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A healer who earns millions, required his 35 employees to add his last name to theirs because of the positive energies, and a contestant was eliminated from a reality show because of negative energies. A proposal to the Ministries of Education and Health: Educate the public not to go to alternative healers

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I may be giving up my livelihood in advance, but if there's one thing I wouldn't do, it's to write articles that promote something I don't believe in - that is, mysticism. I'm trying to remember if there were such cases, but the most I can remember is the requests to write articles that represent the science for the readers of those magazines.

If the world were fair, surely the truth would be much more in demand than the lies of the mystics (it doesn't matter if it is mysticism for reasons of religion or other beliefs or pseudo-scientific mysticism). After all, a very clear conclusion is that everyone who claims predictive and/or healing powers that do not rely on conventional medicine, their whole intention is to hold the eyes of people who have lost hope and are ready to spend huge sums of money in order to gain another month or two of life.

Now, 35 people who believe in superstitions should also lose their jobs. This morning it was written in the latest news that an alternative healer named Oren Zarif required his employees to add his last name to their last name (due to the positive energies in that name, according to him). The alternative healer He presented the addition of the name as a condition for continued work for him and threatened to fire employees who did not meet the demand.

I have no idea what positive energies are and what the chemical formula is that distinguishes them from negative energies. If you (like many of the site's readers) are green, you will surely say that renewable energy is positive and energy from fossils such as oil and coal is negative. If we take a scale, it seems that green energy also has positive degrees, solar energy is the most positive because its production involves less damage to the environment than hydroelectric energy (diverting rivers) or biofuel (caused food prices to rise), but I don't believe that there is any healer who means this by saying positive energies or negativity…

I'll just point out that I don't know Oren Zarif more than in his TV shows, but the very idea of ​​relying on "broadcasts", "energies" etc. for healing simply does not give these people any legitimacy in the eyes of the scientific establishment in the first place. I'm amazed he has customers. Unfortunately, I'm not surprised that he has employees, because he has customers.

But if you thought it would move something for the ignorant public? In an article from July 18, 2008, that is, about a month ago, Dan Even writes inNRG Because "Oren Zarif (33) is an empire. The center of his activity is his home in Ramat Chen, from where he controls the six branches he operates across the country (Be'er Sheva, Ashdod, Jerusalem, Ramat Gan, Bnei Brak and Netanya). Over the years, he claims, he treated about XNUMX people."

Even writes that the capital accumulated by Zarif is estimated at about one hundred million dollars. His monthly advertising budget is two million shekels, and he is now also considering sponsoring television programs with an investment of five million shekels. Later in the article and in other sources it is said that the healer recommends his clients to drink alcohol and smoke cigars as a virtue for a long life. Whoever reads the articles published on the medical websites and on this website, will not be able to find even a hint of this. But that doesn't stop him from claiming healing with the power of telekinesis.

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As for his clients, the original sin is that of the media that does not expose them enough to the real scientific knowledge but, on the contrary, cooperates with alternative healers of all kinds (and it is enough to watch the morning shows). As Carl Sagan wrote in a similar context in his book "Haunted World" the media betrayed these people and led them into the arms of people who claim supernatural powers. If the world was fair, the astrologers, numerologists, etc. would simply be ignored when making a TV show.

There is no shortage of interesting people at the Technion, at the Weizmann Institute, at Tel Aviv University who will talk about the real phenomena of interest to science in the 21st century, and not about things that have long been thrown in the trash, and the cleaning workers for some reason refuse to take them to the landfill. You will be surprised, a significant part of the public would show interest in this and not in mysticism. Although science has no magic and it directs its ability to heal to hospitals and clinics, curing cancer by adjusting a drug to the patient's genetic code has a million times higher chances of success than those of faith changing the last name. It is better that they invest these billions in the development of the same drugs than in payments to false healers.

And one more word about the media, which has been vigorously devoting itself to these stereotypes for years. Last night I got to watch Channel 10 news, and a few minutes before, an episode of the reality series "The Beautiful and the Nerd" ended.

The girls on the show, chosen because they fit the stereotype of being beautiful and stupid, had to answer questions about fish, and the boys had to answer questions about massages. One of the girls did not know what plankton was and what its role was. Mila, they probably didn't prepare for the letter P (a name that includes the small creatures in the sea, which form the basis of the food chain), while one of the boys failed a question on a topic that interests the girls, and believe me, when you immediately read the question you will also understand why. The question was what was the function of the hot stones used in one of the well-known types of massage, and he gave a logical answer - to warm the body to make the massage easier. Right? Not true, it turns out that the role of the hot stones is to remove the negative energy from the body. Who is to blame for the fact that alternative and unfounded bodies of knowledge have a status that is redundant and at best identical to the truth?

If I were that nerd, I would protest, and say that it is impossible for stones to remove from the body something that is not in it, but apparently even those outstanding speakers accepted this equality (between a real body of knowledge and an invented body of knowledge) humbly.

My proposal to the Ministries of Education and Health is: You must take some steps to save this nation. First, start a campaign against walking to the Hillers. Explain to the public the risk of neglecting conventional treatment. And secondly, to the second authority and to anyone who has any determination, prevent these people from appearing on television either in "expert" programs of various kinds or in paid advertisements. What is good for smoking and alcohol is also good for encouraging the use of these for healing purposes.

Once the illegitimacy of these people is instilled in the consciousness, they will also have no money to hire the workers who are now subject to their whims.

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  1. He hasn't said the last word yet - this is a man from an unusual way. I would be surprised if he doesn't get into politics at some point

    Oren Zarif

  2. For anyone who holds the concept "Fact, it works": I too have supernatural powers and I can prove it in an independent test in the presence of anyone you want: I will toss a coin 100 times, any coin that my father Blizovsky chooses from his own pocket (because he is the most skeptical big here, so that he won't say that I brought a special coin), and I will enchant the coin so that it will fall about 50 times on one side, and about 50 times on the other side. That's how these things "work". I know another fact that is a little more real - all kinds of science and media people call all the healers and zarifs all kinds of nicknames like "crooks" "cheats" "eye grabbers" "exploiters of innocence (and stupidity) and the public" and none of them have yet been sued for their words. Why? Because then they will have to prove in court that their methods actually work, in order to substantiate the claim, and they know they will not succeed in doing so. That is why they absorb and keep silent.

  3. Energy is not distinguished by chemical formulas. Energies are formulas in physics. However, I would like to know the "Zerif formula" for measuring positive and negative energies, and of course buy a suitable, high-quality, properly calibrated measuring device at the Standards Institute.
    (I have a feeling that I will stay with the desire...)

