Artigo Revisado por pares

Faith Healers and Physicians — Teaching Pseudoscience by Mandate

2005; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 353; Issue: 14 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejmp058244

ISSN

1533-4406

Autores

Robert S. Schwartz,

Tópico(s)

African cultural and philosophical studies

Resumo

In the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, Frank Morgan plays five roles. In one of them, he is a flimflam hawker of trivia traveling across the plains of Kansas in a horse-drawn wagon. In another, he is the wizard who, concealed by a curtain, manipulates a machine that controls all of Oz. Now, more than 65 years later, another pitchman is rolling across Kansas, but unlike Morgan's bumbling peddler of trinkets and dreams, the new one has no interest in such trifles. It is an articulate and sophisticated anti-evolution movement called “intelligent design.” At its core is the . . .

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