frozen in a block of ice. It is sitting on a wooden table in a dark room.

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Frozen In Time And In Two Parts: Ted Williams And The Ugly Truth Of Cryonicsa brain that is frozen in a block of ice. It is sitting on a wooden table in a dark room.
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Frozen In Time And In Two Parts: Ted Williams And The Ugly Truth Of Cryonics

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Can You Really "Feel" When You're Being Watched?Black and white photo of man looking over his shoulder, worried, at a woman blurred in the background

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Can You Really "Feel" When You're Being Watched?Black and white photo of man looking over his shoulder, worried, at a woman blurred in the background
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Can You Really "Feel" When You're Being Watched?

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How We Know Homeopathy Isn't Real Sciencecollage showing a portrait of Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, with some homeopathic remedies in bottles, the year 1796, some mortars and pestles with colored powders, a flask of green liquid, and wooden scoop with little white homeopathic globules

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How We Know Homeopathy Isn't Real Sciencecollage showing a portrait of Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, with some homeopathic remedies in bottles, the year 1796, some mortars and pestles with colored powders, a flask of green liquid, and wooden scoop with little white homeopathic globules
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How We Know Homeopathy Isn't Real Science

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Astrologists Are Overly Confident And Terrible At Astrology, Study FindsZodiac signs in an astrology circle.

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Astrologists Are Overly Confident And Terrible At Astrology, Study FindsZodiac signs in an astrology circle.
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Astrologists Are Overly Confident And Terrible At Astrology, Study Finds

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Pseudoscience Vs Anti-Science: How To Tell The Difference And Fight BothIllustration of a black and white hand holding a magnifying glass over a stack of papers, highlighting the word FAKE, on a blue white-flecked background

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Pseudoscience Vs Anti-Science: How To Tell The Difference And Fight BothIllustration of a black and white hand holding a magnifying glass over a stack of papers, highlighting the word FAKE, on a blue white-flecked background
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Pseudoscience Vs Anti-Science: How To Tell The Difference And Fight Both

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Your Star Sign Has No Impact On Your Well-Being, Debunking Yet Another Astrology ClaimAstrological signs on ancient clock Torre dell'Orologio, Venice, Italy. Medieval Zodiac wheel and constellations. Golden symbols on star circle. Concept of astrology, horoscope and time.

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Your Star Sign Has No Impact On Your Well-Being, Debunking Yet Another Astrology ClaimAstrological signs on ancient clock Torre dell'Orologio, Venice, Italy. Medieval Zodiac wheel and constellations. Golden symbols on star circle. Concept of astrology, horoscope and time.
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Your Star Sign Has No Impact On Your Well-Being, Debunking Yet Another Astrology Claim

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Did Indiana Once Try To Make A Law That Said Pi Was Rational?Pi symbol in a circle on a grey background, a blue pencil in the foreground

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Did Indiana Once Try To Make A Law That Said Pi Was Rational?Pi symbol in a circle on a grey background, a blue pencil in the foreground
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Did Indiana Once Try To Make A Law That Said Pi Was Rational?

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How A Man Overdosed On Homeopathic Medicine After Manufacturer ErrorHomeopathic medicine.

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How A Man Overdosed On Homeopathic Medicine After Manufacturer ErrorHomeopathic medicine.
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How A Man Overdosed On Homeopathic Medicine After Manufacturer Error

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Pseudoscience Vs Science: How To Spot The Differencemagnifying glass over a crystal

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Pseudoscience Vs Science: How To Spot The Differencemagnifying glass over a crystal
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Pseudoscience Vs Science: How To Spot The Difference

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Ketsueki-gata: Why Some Believe Personality Can Be Predicted From Blood TypeFour wooden blocks sit on a desk with a person wearing a white coat and a stethoscope sits behind them. The blocks have blood-drop symbols on them and each is lettered "A", "B", AB" and "O", respectively. The person in the white coat is pointing at the "AB" blood.

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Ketsueki-gata: Why Some Believe Personality Can Be Predicted From Blood TypeFour wooden blocks sit on a desk with a person wearing a white coat and a stethoscope sits behind them. The blocks have blood-drop symbols on them and each is lettered "A", "B", AB" and "O", respectively. The person in the white coat is pointing at the "AB" blood.
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Ketsueki-gata: Why Some Believe Personality Can Be Predicted From Blood Type

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