  4. Note: There are "alternative" treatments that science is not satisfied with the fact that "it works" - investigates them from the point of view of: "why does it work" and comes to the conclusion that indeed "it works" but adds to them an explanation that may not be complete, but gives a positive direction to the elements that can explain the success . Two subjects that are in the process of such research are physiotherapy and the "Alexander method". Ra wrote in the London Daily Telegraph on August 20.8.2008, XNUMX about the "Alexander Technique" This indicates that there are meeting points between conventional medicine and alternative medicine. The condition for this meeting is the creation of a common language and willingness to listen to each other's arguments. Alternative medicine will bring facts, the scientists will listen, return to look at the antonymic literature and be able to analyze the "facts". Such cooperation may catapult medicine forward by orders of magnitude.
    Another thing, the medicinal plants can also be studied in the laboratory and understand which of the compounds found in the plants may have an effect one way or another. Well, the key word - as in all areas of life - is "destroying" Yoram

  5. Yoram, just to add a tiny bit of emphasis to you, says:
    What you describe about conventional and alternative medicine helping you is not necessarily a fact.
    Michael's quote: "An example of two things happening in close proximity does not prove that the first causes the second."

  6. To Michael
    Thank you for your response, which definitely expresses my opinion on the relationship between "scientific" medicine and "alternative" medicine. As for me, unfortunately I am experienced in receiving treatments. Scientific medicine has solved many problems I have (and inevitable side effects. This belongs to an economic field called "cost-benefit"). On the other hand, the alternative medicine did not benefit me at all and the (monetary) cost was high. Thank you Yoram

  7. Yoram:
    Thank you for your words.
    Regarding your next statement:
    "To me as a science lover who lacks the explanation and expression: "Fact. It works" is not satisfactory."
    I think you express the frustration of every scientist and science lover in such situations but the greatness of science is that it does not put itself above the facts and if something works then it will never dismiss it because it does not agree with the theory. On the contrary - what will change at the end of the process (will be invalidated or expanded) is the theory and not the facts.
    The frustration you express is the force that drives scientists to search for a theory that will explain the observed phenomena so that we don't have to say "fact - it works" and we can say "it works because so and so" but it will not be possible to discover this theory if we do not recognize that "it works" as "Fact".
    All this, of course, only in relation to things that really work 🙂

  8. They should have demanded an interview on the 13th floor…
    Maybe then it would have worked 🙂

    Sharon.

  9. It was written there that ten hillers looked up (to the 16th floor where the studio is located) and waved a tallit in an attempt to change the attitude of the interviewers towards him. Another proof of the "success" of these forces...

  10. A headline I found on Haaretz's website: Yaron London filed a complaint - his life was threatened:
    "The veteran TV presenter filed the complaint following an interview he conducted with the healer Oren Zarif, during which London called him a "crook"

    Doesn't this resemble a morbid, religious fervor, where a challenge or doubt of the tenets of faith by someone else provokes such morbid rage?
    I don't know a scientist who would have behaved in the same way. Here is the gist of the difference - for all the "believers in faith" as Dawkins puts it, those for whom science is like another religion.

    good evening.

    Sharon.

  11. Hello Michael,
    First, regarding your comments on the site, I love reading them and admire their depth and breadth.
    Second, regarding the issue of medicine:
    1. Conventional medicine is based on accurate research but also knowledge
    Its limited. There are doctors who fairly say: we don't know, the field
    This has not yet been sufficiently investigated." In my experience, I also experienced medical "mistakes".
    the conventional not because of the effectiveness of drugs but because of side effects,
    that sometimes their damage is critical.
    2. As for alternative medicine, I would divide it into two parts:
    A. Her success in healing which is the result of years of "trial and error".
    Many with an impressive correlation of those taking the drugs and those being cured.
    To me as a science lover the lack of explanation and expression: "Fact. It works" is not
    supplier.
    B. The problem with the charlatans who take a ride on the alternative approach
    and extort a great deal of money from people into misery. Because, as mentioned, there is no explanation:
    "Why it works" The charlatans don't need an explanation and therefore they can
    to mislead, and people buy it, if only because of the illusion.
    3. There is no doubt that there has been impressive progress in the development of medicine, especially in recent years
    the last ones But even here there is a caveat. See what wonders she has wrought
    the antibiotics, and see what withdrawal there is today because of the damage it can do
    cause over time.

    In conclusion: no scientific or alternative laboratory will be able to stand
    In all the challenges that the laboratory in our body presents to us.
    Yoram

  12. Mishal:
    You've already received several serious answers and it's a shame to repeat things.
    You can of course add a little:
    1. It is not at all certain that they contracted the disease
    2. All the prayers did not help
    3. An example of two things happening in close proximity does not prove that the first causes the second.
    For example, at my house every day the newspaper arrives at five o'clock and on some days they bring me milk and rolls exactly half an hour later and yet bringing the newspaper does not cause the milk to be brought.
    4. It is clear to you that I am harassing Zarif even though his name was not mentioned in any of my previous comments.
    5. The only correct thing in your response is the first sentence in which it is not customary to be proud of a misunderstanding

  13. Mishal and Roy:

    A small note - according to Judaism, a person's last name has no meaning. Surnames appeared for the first time only in the years 700 to 1000 AD. Until then, it was customary to use the father's name to distinguish the son of people with the same first name - this is how it was customary to say "Omer ben Isaac" etc. so the whole story is puzzling to me.

  14. post Scriptum.

    Stories of the type you shared with us are found in almost every culture - whether in the story of the barren woman who came to the Buddhist monk, the Muslim Qadi or the Christian evangelist, and was miraculously created.

    The funny thing in my opinion is that even though many barren women can, thanks to science, give birth to children today, no one is excited about it.

  15. Mishal,

    Thanks for the interesting story. It does present some kind of medical 'miracle', but does it really have anything to do with the last name change?

    Let's look at some facts:

    1. Infertile women rarely manage to conceive even without medical treatment. This is because infertility can arise from many reasons, and hormonal changes, among other things, can contradict it.

    2. Smallpox kills between 15% and 60% of the adult population, depending on the strength of the virus.

    3. Many people go to a rabbi for advice, and change their last name as a result.

    4. Stories tend to become more and more exaggerated and exaggerated as they pass from generation to generation.

    You will surely agree with me that a situation can happen in which, out of luck and randomness and nothing else, your great-grandmother and great-grandfather contracted smallpox and recovered (as they actually had a good chance of doing), and the shock of the disease resulted in a change in the level of hormones in the woman's body, which caused ovulation and the normal arrival of the sperm to the the egg All this regardless of the name change or the Rebbe's blessings.

    And another question: after all, many women have always been barren, and not all of them have been cured. If the Rebbe was so adept at canceling barrenness, it is likely that many women came to him for prayer from all over the Jewish world. Why, then, do we still hear about barren women from that time? The reason, apparently, is that the Rebbe did not heal them all. We simply only hear the stories from the few who were healed, as a result of luck and the placebo effect, and associate it with the Rebbe's blessing.

    And last but not least - stories passed down from generation to generation tend to undergo exaggerations and distortions, even if without the intention of malice or exaggeration on the part of the narrators. The result is that it is very difficult to accept the story you are telling us as the pure truth based on the facts alone.

    have a nice weekend,

    Roy.

  16. BSD

    I don't understand what the article and the comments (especially Michael's) are so angry about.

