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What 'skeptics' really believe...

Matty1973

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Mentioned in the Swine flu thread but surely worth a thread of it's own.

What 'skeptics' really believe about vaccines, medicine, consciousness and the universe. Courtesy of Natural News.


• Skeptics believe that ALL vaccines are safe and effective (even if they've never been tested), that ALL people should be vaccinated, even against their will, and that there is NO LIMIT to the number of vaccines a person can be safely given.

• Skeptics believe that fluoride chemicals derived from the scrubbers of coal-fired power plants are really good for human health.

• Skeptics believe that many six-month-old infants need antidepressant drugs.

• Skeptics believe that pregnancy is a disease and childbirth is a medical crisis.

The list goes on and on. (more if you register - I haven't)

At least we skeptics can now be clear on what we all really believe!


Some of the readers comments at the end are quite funny:

"What a load of misinformed nonsense. You people need to lay off the herbal remedies."
 
I saw it on pharyngula. It was amazing.

I thought I was a skeptic but apparently not.
 
There is a 'Dana' replying, and bashing the skeptic. Wonder who that could be? ;)

Hans
 
Natural News said:
Skeptics believe that water has no role in human health other than basic hydration. Water is inert, they say, and the water your toilet is identical to water from a natural spring (assuming the chemical composition is the same, anyway).
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Obviously the *real* difference between toilet water and spring water is the associated spiritual energies, not the chemical composition (and whatever microorganisms may be living in each). It's not just fecal matter that you drop into the bowl, you release negative waste energies every time you go to the bathroom.
 
He's posted a follow up article after the 'major waves across the net' caused by the first article.

Apparently 'It is absolutely true that the most ardent skeptics believe they themselves have no consciousness, no soul, no free will and not even a mind.'

He then goes on about how 'water is magical' and claims that Richard Feynman 'had he lived longer, he may have very well discovered the principles behind homeopathy and water memory.'
 
For me my brief viewing of the page was summed up by the cartoons at the bottom, the mamigram machine with the 'Detect Cancer/Cause Cancer' buttons absolutely disgusts me. Massive straw men against the scary skeptics is pretty much par for the course but that cartoon just brought home to me the way that these people want to scare people away from potentially life saving medical care.
 
Just can't match wits that level of stupidity. He does all the damage himself. If the man had any sense of self-preservation those articles would disappear from the site. I spent the time to read the articles and give my response, but damn, the stupid burns.
 
Matty1973 said:
Mentioned in the Swine flu thread but surely worth a thread of it's own.

What 'skeptics' really believe about vaccines, medicine, consciousness and the universe. Courtesy of Natural News.


• Skeptics believe that ALL vaccines are safe and effective (even if they've never been tested), that ALL people should be vaccinated, even against their will, and that there is NO LIMIT to the number of vaccines a person can be safely given.

• Skeptics believe that fluoride chemicals derived from the scrubbers of coal-fired power plants are really good for human health.

• Skeptics believe that many six-month-old infants need antidepressant drugs.

• Skeptics believe that pregnancy is a disease and childbirth is a medical crisis.

The list goes on and on. (more if you register - I haven't)
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I wonder if skeptics believe that strawmen are fire-proof.
 
shawmutt said:
Just can't match wits that level of stupidity. He does all the damage himself. If the man had any sense of self-preservation those articles would disappear from the site. I spent the time to read the articles and give my response, but damn, the stupid burns.
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Yeah, I have to agree that it does the 'natural' movement a disservice when a whole lot of stupid is presented as support for the idea, and when the followers seem unrelentingly gullible by failing to question whether any of it is true. Does the author really want to leave the impression that the proponents of 'natural' and their followers are stupid and gullible?

Linda
 
My favorite is how he says that skeptics believe consciousness doesn't exist. Where does he get that stuff?
 
CurtC said:
My favorite is how he says that skeptics believe consciousness doesn't exist. Where does he get that stuff?
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At the Mind, Brain, and Consciousness seminar, sponsored by the Skeptic Society in Los Angeles a few years back, one of the talks was "Consciousness is nothing but a word".

And I must say that consciousness as defined by, say, Iacchus, absolutely does not exist.
 
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