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Welcome to Zygoma. This is my personal blog and the views expressed here are not those of my employer (the National Museum of Ireland), they are mine and solely mine.

The disclaimer out of the way, I hope you enjoy my mystery object on Fridays and my occasional thoughts on a variety of scientific, sceptical and museological subjects.

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What is Natural?

People often use the argument that something is ‘natural’ or ‘not natural’ to defend an intuitively derived position. But what does this actually mean, and does it have any validity as an argument?

Gratuitous photo of the Earth, since its natural (mostly)

Gratuitous photo of the Earth, since it's natural (mostly)

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October 1, 2009 by PaoloViscardi Categories: rationalism | Tags: fallacy, logic, morality, nature, naturopathy, not natural, woo | 6 Comments

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