    I have a story that has been circulating in my family for many years, which proves that changing a last name has extremely positive energies that can cure particularly serious diseases and even help with fertility problems!

    The story happened in 1592 (100 years after the expulsion from Spain), and here is the story:
    In the province of Ouarzazate in Morocco, there lived a poor Jewish couple who had been married for some time and despite all their efforts, were unable to have children. They tried almost everything to get the woman pregnant. They prayed, they went to all the doctors around, but their efforts were in vain. Time passes, and they still don't have even one son!
    At one point the husband's cousin told the poor couple about an amazing rabbi whose name was known far and wide as someone whose prayers were answered.
    This is about Baba Ganoz, Zatzukal, a scion of a line of rabbis attributed to the Malach (Jewish quarter) which is in Marrakesh http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A8%D7%A7%D7%A9.
    As soon as the couple heard about the Baba Ganoz, they did not hesitate. They sold their house immediately and with the money they received bought two camels. They packed their few possessions and set out on the long journey to Marrakesh.
    During the long journey they passed a tribe of Arabs who were infected with smallpox, and without knowing they also contracted the cruel disease.
    After about five days from the day they contracted the disease, they arrived in the city of Marrakesh and found the rabbi's house.
    At this point they already began to see the signs of the disease and it was clear to the rabbi that they were in great danger.
    He immediately sat them back to back on chairs made of almond wood known for its healing properties.
    The rabbi put a towel on their heads that had previously been dipped in wine and anointed with garlic and olive paste.
    He began walking around them while throwing salt at them and muttering holy verses that he had learned from his grandfather - Baba Gonzalez (ZA).
    At the end of the strange treatment, he ordered them to add the name "Ganuz" to their family name and sent them on their way.
    He refused to take any payment from them despite their repeated pleas.

    Not only were they both cured of the serious illness, but when they returned back to their hometown, they had a first-born son nine months later.

    The son born to them is the grandfather of my grandfather's grandfather!

    And here you have it, Michael, scientific proof that changing a last name has tremendous virtues that can help people who have contracted very serious illnesses. Since scientific proofs such as these are not lacking, it is clear that you are harassing Oren Zarif, who is known as an excellent therapist, not to mention an actual miracle worker, due to honest attempts to make beneficial use of accumulated scientific knowledge!
    (And it is also worth noting that in Gematria the name "Zarif" is the same as the word "Yerfao", which is easily obvious that it has multiple healing properties, etc. Although the scientific proofs concerning the connections between Gematria and healing properties are not well-founded, and I am still checking the existence of similar stories for a family story, but regarding gematria and virtues.)

    With the blessing of Torah and science,

    Mishal Azoulai-Ganuz.

  17. Avigdor:
    I've already had this debate dozens of times even on this site and I don't have the strength to repeat everything but:
    I did not resort to any defamation. I made my point and I have to say that your response only makes you stronger.
    Your first response is in my eyes a slander of all scientists, but we will not go into that corner.
    I explained to you the difference between the religious belief that cannot be changed and the scientific "belief" that not only is changeable but that it changes suits every time a contradictory finding is found.
    It doesn't suit you so you inelegantly ignored it.
    I pointed you to a description of the subject of dark matter on Wikipedia so that the next time you talk about it you will know what you are talking about.
    Since you must have read everything, I must now conclude with almost absolute certainty that your mouth and your heart are not equal, because otherwise you would not have ignored the speed of rotation of the galaxies, the gravitational dusting around regions devoid of visible mass, and more and more, and only talking about the size of the universe, which dark matter has never been used to explain.
    I mean - now, after you've read and you probably understand, you ignore all the things that make you think there is dark matter and say that dark matter was invented for something completely different.
    What do you expect me to conclude from this?
    Should I conclude that the truth is a candle to your feet?

    People do not take advantage of religion. I have explained this dozens of times and I will explain it briefly one more time.
    Science deals with the search for truth and its fruits allow us to build technology.
    It is true that this technology can also be abused, but this is not an abuse of science, but an abuse of its fruits.
    Science does not push people to abuse technology, partly because science does not tell people what to do at all.
    The situation is reversed with religion.
    Religion does not produce knowledge and therefore has no fruits.
    Religion only tells people what to do, therefore it is not the people who abuse the religion but the opposite - it is the religion that abuses the people.
    Of course, this exploitation is intensified by additional people who activate the brainwashed legions created by religion (yes - religion actually has fruits and the fruits are brainwashed people who do not think critically and therefore can be manipulated as robots).
    I claim that religion is based on nothing. This is indeed a scientific theory and as such it can be disproved through experiment.
    The facts on which the claim is based are these: I have never found a person who can point to facts for which the correctness of religion is the most likely explanation.
    Like any scientific theory, this theory too cannot be proven. It can only be confirmed or disproved experimentally.
    The experiment I propose is to ask Avigdor what are the verifiable facts on which the religion is based.
    If you find such facts, you will disprove my claim, but I warn you: I do not undertake to accept your claim that the facts you point to are best explained by religion. I reserve the right to continue to think logically and refute the claims you make.

  18. Lavigdor:

    The analogy, to me, to dark matter which is a new player in the neighborhood, from the 21st century,
    It is the structure of the atom that they described in stages, all of which resulted from an observation that pursued an experiment that pursued another prediction, about 100 years ago.
    No one today disputes the existence of the standard model of the atom. It is a scientific fact that although our nervous system is not designed to deal with these standards, sophisticated observations and experiments have revealed its structure. I believe this will also be the fate of dark matter. Dark matter sounds like a magic word, physical hocus pocus, but there are probably good reasons to believe in its existence (which is not the same as believing in religious or mystical hocus pocus and the like) and it is clear to me that you will find a way in the future to decide on the issue of its existence..
    Misuse of science is often done by the policy makers, the politicians and also the religious people.
    There were also "scientists who tasted the taste of sin" in the words of Carl Sagan, but they are few, correct me if I'm wrong.
    Most of the scientists I know in one way or another do not have megalomaniacal tendencies to dominate the world, or imperialistic ambitions or a zeal to kill those who differ from them in their opinions and do not threaten us day and night. If we are not with them then we will not be at all.

    good day everybody.

    Sharon.

  19. Legal. No need to go into the depth of any nonsense. Stupidity and lies are already at the base of these things. I see no point in getting into the question of how many angels can fit through the eye of a needle, if I know in advance that there are no angels.
    Thus there is no basis for astrology, numerology, gematria (the last two stemmed from our desire to put things in order and someone got confused and decided that the signs we determined for the purpose of calculation have a life of their own), and so I can enumerate all this nonsense one by one. Regarding astrology, I published an article on the website detailing eight symptoms, each of which is enough to disprove it.

    Your proposal, to dismiss all nonsense only after studying it for 5 years at the university, has no basis and draws an equal conclusion between scientific knowledge accumulated "on the shoulders of giants" and invented knowledge created from one or another delusions, even if at the time they were considered the best explanation.
    What you propose is to loosen my hand and the hands of the too few who are engaged in this unpleasant business of telling the public that their king is naked, instead of strengthening us.

