Homeopaths Use Witchcraft to Influence Parliament
Anders Sandberg summarizes his recent visit to a homeopathy conference and links a hilarious story where homeopathy advocates try to project psychic energy to "support homeopathy and try to confound our enemies." Here's the directions:
1. Choose a place away from electronic interference, mobiles, phones, TV etc. Add a plant, meditation music whatever helps you personally get into a meditative state.
2. Sit either in an upright chair or cross legged or similar
3. 1st 5 minutes: slow your breathing… in through your nose and out through your mouth for 15 seconds each minute, then
4.From 9:05 – 9:15 pm focus clearly on the statement below in whatever way suits you, see the Committee accepting Homeopathy works, or people being able to have Homeopathy treatment on the NHS, feel positive and joyful, really see, hear, smell, sense (whichever way you imagine/visualize) the reality of it.
“We intend the outcome for the UK homeopathy evidence check to be wholly and fully in favour of homeopathy. We intend for the vast and thorough body of scientific data supporting the efficay of homeopathy to be seen, heard and recognised as valid, solid and scientific. This is so, and it is doneâ€
Let's use prayer to make placebo remedy be regarded as scientific!
December 2nd, 2009 - 03:17
If it doesn’t work, it is at the least insulting, intimidating, manipulative and deceitful. Loudly claiming you use these tools has significant effect in Africa.
If it does work, it would be criminal coercion and if provable they belong in prison.
Billions of religious groups do not hold back in using the threat of their auschwitzer over the head of ‘sinners’ and ‘unbelievers’. That’s witchcraft too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Abx6Y2Q4M&feature=related !
December 2nd, 2009 - 10:57
How distinctly odd! They are using a completely unscientific method in order to get their ‘body of scientific data’ accepted.
I wonder how they can justify believing in two completely contrary ideas? It would seem at some point the two would clash and only one would remain. It would be interesting to use some Socratic questioning to get them to that point faster and see what happens.
December 2nd, 2009 - 17:58
I guess this is a beautiful example of natural selection; wacky beliefs self-select to go extinct.
December 4th, 2009 - 06:49
that’s very strange and disturbing, since a lot of guys in homepoathy industry are not that stupid and actually are normal scientists, who just happened not to be able to explain convincingly what they are doing, but that’s different story. Are you sure its not a joke or something?