"Alternative Flight" at Science Based Medicine

[Blue Mountain]

Mark Crislip has written a piece over at the Science Based Medicine blog where he makes a case for establishing a secondary airline industry based on the principles of "Alternative Flight":

The underlying philosophy of AA is simple. People need to be free to choose their mode of flight based on alternative concepts of gravity and alternative airplane design.

Current Western reductionist concepts of gravity revolve around European white men and their understanding of the universe through the scientific ‘method’ of experimentation. The current concept of gravity from Einstein and his Theory of Relativity, whereby ‘mass’ causes ‘space-time’ to ‘warp’ and this is what Science calls gravity. This theory (and remember it is just a theory) is only one narrow way of defining gravity, one way of knowing gravity. There are other ways of knowing and an equal number of ways to understand gravity and flight. Alternative aviation operates using holistic, environmentally friendly, passenger centric methodologies the allow the passenger to be involved with all aspects of their airline flight. By actively applying the concepts of complementary and alternative medicine to the airline industry the successful revolution that has occurred in health care can now be seen in air transportation.

It's a very entertaining read, and it shows why the proponents of complementary and alternative medicine are talking though their hats.

 

[~enigma~]

"Alternative Flight"

Does that mean for a vacation you have to pick an alternative destination?

 

[Lensman]

Or does it mean your arms get tired?

 

[~enigma~]

Or does it mean your arms get tired?

Wouldn't that be discriminatory against parapalegics? Should I call a lawyer??

 

[mhaze]

Mark Crislip has written a piece over at the Science Based Medicine blog where he makes a case for establishing a secondary airline industry based on the principles of "Alternative Flight":



It's a very entertaining read, and it shows why the proponents of complementary and alternative medicine are talking though their hats.

It's gotta be a joke, right?

There are alternative concepts for countering gravity and flight. A google search will yield many sites describing both modern and ancient concepts of gravity and methods to interact organically and harmoniously with gravity, rather than trying to defeat or overcome it. Some are simple. An example is the technique of Arthur Dent who discovered one could fly if one simply threw themselves at the ground and missed. Some of our planes will be powered with the Dent method.
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[Gord_in_Toronto]

It's gotta be a joke, right?

There are alternative concepts for countering gravity and flight. A google search will yield many sites describing both modern and ancient concepts of gravity and methods to interact organically and harmoniously with gravity, rather than trying to defeat or overcome it. Some are simple. An example is the technique of Arthur Dent who discovered one could fly if one simply threw themselves at the ground and missed. Some of our planes will be powered with the Dent method.
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Not at all, the Aeropatihc mainstream aeronautical engineers refuse to look at the Vedic texts that describe non-areopathic modalities of flight. The Greek story of Daedalus proves that the ancients could fly. As do drawings in the Egyptian pyramids. This knowledge has been suppressed by short sighted engineering societies. Airbus, Boing, Bombardier and other aircraft manufacturers refuse to spend a penny on investigating anything that is outside the materialistic Western White "Science". But don't worry, there is an underground resurgence of true holistic researchers who are flapping away on the fringes and will soar into the sky any day soon. Progress is being made. Transcendental Meditation workers at Real Accredited Universities have achieve flight times of milliseconds.

Onward on our bouncing bums to the stars.

 

[BenBurch]

Of course its a joke, people!

Mark Crislip does a couple of really interesting podcasts, one where he trashes medical quackery and another is a serious literature review on infectious diseases. He is here japing Alternative and Complimentary Medicine by analogy with flight.

 

[RichardR]

Mark Crislip does a couple of really interesting podcasts, one where he trashes medical quackery and another is a serious literature review on infectious diseases. He is here japing Alternative and Complimentary Medicine by analogy with flight.

I assumed Mark Crislip was really Steven Novella. Was I wrong? This article did remind me of Novella's Alternative Engineering from about 1998.

 

[BenBurch]

I assumed Mark Crislip was really Steven Novella. Was I wrong? This article did remind me of Novella's Alternative Engineering from about 1998.

Nope! Totally different people.