  20. To sum up: as of today, there is a futile war going on here. Period.

    Maybe someone will be able to prove to me that this decisive sentence is wrong...
    .

  21. Michael
    The defamation method does work sometimes, but before you accuse Shafi and Libi that they are not equal, you better check yourself.
    As a matter of fact - the fact that you read a very logical explanation for the facts still does not remove the theory from the realm of "belief". There is no doubt in the correctness of the quantum theory for example - since there are clear proofs of this (for example the computer from which I send the e-mail). But it should be remembered that the dark matter is required to justify the observations about the size of the universe for example. These observations or more precisely the facts arising from them are also based on a theory and not on solid proof - a theory that indeed explains the observations better than others but still - if you check honestly - it is ultimately a kind of circular argument. It is assumed that a physical phenomenon is the same throughout the universe and according to this observation requires finding what holds the universe together and then inventing dark matter which no one has discovered yet but which is the most logical explanation today.
    According to your last claim - the religious faith requires the observance of laws whose full existence causes a decent person to shout "Hams". What religious belief? Indeed, people use religion unfairly, but as far as I can remember, scientists do the same with science or in the name of science, and there are no shortage of examples - including the use of science for the horrific murder of innocents.
    Just as using science for the purpose of committing crimes does not undermine science but teaches the immorality of those who do it - so also those who use religion to commit crimes or dishonest acts - teach about their immorality and not about religion.
    And finally - you claim that religion is not based on anything - is this a scientific claim? If so - there should be a way to prove its correctness or incorrectness. What is this way?

  22. Avi Shalom,

    I have been reading (with great pleasure) from your pen for years. I'm basically close to your views, and any kind of "spill" phenomena irritates me too.

    Precisely because of this, I felt obliged to enlighten:

    Rational science requires modesty: a scientist will happily admit that we don't know much more than we do. Our scientific explanations for the things we have already discovered are also of limited liability, until a more well-founded theory is found that better predicts empirical results (and you will certainly be able to point out scientific truths that turned out to be wrong better than I can).

    In these circumstances, talking passionately about how all things that are not science should be thrown in the trash - is not scientific (since you have not scientifically tested all of these things).
    In general, it seems to me that this kind of fervor (what I believe in is true and everything else is nonsense), is more suitable for a religious person, and not a scientific person.

  23. America:
    If the method works (I prefer the phrase "the method" and not "the Torah" because the Torah is supposed to give an explanation) and we really know this, then it has stood the test of the experiment and should be acceptable to every scientist.

  24. Avigdor:
    I don't think your sperm and your heart are equal.
    You really don't know the difference between religious belief and the "belief" in dark matter?
    I wonder.
    The religious faith is unassailable, on the one hand, and is not based on anything, on the other hand.
    These are actually two different faces of the same thing because the scientific "belief" is based on observations of the facts and therefore it is undermined as soon as new observations show that the facts on which it is based are incorrect.
    If you want to read a little about the basis for the dark matter theory, you are welcome to read here:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_matter
    In any case, what is important is that no one "believes" in dark matter. This is all in all the most logical explanation we have for the facts and as soon as a better explanation is found, the dark matter will be removed from its "office".

    But the problem is, of course, much deeper because while dark matter or quarks or whatever you want from the field of science only serve us to understand reality, religious belief requires us to uphold a set of laws whose full existence causes the veins of a decent person's soul and conscience to cry out "Hams".

  25. Michael:

    I may not have followed. If so, then we agree. But I still have the feeling that you rule out the use of teachings from the East that have not yet been studied. And I say, if the Torah works, why don't we use it today, even though we don't know what it is that makes it effective?

  26. A. Ben-Ner:
    Science "wins" for each person for different reasons and it is not true that the introduction brings him the victory. There are many people to whom the introduction has reached a long time ago who continue to believe every possible nonsense.
    In my opinion, in our "progressive" country they are the overwhelming majority and in fact this is the case throughout the "enlightened" world.
    You can find striking examples of this among the commenters here - after all, a person who uses his personal computer to write nonsense on the Internet cannot be described as a person who does not enjoy the achievements of science!).
    It is not because people dismiss the achievements of science (it is difficult to call the pursuit of the Ayatollah's country after the nuclear as "disqualification of science") but because they see science simply as "the work of the scientist" as they see carpentry as the "work of the carpenter" and they do not understand that science is a comprehensive approach to the study of reality.
    That way they can reconcile these conflicting worlds without any problem. Science is the "servitude of the scientist" and the description of the truth is what is written in the Holy Scriptures.
    The only way to change this situation is through education.
    I brought the placebo only as an example and for my part - take any other example. Comfort or whatever you want - just put them in the sentence instead of the placebo. I should add, however, that there is a limit to every prank. The "consolation", in most cases is not the right solution. It is not for nothing that religion has been described as an "opium for the masses". Although it is true that in severe and painful disease states we do not have a solution that is better than opium, but this is not a reason to allow drugs for everyone.

  27. America:
    I don't know why ambivalent words will be spared.
    I once used the saying "even a blind rooster sometimes finds a grain" and what I do is to separate the grains from the blindness and prevent the adoption of blindness as a way to find grains.
    See, for example, a quote from my response to Avner in this very debate:
    "There are indeed things that mystics do that may be useful, but these things do not arise from mysticism. Psychological truths such as the placebo effect are tested by science which tries to find ways to use them for good, and even certain drugs that delusional people use may turn out to be useful (and many drugs started out as "medicines" Grandma" even before science had time to test their effectiveness) but all these useful things are not useful because of mysticism but because of what they are and if they are indeed useful then science (especially medical science) will eventually adopt them if it has not adopted them already."

  28. To all the religious attackers in the comments as well as to Mr. Avi Blizovsky - I have a question that bothers me a lot:
    What do you call the belief in the existence of dark matter in the universe - and this is according to the theory in your language - an absolute majority of the matter in the universe.
    You claim that it is indeed impossible to distinguish it, but without its existence it is not possible to explain the state of the universe (its expansion and size) according to the known laws of nature.
    How is this belief/theory better than beliefs that you call superstitions, ignorance and other derogatory names that I will not repeat. So that there is no mistake - my question is a real question and not for the sake of confrontation. I am a science lover and with an emphasis on the whole topic of particles and astrophysics, so this question bothers me so much. On the face of it, it seems dishonest to me to say so confidently that there is dark matter and claim that it is more scientific than other beliefs
    good day

  29. Michael:

    As for your question: relative to the article, as well as to most of your responses, you are ambivalent.

