The anti woo thread.

[LetThereBeRock]

Can all those who don't believe in homeopathy,ghosts,talking to the dead,reading minds etc,please check in here?

There must be a few of us.

I feel as though I've logged onto allthingswoo.com rather than Mumsnet.com at the moment,and I'm not referring to this particuarly forum,but chat and AIBU?.

And if anyone says anything about how we should be openminded,I'm afraid I'll have to beat you to death with a a stick,one cut from an ash tree by the light of the first Summer moon of course.

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I am almost tempted ...

tricki-woo therapy

now that's funny

and clever

sorry

i am so boring aren't I

No, I'm hanging on your every word now!

Appletrees, I'm glad you've stopped calling people twats

You see, it was banter and hyperbole. Sometimes you over-state a case, send them up, ridicule etc to make a serious point. Certainly I do. I'm not smug in real life, quite the opposite. I am fairly meek, friendly and uncritical.

It drives me bonkers to hear some of my friends, otherwise intelligent, worldly women, who will swallow any old shit some 'therapist' has told them because it sounds good. I just want to shout "THINK CRITICALLY". As we've discussed - LOTS of things can make you feel better and they don't need to be encased in woo - pets, fresh air, a hug, a good night out with friends, a massage, sex, a good night's sleep, love, a laugh. Why can't people accept that?

Sure they can spend money on what they like, but with increasing debt and many living beyond their means, it's not always a case of people with too much time and money finding something that relaxes them.

I get women's magazines from time to time and the guff I read about toxins, energies etc etc makes me angry. It's such utter shit, and yet it is swallowed uncritically by 'journalists' with apparently little thought.

So yesm it's good to poke fun. It doesn't mean that one is cruel or smug, just frustrated.

Well that killed it.

Don't worry Undutchable. It will come back in another life.

It'll probably think it was a "classic" in a previous life... Not just any old ordinary thread.

It's not dead. It's just gone off for a spot of astral travelling... it will be back.

Do we need a medium? Or perhaps a dream catcher...

I need to resurrect this to add my support...

I've tried lots of woo in my time and always wondered why it didn't work, when others were jumping to their feet at Billy Graham conventions, or extolling the virtues of homeopathy.

I'm not a scientist, but have worked for a scientific industry, and understand the importance of a 'fair trial' etc.

Having just read Bad Science again recently I feel that I want to be an 'anti-woo' evangelist and jump up and down shouting 'can't you SEE how ridiculous this all is.... WHY are you wasting time and money on it...!'

I need to say this to my various friends:

• one of whom travelled 000s of miles across the world to have her blood replaced in an untested, unknown procedure in a prvate clinic in California
• to the mother of one of DSs classmates who has set herself up as a nutrition therapist and tells DS about the importance of 'cutting energy into vegetables' and who tries to give him 'rescue remedy' when he's anxious

and to the friend who has endured so much, and is now spending over £250 a month on a 'distance healing edutherapy' programme for her family - something which involves bioresonance from a computer, and can't be seen/ measured or proven .

There is a need for ant-wooism to protect vulnerable people.

thank you for this thread.....

I believe in most things actually (am quite gullible/woo) but I do have an acquaintance who is forever peddling oils at me that supposedly cure everything in the known world. Ugh. $50 for a teeny bottle of "pure" peppermint oil for my headache...or, you know, I could just take Excedrin Migraine.