healing crystals

Heidi and Spencer Pratt, the dummies from The Hills, are broke. In part because Spencer spent $200,000 on healing crystal. LOL CNN video link http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2010/11/03/sbt.speidi.bankrupt.hln?hpt=T2

I was amazed to read this completely uncritical 'explanation' of the alleged healing effects of crtsyals on the Manchester Evening News' website - manchestereveningnews.co.uk/lifestyle/health_and_beauty/health_and_beauty_feature/s/1019773_crystal_power (Sorry, can't post urls here yet...) How...

http://www.themagicwandshop.co.uk/content.php?categoryId=260 sells healing crystals, guardian angel pyramids, and "Dolphin Ascension" music and yet they use an image of Harry Houdini on their webpage. One of the pioneers in the field of debunking nonsense is being used to hawk flimflam.

I'm always curious to hear how someone like Kilik would explain it. Again, no links please. How does a crystaline mineral formation, simply by virtue of its presence alone, affect your physical well being? Kilik, I hand the floor over to you.

My step-uncle has a friend of his, lives in mexico, that carries out a yearly scam against the misguided and ignorant masses. There is a local harvest fair in his town once a year that lasts about three days. He orders 10 bags of impure quartz crystals of various colors from China, which he...

Imagine my surprise when I first saw the headline of this story: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993611 Turns out that iron oxide levels in the brain are linked to Alzheimer's disease. Interesting stuff, and another reason to stop taking those iron supplements... Mr. Turquoise