    On the one hand, I am a science lover, and a person who considers himself rational for as long as I can remember. On the other hand, I don't see the so-called "new era" as absolute nonsense. It is necessary to separate - this field is indeed fertile ground for charlatans such as Oren Zarif, but there is some truth in it. It is possible that the explanations we hear about alternative treatments, the properties of medicinal plants or the benefits of meditation are poetic explanations that are not scientific, but their effectiveness is proven. For example, an elderly Chinese practicing tai chi will explain to you in a non-scientific way the benefits of the method, but in practice, the fact that he has been practicing tai chi all his life has kept his body, flexibility and mental health and thus brought him to an extreme age. I want to say - even if the explanation given is not rational, this does not mean that the effectiveness of the method does not exist. Furthermore, in most cases the influence of that "New Age" method can be explained in a purely scientific way. Therefore, there are many ideas that come from the East that I actually believe in, even if I don't accept the explanation for their effectiveness, such as: except for eating food of animal origin, being careful about sleeping hours, tai chi as a sport that prevents and sometimes even rehabilitates orthopedic problems, etc.
    By the way, many doctors recommend to add to conservative treatment one or another treatment from complementary medicine. So even educated people who identify with rationalism sometimes take sides in this area.

    As for the reporter's reference to energies - again, the simplistic approach is wrong. A person who "brings good energies" for that matter, is a charismatic person, a person who often smiles and sees things in a positive light. The search for the "chemical formula" of positive energy is stubborn, and arrogant. It is certain that this chemical formula does not exist. After all, this is a parable.

    As for the reporter's criticism of the media, I agree. The media in Israel is becoming shallow day by day. The news broadcasts on the various channels take on the tone of a reality show day by day. The reviews have long been non-objective, and even the presentation. I also agree with the criticism of the program "The Beautiful and the Nerd", although it should be remembered that from the beginning it is a non-serious reality show, and that is how it should be viewed (if at all 🙂 ).

    And regarding the state of education in Israel - the story is short, and I probably won't be able to list its shortcomings here.

    good day

  30. To Michael, I read with interest your response to my response to the article. It seems to me that there are no differences of opinion regarding the essence of concepts such as "knowledge" or "scientific truth" and there are no differences of opinion between us regarding the importance and necessity of studying the "philosophy and history of science". However, when I say that there is some degree of "psychological truth" in mysticism, I do not mean the placebo phenomenon but the concept of "consolation". Comfort is an extremely important human concept in my view, and its essence is mental help and spiritual support for people for whom society (through science, economics, medicine and the other resources at its disposal) has no possibility of helping and improving their situation, and this is meant both from the medical point of view and from the socio-economic point of view. People, in such desperate situations, find their solace in various mystical teachings, some religious, some commercial and some commercial in a religious guise. What they all have in common is the essence of the transaction between them and their clients (trustees) and it is:
    You will receive from me - comfort through illusion
    You will give me - money.
    Mysticism is "the option of no choice"
    of the weak and failing parts of society.
    Science wins. But not thanks to convincing arguments in academic discussions, but thanks to the technological progress (!!!) it brings to humanity. Therefore, the more technological progress reaches more people, the more scientific culture will advance and overcome mysticism.

  31. I recently received a press release about the start of operation in September. I intended to translate it on occasion. Probably this weekend. Hopefully of course.

  32. To my father Blizovsky,
    A small question, what is going on with the experiments and operation at the LHC facility?

  33. Poets are limited in terms of their ability to think scientifically. The power of your imagination dominates the power of logic. Whereas in scientific thinking, the power of reason must ultimately dominate the power of imagination.
    It can also be seen from your comments, they are indeed related in a certain way to what was said, but you seem to be missing the point.

  34. to the point, or point of grace, the nice or nice,
    Amazing, how a short sentence, a short question mark, leads to talk and another thing.
    If on purpose, mine? So no...but this, if you've already asked, awakens the insights in me
    taught in the laws of graphology..page..space..etc..am I in my being, or in my personality.occupying the whole space, or leaving room for another as well..ok...okay.
    It turns out that I'm more of a vertical type.. Wow, that rings a bell.. Selfish.. Well, I've always drawn
    Cypress!..besides, it's the boundary and the spatial square that was planed for me here on the computer, and no
    I bothered to expand it.
    And besides, I am a great poet, which your grandchildren and great-grandchildren will cherish very much in the future...
    And so, apparently, true poets of the spirit write.

    Well, that was the answer..to the brilliant point on the site.

  35. His:
    Your words indicate that you do not understand what science is.
    Read my response to "simple"

  36. Thanks to America for correcting the mistakes. I will not enter into a discussion of these issues.
    As for the lettuce: it is clear that there is no energy, every particle in the universe has potential (penny) or kinetic (active) energy, but not in the positive or negative sense of "good and bad". And besides, I admit one big mistake I made: I went to an idol doctor who put me in energy (positive) and took money out of me (overdraft). And finally: there are charlatans who work on people, not only because they want to make money but mainly because people want to buy illusions.

  37. America:
    You are right in your comments to Yoram.
    I did not comment on the things because even if they are not accurate, to me it is more important to fight back against the opponents of science and the New Age enthusiasts than to teach people math.
    Now I have a question for you.
    What will you save for the article itself?

  38. Michael,
    I know all the systems, inside and out... much more than you can
    Come to your mind, including the field you were in, and more, I don't lack a lot of experience, and age
    Blessed, I wish everyone, and blessed intelligence, to absorb very quickly what is happening.
    I'm not mentioning this to show off, or to be arrogant, although, what's the point?
    I am, by all means, and I have no intention, really, no intention of lowering my values
    The special one.. I'm not going to any elections, thank God, not to television, thank you, there's no need,
    But I say, and I will continue to say, in every human way called by my destiny, I will consider you.
    If I wrote more than 26 books...for me, let history read them in its own way,
    Even if they left after I left the world... there is no local in a hurry to go anywhere, there is a family.

    I had, and do not have, any intention to harm, not you, not anyone, and all the acquaintances
    Me truly and sincerely, this has been known throughout my entire history in life.
    In the meantime, until my last day on earth, I will continue to study, and if the matter changes
    If I have a category on him, hidden or visible, I will also learn the wisdom of the matter, and bless him.

  39. to Yoram,

    Let me set you straight on your mistakes:
    Although a scalar is a magnitude, it can certainly be a negative magnitude. For example, temperature. For example, sea level. For example, four minus five. All are scalars, negative.

    When it is said that a therapist transfers energies in therapy, it is not about energy as a physical quantity; Rather, in a metaphorical sense. The same goes for overly critical people.

    "Well, lettuce has no energy" a direct quote from your words. Well, lettuce has energy stored in it, like all plants. In nutrition calculations, which estimate how many calories will be added to your body when you eat this or that food, the lettuce "adds" you a negative amount of calories (of course, this is after taking into account the energy added from eating the lettuce minus the energy your body wasted in processing it).

    Organic food - apparently, you didn't understand the poet's intention. No one claims that a tomato grown in a normal greenhouse is not piney. "Organic vegetables" is a general term for vegetables grown without spraying, without the addition of antibiotics, without genetic engineering, etc. The above name, among other things, is a marketing name, but obligates those who use it to meet a certain standard. By the way, from my personal experience, tomatoes that I grow in my garden taste a thousand times better than large, tasteless tomatoes that are sold in the supermarket.

