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Category Archives: New Age
12.10.2012
How to Throw a Great Apocalypse Party
As everyone knows, the world will end in just a few weeks, on December 21st, 2012. We don’t know how, or what time it will take place, but through some combination of pole shift, magnetic field collapse, zombie apocalypse, asteroid/rogue / read more…
Tagged in 2012 / 2012 apocalypse / end of the world / party
12.5.2012
Mayan Insanity! Check that, Non-Mayan insanity!
As December 12, 2012 approaches, I thought it would be interesting to review the Mayan apocalyptic fantasy. Skeptoid effectively broke down this overblown fable in episode #93 Apocalypse 2012. I will not review the highlights, if you haven’t heard it I / read more…
Posted in Conspiracy Theories / Events / New Age / Paranormal / Pseudoscience / Uncategorized
12.4.2012
Whitley Strieber’s Visitors
The recent announcement that Bigfoot DNA has been sequenced has prompted Whitley Strieber to reflect on the differences between Sasquatch and man: “Sasquatch is here to be,” Strieber has explained. “Man is here to do.” Aside from clarifying a potentially / read more…
Posted in New Age / Paranormal / Pseudoscience / Uncategorized
12.4.2012
Mystical Road Rainbows
No matter how mundane and explicable they are, rainbows spark a sense of magic and wonder in many of us. For others, they represent evidence of conspiracy or chemical contamination. A recent article about rainbows inspired a sense of awe / read more…
Posted in Conspiracy Theories / New Age / Science
11.20.2012
Chinese ghost scam preying on the superstitious
A belief in ghosts or spirits is common and mostly harmless, mostly. An interesting article regarding a Chinese ghost scam occurring in San Francisco showed up in my inbox the other day. The scam, and a partial resolution, illustrates the / read more…
Posted in New Age / Paranormal
11.12.2012
The Prettiest Strangulation Device for Your Baby.
It may be a cliché to refer to Robert Koch (1843-1910) as the father of bacteriology but it isn’t wide of the mark. The meticulously documented work of this Nobel Laureate demonstrates the breadth of his knowledge, ceaseless curiosity and / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Health / New Age / Pseudoscience / Uncategorized
Tagged in alternative medicine / pseudoscience
8.13.2012
Kinesio Tape: The Evidence
This evening I was browsing through some of the many articles online about Kinesio Tape, the alternative medicine sports product that has seen so much exposure in the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games due, according to the articles, to the / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Events / Health / New Age / Pseudoscience
Tagged in acupuncture / chiropractic / kinesio tape
1.14.2012
A Naturopath@Google
Last year I was privileged to give one of my talks at Google’s headquarters, called an Authors@Google talk. Google is a very interesting environment, intellectually speaking. There genuinely are a lot of really smart people there. There are also an / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / New Age / Pseudoscience
Tagged in craniosacral therapy / detoxification / Homeopathy / naturopathy
8.23.2011
Complimentary Medicine Popular with Healthcare Workers
A new study reveals that nearly three quarters of U.S. healthcare workers utilize the services of complementary and alternative medical (CAM) practitioners. The most common reason given was to alleviate anxiety. As reported in the journal Health Services Research by / read more…
Posted in Alternative Medicine / Health / New Age / Pseudoscience
Tagged in alternative medicine / CAM
7.6.2011
Did Psychics Help To Find Caylee Anthony’s Body?
I was living in Orlando at the time young Caylee Anthony went missing, only about a dozen miles from where the body was discovered by the side of the road less than half a mile from her home. Hundreds of / read more…
Tagged in Anthony / Dominic Casey / dowsing / Ginette Matacia Lucas / Orlando / psychic
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