woowoo

Girl at the gym (very loud girl, very big, very in-your-face) declaring at age 27 she had premature menopause. I mentioned "so you have premature ovarian failure." No, it was menopause she said. She also said "they" (her doctor?) found a cyst in her...boob. Girl says "I only take natural...

This evening I visited the yearly "Huuhaa"-award ceremony of Finnish Skepsis society. The guest speaker this year was Mr. Randi. First, from my point of view the ceremony happened on the worst possible night since I have a hard deadline tomorrow morning (I have reserved time from a bookbinder...

This guy woowoo'd Texas and part of Colorado into his own little country. :D Republic of Texas?

As we grow older and leave adolescence far behind [sad], we also inevitably adopt a more skeptic view towards love. We will usually not fall in love anymore with a girl at first sight, or at least will not fantasize too hard about her ;) Women will look for a little more in a man than beautiful...

Yes I am a believer... in precognition and telepathy. I remain skeptical about the nature of God, UFOs, dowsing (which I don't consider paranormal) and mediumship. I believe, not from any blind faith, but from first hand experiences. My earliest recollection, and my parents like to recount this...

Compare and contrast the attitudes and forward action around this http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/04/health/04CND-CHOL.html?hp To ANYTHING that you can come up with in the world of Woo. In a nutshell, a wild theory is tested with "clear" results. Next step, massive replication. Bidda bang...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/altmed/ 11/6 is the airdate.

Come on, it's psuedo-science. Jerry Peterson makes lots and lots of claims, but rarely backs any of them up. The SCARS group is just a money-making scheme that promises little effort to make a person into an undefeatable fighting machine. I'd like to see Peterson get into a fight with Tito...

Parents sue school over wireless network Um, anyone know of any of this "growing body of evidence?"

You know, I first heard about Project Alpha when I was a kid, and have always been fascinated by it. To my mind, it seems like the only way to get through to some people is not TELL them that their sacred cows aren't actual all that holy. You have to get down and actually murder them...

So I was up late last night, and I was watching The Shopping Channel (something about the relentless cheerfullness of the hosts even when shilling the crappiest products known to man helps lull me to sleep), and they were demonstrating this inversion table thing. Those whole thing seemed very...

We can assume that the Planet X brigade will have something to offer. I'm also willing to bet that within the next few days someone will somehow manage to blame Hurricane Isabel on Galileo's demise (yes, I understand that there are some temporal issues with this explanation, but that's never...

Every explanation - in or outside of science - is an attempt to account for certain observations, or states of affairs, which seem to conflict with some other, more established theory, or otherwise defies our expectations about what, given our current understanding, should be the case. Where...

I was talking to someone at lunch today, who presented a question I couldn't answer. His point is that at some level, you need to make assumptions. So religion, science. philosophy are basically the same thing. . . they just have different assumptions. So, say you take the scientific method...