    "And more: there are those who claim that if you only eat plant material you will be able to lose weight." That's what you said. What are you talking about? Does this statement prove anything about all the other topics you discussed before? It's kind of like if I write "I knew someone who claimed that science could make a person break the light speed barrier in the next decade" and from here I will conclude that science is a field for non-serious people. To the point - if you doubt this, a controlled diet is indeed a guarantee of health, stable weight, etc. You should not listen to (and certainly not quote) all "those who claim".

    And regarding the last sentence - what about the exercise in percentages for the 100th grade and the article? What does he prove? (Da, you know that if a train leaves Tel Aviv at XNUMX kms while I leave Haifa in its direction at half its speed…….)

    good week

  40. Hugin:
    If you read my letter to the Minister of Education, you must have seen that I am not advocating for schools that overload the children with information, but for those that train them to think.
    On the contrary - it is precisely the religious training that suppresses thought by loading the child with (wrong) information while stifling his ability to understand and criticize.
    That's why your words burst into an open door.

  41. simple:
    You're not sure because you don't want to see.
    Any reasonable person can be completely sure.
    Science is not about being right. Science is not about anything. It only defines standards (actually self-evident, but only for those who want to understand) on the ways in which the truth can be investigated and its whole purpose is to prevent the spread of claims that do not stand the test of reality as truth.
    This.
    Therefore, since it is not concerned with anything, science is also not concerned with being right.
    The scientists are human and it is important for them to be right, but because they are subject to the standards of science, they know that in order to be right, they have to meet the standards, so this is what they usually do. They conduct studies according to the scientific standard and attack the studies of other scientists when they believe that they do not meet the standard.
    That's why - partly because of envy of writers - science abounds in wisdom.

    And what about religion?
    She really makes an almost endless collection of unsubstantiated claims and pretends to be right.
    The religious who are captives in it cannot agree - neither with the conclusions of scientific research that refute certain claims in religion, nor with the very requirement of science to be open to criticism.

    That's the whole argument.
    There are many people who understand the difference between science and religion and therefore understand the debate.

  42. Michael, I just read your response, and the letter you sent to the Minister of Education,

    If so, I will tell you that I also delivered a letter to Yossi Sherid a few years ago,
    When, he visited the high school in our towns, and after, and it is important for me to note this, that he left the game
    The political - this should give you a big hint... that I am not affiliated with the system, but he is
    At stake are the children, and I am, by all that implied, an exemplary parent.
    My arguments are as follows:
    Since, (and here I will insert the previous article, which sparked this discussion) and the children's life span
    Greetings, much longer than the life of a chameleon, you can't, already from first grade... bombard children with an artillery of at least 10 teachers... when the child is not interested at all
    To absorb and listen to all the brain and mind filth that floods it..which you can't
    To oblige him to go with a bag..that grandmothers go to the market with..too much weight
    and overweight.
    Life has rhythms of development, and at each stage each and every one can, in their own way, strive
    to learn.. let the children live..! You can teach them the basics, tools that are good for life
    And there is a home, at least for everyone...at least for those who don't do nonsense, and break up "packages" because of all kinds...ego wars of all kinds, my opinion is firm
    Matter of fact, and we all go through classes and survival tests along the way.
    The school system is very necessary, because we, like all of us, are social creatures, and that is part of it
    necessary for shaping our personality.
    But turning schools into certificate factories, and a compulsive race to swallow the
    The whole world in a short period of time is fundamentally wrong and wrong, you see unhappy teachers
    Persecuted by themselves within their system, and they themselves are already confused by the whole thing.

    There is a fundamental omission, in everything.
    On the other hand, there are stuffed, confused ambitious parents, whose motto is: involvement
    Communal..and when you ask yourself, for whom are they doing everything, and for whom? It turns out
    To you..that nestles there..below the surface-and on its surface, the need..to be the head..of something.
    And it turns out that they also push the children into a corner, which they do not want at all.

    A life philosophy, common sense, simple arithmetic, reading and writing, are the basis.
    When, every fart, sorry for the expression, from the inventor-the groisa a bargain, a theory, a method
    A new one, a new look, one might think, another stupid booklet, and more and more
    Really, it seems to you that children of H-Y-B-Y-M, learn all these towers, and more
    Test?? This is it! Here the children learn to lie, so they are stressed, and you are stressed
    More.. for achievement, that's the name of the game! And I'm telling you, and you... it's all bullshit!

    Well, soon I will go to hell, as I said to my people, nice demands-nice fulfills.

    In any case, what Makomi wants to say: everything in its time!
    Think about it, internalize it, digest it... and learn in their own way, before yourselves only!
    Really, all the best!
    rule

    And here I will insert the previous article

  43. Hello my father, the guests of the scientist, and all.. (I learned this from Michael.. You see, I do
    studying..)
    A. Really well done for this required article, and for the questions that are really necessary for all of us
    In order to check everything and give all the running personalities access to the right proportions, or, as he gave a nice nomenclature to the matter, Chief Justice Haim
    Herman Cohen, at the time, "proportionality".
    B. I have not yet read the comments, if any, from last night, in order not to be biased,
    But this article is the most correct response, in order to shed light on
    Everything affects us all, including the raging extreme situations and extremes
    Especially, at this time in our world.
    third. There are few people in the world today, who cannot read and write, read, A, B...
    And this basis allows each and every one, and everyone who wants to learn and acquire freedom
    To read books from all over the world, in order to understand the mysteries of the universe, mysteries
    The nature of the phenomena, the behaviors, the course of cultures, etc., etc.
    So, if you don't, you put yourself in one basket of belonging...professionally, systemically
    domain, and letting things control you...not to mention controlling others, which is the point
    The fundamental wrong..worse than that is that basically every person, who allows others, to rule
    By his choice, and he is lazy, or closed to see the essence of things and the main things by himself, after all
    I have already mentioned, all means are open and will be opened in our time to everyone.
    And for the sake of it, it's enough if you visit any book chain today...Kalab or anywhere, you'll find
    A huge flow of knowledge from all fields, one can say that the archives of history have opened up
    Their hair, for everyone with good judgment and reason, to purchase them and raise them for his education and freedom.

    D. There are talkbackists here, whose sincerity I believe, when they say they are
    truth seekers
    If the site of science, in the name of "science", will close its doors to attitudes, thoughts, and speculations
    High, as small, and formations of thought-consciousness-other intelligences, will
    The thing, and by and large, that in the name of science, whose flag was born, and whose infrastructure was established from the beginning
    For the investigation of all the phenomena, in an empirical-experimental-experiential way, as a failure, Chas
    If he does not comply with pure honesty - the study of all the phenomena, and in the highest moral way
    The required..readable-moral-intellect and lessons acquired by all of history up to these days.

    E. Any superstition - if one does not acquire the desire and knowledge to understand, and it is really dangerous
    If you don't, you become a zombie blind to the forces that hold it.

