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.

loved the Homeopathic A&E

Having read Bad Science the other week, I am ashamed to say I didn't know exactly how much nonsense homeopathy was till I read it.

Someone I worked with tried to explain the dilution thing to me and I think my brain imploded.No wonder it made no sense.

"You see, it's more diluted and that makes it stronger" WTF?

We were working in a lab FFS.

Can i play please :)

oh come on Boffin.
did you do it double blind so you didn't know whether you were getting the sugar pills or the silacea and neither did the person who set it up?
are there a lot of you, enough to account for random variation?
if not, why be flummoxed? Placebo effect and/or improvement randomly coinciding with you taking the homeopathic one, surely. Observed correlation in one subject only doesn't create a problem for any scientist.

I've just read Bad Science too, great book and completely convinced me what nonsense homoeopathy is as well.

AIBU to expect guests to cleanse their chakras when entering my home?

Can you advise me how to sort out my smelly green aura?

(Hully, you have wounded me to the core).

LOL
Must set up an intra-family trial!
They are a lot nicer than Rinstead's pastilles, anyway. Sod it.

Where did the molecular clumping argument get to WRT homeopathy?

I couldn't watch the video of the indigo child after the first bit of audience applause, I was a little bit of sick in my mouth.

Can I have a quick friday boast, DS1 (not woo at all, age 10) came up to me and stated that the dettol no touch soap dispensers were stupid because you wash your hands after you touch the soap, I was very proud.

????
no touch soap dispenser??
WTF is that?

You hold your hand underneath and a sensor spurts out some soap/foam onto them.

do you have hundreds of children?

are they cheaper than Rinsteads pastilles?

My mum used to give us vitamin C tablets as placebos for everything - they might work.

sethstarkadder my friends have stopped discussing anything remotely woo around me in case I launch into my double blind trial speech.

Good deduction work little lostinwales!

Urgh, that 'Indigo' child was distressing.

And I'm a primary school teacher.

Lostin - I'm very impressed by your ds - but hope that he doesn't take scientific experimenting to the same levels you did and swallow pieces of Lego in the name of science! Did it ever reappear btw? We never did find out.....

I'd also like to nominate my ds (aged 10) for the anti-woo thread. he decided there was no tooth fairy before he had lost his first tooth, and thinks that any form of religion/non-scientific guff is woo....

Yay! Love this thread!! Haven't read much of it but -- YAY!

Loved Bad Science, felt kind of liberated by being able to just say 'Bollocks' to nearly everything.

Can I sign up please? Mumbo jumbo irritates the hell out of me. Apparently this makes me closed minded, cold hearted, arrogant fool. Very pleased to meet you all.

No, I should leave that anti woo thread in shame, never saw that lego again, bad science, how embarrassing.

Do you think it just dissolved then, Lostin? Better to find something a bit more inert next time. But it did keep me entertained!

I don't think I took the velocity of the lego hitting the water into account when I checked how well it floated. Next time I have food colouring and edible glitter at the ready, plus sweetcorn to see the relative transit between the different density's. Although can we go back to woo now

Dinosaurs are Jesus ponies!

Bad Science is amazing. I have become somewhat evangelical about it and have been boring anyone who'll listen with it, particularly the cosmetic and homeopathy chapters. Boswellox indeed!

I am pretty anti-woo, I am a psychologist so know all about randomised controlled trials and double blinds and such. I must confess to having had reiki though, one of the counsellors at my work practices and did me a couple of sessions for cheap and I have to say that I definitely felt something kind of spinning inside me, twas weird and not altogether pleasant!

Also, I've never seen one but I'm pretty sure I believe in ghosts - although I think they will be explained by science at some point in the future, nothing to do with the afterlife or owt.

Oh Parsnips I don't know where to start on that one, they survived the flood? D'you think they had extra long snorkels or something.

I wish you wouldn't call it 'woo' but I'm in .

No, they were on the ark of course

Bit of a panic then, my mini scientists laughed uproariously at Jesus on his dinosaur pony, only to spoil it all by saying 'dinosouars all died out before the flood didn't they.' What are they doing to his brain in school.

There's a 'God Channel' here which shows a programme aimed at children (will somebody think of the children?) explaining how the Ark is the literal truth. I sat there like this --> , because they have really really convinced themselves.

Apparently tales of dragons prove that dinosaurs still exist... or something.