superstition

But why is food such a focus of superstition among skeptics?

These rules, just like many others, are rooted in nothing more than tradition and superstition.

"Being outside the realm of human control and understanding" is not what superstition means.

It is one thing just to see the fact that a whole people are caught in superstition, but quite another to see that fact and condemn it.

A currency based in faith is not a dangerous thing - basing currency on gold is mostly a form of superstition.

I'm very scientifically bent, but yeah, nutrition science seems to amount to roughly superstition at this point.

Another superstition trampled under the relentless feet of reason.

This world , India particularly, needs more people fighting religious superstition.

The "nothing to hide -> nothing to fear" sophistry is about shifting the basis of judgement from "innocent until proven guilty" to "guilty until proven innocent," replacing reason with superstition.

In signing the agreement, web companies are pledging to identify and prevent the transmission of information that Chinese authorities deem objectionable, including information that breaks laws or spreads superstition or obscenity, or that may jeopardize state security and disrupt social stability.

Going 'meta' for a moment, this is a tragedy of huge proportions, the question I have been considering is whether or not it is even possible to avoid?Updates from MSF which highlight the level of mistrust and superstition amongst the infected population, where people hide their sick relatives from isolation wards and take them back to their village.