    The same goes for insipid medicines that serve huge powers...and people
    Workers, and six zombies, who don't believe in themselves, or that society has trickled down
    To them, Minkota of Yankota.. let things be quiet.
    Again, in our blood, lest we forget,.. see the book: the periodic table of... you are sure
    You know... that chemist, he was a partner, of course, unintentionally and on purpose, in creating it
    The gas, which, by the way, strangely, served to destroy us, back then.

    Well, that's it, for now, I have a joke about lettuce, for Yoram, especially, but this
    for next time..
    Did I mention that my place really hates people who take money to heal
    Or take care of others? Seemingly? In short: keep your name, and yourself.. and learn..

  44. I'm not sure which side is more demonized - science or spirit?
    Don't both sides treat each other with disdain.
    Both sides are so busy being right.
    Both sides speak different languages.
    Both parties cancel each other.

    In short - both sides still need to grow up,
    to learn and understand reality more and maybe, who knows,
    Maybe they will grow up and understand each other someday.

  45. A. Ben-Ner:
    You say that "those who think they know the whole truth are mistaken" and forget that such people exist only among believers. Scientists always know that they do not know the whole truth and that even that part of the truth that they "know" can turn out to be wrong many days.
    You further claim that "there is some truth in mysticism as well" and I completely deny that.
    There are indeed things that mystics do that may be useful, but these things do not arise from mysticism. The psychological truths such as the placebo effect are tested by science which tries to find ways to use them for good and even certain drugs that delusional people use may turn out to be useful (and many drugs started out as "grandmother drugs" even before science had time to test their effectiveness) but all these useful things are not useful because of mysticism but because of what they are and if they are indeed useful then science (especially medical science) will eventually adopt them if it has not already adopted them.
    The science war cannot work in positive logic or any other logic because it is directed against doctrines that deny logic.
    This war should begin, as already mentioned, in the education system, which nowadays one can leave without knowing what "knowing" means.
    A person who does not know the meaning of the word "to know" and does not understand the close connection between this term and critical thinking, easily falls victim to the sellers of illusions who provide him with pointless statements instead of knowledge.

  46. No need to make excuses, it is not a sin to look at female beauty. Millions watch the Mona Lisa and some were willing to pay billions for it. It is not a scientific fact and was created by a scientist/artist. Not everything is science. The science of the past is the mysticism of today (see Astrology/Astronomy, Alchemy/Chemistry and there are more). Without those ancestors we wouldn't have what we have, even though every generation thinks it was where everything started. This is pride. If you claim logic then it is likely that in a hundred or two hundred years our science will also look a bit mystical. Man is a religious creature by nature because he has an emotion that does not always obey the voice of reason. The combination of both makes everything so interesting, surprising, unexpected, exciting, beautiful (and some less beautiful things). Maybe you would agree to a 10/90 or 20/80 (reason/emotion) mix, but it doesn't work that way. There is evolution here (another non-mathematical thing..) and for some reason even 'education' does not always help. Maybe indoctrination? In the former Soviet Union they did this and what happened? There are endless bouchekas (folk clinics) and all kinds of hypnotists. By the way, do you remember what unimportant people named Newton were doing? Pascal? Don't take my words as if I am encouraging mysticism, but to see science as visualizing everything is one-sided. Do you think that a government of scientists would make our life here a paradise? You know you don't. Most of the time we use our intellect to justify our not so logical actions. Once you touch life everything becomes much more complicated.
    Maybe you liken the person to a bag of materials that if we just add/subtract from him what is needed, kill what is harmful (??) and teach him what is right and what is wrong then everything will be wonderful.
    We are on an evolutionary journey and it is not a united front. A man landed on the moon 39 years ago and on the streets of Tel Aviv there are still old people with a horse and cart. And it still works…
    And there are also people who are healed by faith/placebo or despite the drugs. The main contribution to our health and longevity is thanks to science/industry which has improved the quality of our lives beyond recognition. Investments of tens of billions in the USA in cancer research since the moon landing have yielded very little in comparison.

  47. The letter I sent to the Minister of Education:

    The subject: the need for teaching the philosophy of science

    In recent years, Israeli society has experienced a continuous wave of repentance.
    This drift is just one of the manifestations of growing, in Israel and in the world, after irrational explanations and a mystical and illusory worldview, which manifests itself, beyond repentance, also in the increasing adoption of the "philosophies" of the "new" era (those that before receiving the pretentious oil were known as the superstitions of the Middle Ages) and pseudoscientific approaches such as alternative "medicine".
    In the debates in which the phenomenon is discussed, the claim that the scope is a direct result of the emptiness of secular life is repeated. This claim is also often made by people who have chosen a secular life.
    As a secularist by free choice, I know for sure that there is nothing in this claim.
    It is true that the lives of many of those who call themselves secular are empty of real content, especially nowadays, after the fulfilling potential of the vision of the establishment of the state has been exhausted, but this emptiness is not inherent to secularism; It characterizes only the products of the secular education system in Israel (and in the world).
    In order to understand what is wrong with the education system, perhaps it is useful to understand what was the factor that led to the end of the Middle Ages and the liberation of some people from the captivity of the superstitions in which they were imprisoned as babies. It is not difficult to notice that this factor is the development of the scientific approach to the study of reality.
    It is also understandable, against this background, why the religious establishments attacked as much as they could the representatives and conclusions of the scientific approach which is the exact opposite of the religious approach based on blind faith, without examination, in the axioms chosen by the founders and religious establishments.
    The conclusion that emerges clearly from the above is that one of the most effective tools in the fight against that "voluntary ignorance" is the instilling of the values ​​of the scientific method by the education system or, in other words, the teaching of the philosophy of science.
    Unfortunately, most students are not intelligent enough to deduce this philosophy only from the teaching material that is taught when teaching specific sciences such as physics, chemistry or biology, and a special framework is required that will place them on the common values ​​of the entire scientific approach (a striking proof that even some of the sciences are taught in a "religious" manner " is the fact that most students of the advanced scientific majors finish their studies in high school without noticing the fact that they were taught two "physics" - the one in which a system reaches equilibrium when the balance of forces is zero and the one in which equilibrium is reached when the potential energy is minimal - and without understanding that the question must be asked Why do the solutions of one physics agree with those of the other).
    This is where I come, of course, to the recommendation for which I wrote this letter.
    I think that the inclusion of compulsory classes in the philosophy of science in the curricula is a definite need of the hour.
    Furthermore: if there is something I would expect the education system to provide to students even if its budget is cut to the extent that it will not allow it to teach more than one subject, it is the philosophy of science.

    In a conversation I had with my friend from Manger - Professor Hagit Messer Yaron - Hagit expressed agreement with my words. She said, however, that in her opinion the education system would find it difficult to establish a complete teaching system for the subject and that it would be worthwhile, therefore, to start with a simpler task such as declaring a certain academic year as the "year of rationality" in which selected values ​​of the scientific approach would be instilled in all students.

