Related News ItemsNear-death, distortedThu, 26 Apr 2012 10:36:05 -0700 Salon has had a redesign, which is fine; it seems to do this periodically just to confuse us. I’ll adjust to that, but what I don’t like is that the first thing I saw highlighted was an article so full of woo that for a moment I thought I’d stumbled onto the Huffington Post. We are now supposed to believe that science has explained near-death experiences (NDEs), and the answer is proof of life ... Read More... Near death, rehashedTue, 01 May 2012 13:47:41 -0700 The story so far: Mario Beauregard published a very silly article in Salon, claiming that Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) were proof of life after death , a claim that he attempted to support with a couple of feeble anecdotes. I replied, pointing out that NDEs are delusions, and his anecdotal evidence was not evidence at all . Now Salon has given Beauregard another shot at it, and he has replied ... Read More... Near-death, revisitedSun, 29 Apr 2012 11:35:34 -0700 First of all, I would like to thank Salon for giving me the opportunity to respond to P.Z. Myers's article . In his article, Dr. Myers argues that near-death experience (NDE) stories are poorly documented. While this may true in some cases, it is not in many others (take, for instance, the cases investigated by prominent NDE researchers such as Bruce Greyson, Pim van Lommel, Sam Parnia, and ... Read More... Drew Gilpin Faust on the Civil War: The work of deathWed, 09 May 2012 07:00:19 -0700
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