  48. I completely agree with the article as well as many of the commenters.
    I particularly identified with the words of Amadeus, according to the content of his words I do not understand why he said at the beginning that my father exaggerates because it seems to me that he agrees with him one hundred percent.
    So that you can see the degree of agreement - I will attach in a separate response a letter that I sent about two years ago to Shmuel Abuav and Anat Zohar from the Ministry of Education. A letter that received only an evasive answer that there is not even room to quote.
    By the way, Amadeus, your positions are completely in line with part of the platform of a new party that has recently arisen - the "Or" party.
    You should try to find out about it and maybe act within it.

  49. To my dear father Blizovsky.
    In my humble opinion, your enterprise, "Hidan", is an invaluable and important enterprise without equal in bringing scientific, current news, and various scientific-philosophical ideas, to the knowledge of a wide interested audience.
    It is not in the interests of this (c) site to engage in phlogta with mystical methodologies. It is unnecessary, unhelpful, and may even be harmful.
    I will list at least two reasons for my position. The first one is simple.
    the second b. - consists of:
    A. There is no chance that a "frontal attack" of rationalism against mysticism will convince,
    Even a single mystic, because the mystical belief, at its core, ignores and even rejects every rational idea and gives desire, dream, imagination and illusion the status of an existing fact.
    B. He who thinks he knows the whole truth is wrong. It turns out that even in mysticism there is some truth. Probably a psychological truth, which may help people in different situations. It is enough to mention the trivial fact that science, despite all its conceptual and technological achievements, is still far from finding solutions to many of humanity's ills and difficulties such as: hunger, thirst, various diseases, and the main-the-main-the-main...the problem of death. The oppression is like a millstone on our neck - all our lives.

    Science, unfortunately, is a luxury only for the resistant, certainly academic
    Science and its ideas are not available to the poor populations. Although from a technological point of view, the poor also benefit from scientific progress.

    In conclusion: the "war" of science and progress should only be done with positive logic. Only the achievements of science will buy him fans and interested parties. A culture war against the Uri-Glars Oren-Zerif and Hannon-Yitzchak will only increase their popularity and glorify their name because they are already worthy of science (and therefore equal in status) to science in its own right.

  50. Father, thank you very much for the energy 😉 you invest in this issue.
    I also watched the above segment in the beautiful and nerdy show and it left a very bad taste.

  51. Father, thanks for the article. I agree with everything you said about Zarif.

    For our purposes, I believe that this is a media spin and not much more than that. Zarif apparently believes that all advertising is good advertising (which is not far from true, when your target audience does not think critically in the first place). The employees who will be fired can sue him and win the lawsuit without any effort. Will they do so? That's another question.

    age,

    A placebo effect that resulted in the disappearance of a cancer has not yet been demonstrated. The prayer or the positive energy that heals a person suffering from tuberculosis/syphilis, etc., has not yet been demonstrated to be as effective as antibiotics, if at all. The medical establishment and the research behind it are responsible for all of this.

    I suggest that you go to one of the hospitals that you are talking about, go into the various departments and be exposed to the holy work that is done there. Doctors and researchers save the health and lives of children, teenagers, adults and the elderly every day. Many of those who are hospitalized gain decades of extra years of life thanks to the treatment they received.

    It is a great shame that Oren Zarif receives such exposure from the media, while most of the major newspapers in Israel do not even have a scientific reporter qualified for his work.

  52. Anyone who studied physics (even high school) knows that energy is a scalar quantity greater than or equal to zero. In other words, energy has no direction, therefore it is impossible to say that energy is negative. The confusion is complete:
    - The therapist cannot transfer "energies" to you during treatment.
    - Many think that if someone thinks critically, they have negative energy.
    - Someone once told me that lettuce has "negative energy" because to digest lettuce you need more energy than the lettuce gives to the body. Well lettuce has no energy. The body invests energy to digest the lettuce and maybe it will lose weight because it will burn organic matter. It already belongs to the field of thermodynamics.

    Another topic: "organic" food Almost all the food we eat is organic matter except maybe salt which is a mineral. Therefore, if someone buys food that does not have "organic" written on it, they are buying "organic material". More than that: the producers who sell "organic food" boast that they have not used pesticides. Well, most pesticides are organic substances, such as DDT. Some also contain a mineral that combines with organic matter such as parathion which contains "organic phosphorus".

    And more: there are those who claim that if you eat only plant material you will be able to lose weight.
    I tried sugar (from the plant) honey (from the plant) grapes and raisins (from the plant),
    And I didn't lose a single gram. I also often drink coffee and wine (from the plant).

    By the way, if you eat 100 grams of 3% cheese you will eat more fat than if you eat 50 grams of 5% cheese. That's why you should look not only at the percentages but also at the amount you eat.

  53. age. The mind comes out damaged by this whole story.
    Is it better to be healthy and stupid? I do not think so.

  54. As a scientist you will also agree with me that the very belief that something will heal you
    The pedestal will cause the body to heal itself.
    Just like placebo drugs cure patients.
    And doing healing meditation or anything in the field will make the body and mind feel good
    Something that contributes a lot to health.
    It's much healthier these days than going to hospitals and catching resistant germs
    Or get a series of drugs whose side effects alone will destroy you.
    Today's medicine is about keeping corpses alive > life without life.
    Those who enter a hospital usually do not leave alive

  55. You are exaggerating a bit, although they are all charlatans, but not all of them consciously. There are those who genuinely believe they can heal someone or predict the future.

    In my opinion, it is necessary to start from school, to educate people to think according to the scientific method. I mean not only to learn science as facts, but for students to understand the principle and philosophy behind science, and how the scientific method is different (and why it is better) relative to any other method that claims to learn about the world.
    Educating a public of adults is indeed a good and welcome thing, but in my opinion it is a bit late, and we should start with the children.

    In my opinion, the target should be not only the secular public, but also the religious. We need to find a way to give ultra-Orthodox religious, with the help of education in schools and yeshivas, tools with which they can criticize their faith, and if God wills, even renounce it. The method should be completely neutral, that God forbid there would be no religious coercion, or preaching to some worldview, or against another worldview. Something that is close to logic or simple principles of the sciences, maybe also citizenship and an understanding of what human rights are, and things like freedom of thought.
    In my opinion, one of the goals of the secular public should be to free these unfortunate people from the shackles of religion. Not by force, not by coercion, but by imparting knowledge. Religion is responsible for many of the ills of Israeli society.
    Not only should the humiliation be stopped, and the core program returned to the religious schools, but the subject (or the number of subjects I suggested) should also be included in the program, *and in addition to that*, an ultimatum should be issued. Either they accept the program, or the state stops all funding of the ultra-religious educational institutions that do not agree to include this program. In addition, only secular people will be able to transfer it.

    It is not possible for a secular country to fund from the tax payer's money the orthodox stupidity, and a worldview that is completely contrary to the foundations on which the country is founded, including any healthy human society. If they want funding, let them also receive the world view of the country in which they live.

    Okay, I got a little carried away from the main topic, but I believe that the topic of religion is directly related to the other shameful evils in the pseudo-science categories, and superstitions, and not only that, but religion is the main superstition that controls our lives, much more than any other "alternative healing" that exists.

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