TMR To Phil Plait And All The Other Climate Scientists

It's really simple: 

 TAKE DOWN AL GORE OR

SHUT-THE-FUCK-UP. 

 Sincerely, 

 CMC

 

I Need Donations (But Spreading This Around Will Help)

Cool - about 9 months ago someone on Reddit got the word out about TED - finally:

The TED name is being dragged through the mud in Valencia, Spain, where a TEDx-approved event is promoting pseudoscientific stuff like (and I quote): crystal therapy, Egyptian psychoaromatherapy, healing through the Earth, homeopathy and even "basic mind control".

I'm not really sure how this event got approved by the TED headquarters, but almost every respected scientific journalist in Spain is outraged by it.

Some of the speakers (Google-translated for non-Spanish speakers).

Amma - Mahatma (Great Soul) of Hugs, Lots of Politicians go to Her to Receive Her Blessings.

José Rius - Reiki Master, Master Reconnection, Basic Mind Control, Zen and Crystal Theraphy Specialist.

Aura Küpper - Energetic Healing through Earth, Rebirthing Therapy, Angelic Reiki and author of a book called "Doctors from Heaven".

Adoracion Ferreres - Master in Clinical Psychology and Natural Therapies. Technical Expert in Bio-Energetic and Holistic, Egyptian Psycho-Aromatherapy and Transpersonal Homeotherapy.

The whole event is "women-oriented" and marketed as a female empowerment gig, which to me adds insult to the injury, as if women were incapable to distinguish true science from utter superstitious, anti-scientific bullshit.

Seeing the TED name associated with this freak show in a country where science and education have already been cornered and budget-cut by its own government is extremely sad. TED should react and examine its own standards in order to avoid being ashamed by these hordes of rain-makers and mystic scam artists in the future.

Ask and you will receive - today I found this hysterical screed from Natural News' freakazoid ringleader, Mike Adams:

Allow me to be the first to announce that TED is dead. Why? Because the group that organizes so-called "TED talks" has been thoroughly hijacked by corporate junk science and now openly rejects any talks about GMOs, food as medicine, or even the subject of how food can help prevent behavioral disorders in children. All these areas of discussion are now red-flagged from being presented on any TED stage.

This is openly admitted by TEDx itself in a little-known letter publicly published on December 7, 2012.

In that letter, TED says that people who talk about GMOs are engaged in "pseudoscience." Those who discuss the healing potential of foods are spreading "health hoaxes."

The letter also advises TEDx organizers to, "reject bad science, pseudoscience and health hoaxes," meaning anyone who talks about GMOs, "food as medicine" or similar topics.

And, sure enough, here's the letter from TED, and a list of some of the banned topics - all of which are TMR favorites:

"Healing," including reiki, energy fields, alternative health and placebos, crystals, pyramid power

"Free energy" and perpetual motion machines, alchemy, time travel

The neuroscience of [fill in the blank] — not saying this will all be non-legitimate, but that it’s a field where a lot of goofballs are right now

The fusion of science and spirituality. Be especially careful of anyone trying to prove the validity of their religious beliefs and practices by using science.

That wording, alone, says this was a major "win" for common sense. And that means it was a good day. After all these years, a finger's been put in the dyke, somewhere where it matters:

Amongst the real barbarians - those who've encouraged it and/or let the nonsense go on.

So yeah, right now, you guys can't see me but - whether I need money or not - I'm smiling,...

ADDED:

 

Journalists - do your jobs!

 

Wasting Money On Trying To Be Smart Is Really Stupid

My friends, people are stupid, so you can bet good money, they'll buy anything offered, simply because it's for sale:

"Gluten-free products are expensive, so that will drive shoppers away from buying them once they realize little or no benefits."

"Little or no benefits"? No, that's never stopped idiots:

They've built a whole "alternative" medical industry on that,...

 

NewAge: The Only Belief You Have To Catch In The Act

I haven't read this whole piece yet, but I like that it begins with the NewAge cult's multi-pronged al Qaeda-like structure:

New Age Movement Explained The New Age Movement (NAM) is both a religious and a social movement. In fact, Western culture is currently experiencing a phenomenal, spiritual, ideological, and sociological shift. It is a religious world view that is alien and hostile to Christianity. It’s a multi-focused, multi-faceted synthesis, in varying degrees, of the Far Eastern, mystical religions, mainly Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Western Occultism, adapted to and influenced by Western, materialistic culture. It sometimes appears in secularized forms.

Yep - it's political, and religious, but also "spiritual but not religious". It can be exercise - or a 5,000 year old spiritual practice (yoga). NewAgers gather in churches, or spiritual retreats, or even corporate gatherings. Daytime TV shows are also popular. Environmentalism, feminism, healthcare, science (and pseudoscience) they've got their claws dug into any crevice, or bit of soft flesh, they can find in society.

Tell me what you think before I finish the whole thing,...

  "Thank You!" everybody for the donations!

My "Computer Model" Is More Accurate Than The IPCCs

I haven't made the NewAge correlation, between climate change and psychics, in quite a long time:

"It would appear that the IPCC is running out of answers .  .  . to explain why there is a widening gap between predictions and reality."

Maybe somebody should ask Shirley MacLaine,....

When This Man Is Your Hero I'm Proud To Be A Pariah

He's made millions, spouting sciencey-sounding malarky, and all because they'd eat it up:

“However, instead of completely melting away, the polar icecap is at now at its highest level for this time of year since 2006. 

Satellite photos of the Arctic taken by NASA in August 2012 and August 2013 show a 60 percent increase in the polar ice sheet, more than half the size of Europe, despite “realistic” predictions by climate scientists six years ago that the North Pole would be completely melted by now. Instead of shrinking, the NASA photographs clearly show that the Arctic ice sheet is much larger than it was at the same time last year. 

The thick layer of summer ice, which currently stretches from Canada to Russia, is preventing ships from using the North-West Passage.”

I remember almost being thrown out of someone's house, for trying to calm a woman as she screamed about the polar bears - a result of misinformation, few consider, as the claim it's all so harmless revolves. It's not. These fools think they're just talking but, in ways large and small, society stops working. Lives are put in peril.

Ha! Listen to me. I forgot - this is post-Syria America now:

Nobody has to care about any of that anymore,...

 

"Mark Cuban Clouded The Water For The Other Sharks"

That would be blood, and what all con artists should face,...

A Spoon-Bending Spy, Pay Gap Gaps, China’s German Ghost City, Huma, No French Ice And Pseudoscience

Uri Geller Was A CIA Spy

Gender Pay Gap: 

The familiar line that “women make 77 cents to every man’s dollar” simply isn’t accurate.

China’s German Ghost City

The Huma Unmentionables

Ice Cold Drinks in Paris: 

The Search For Cool Cocktails

This Is What Pseudoscience Looks Like

This Might Be How The Whole "I'm Ghost" Thing Started

It begins like we're into your typical witch or werewolf story:

"Within the Anthroposophical Society, I was a member of the School of Spiritual Science — that is to say, I was included in the special category of Anthroposophists having access to higher occult truths that are withheld from regular members of the Anthroposophical Society. I participated in esoteric lessons, which is to say I participated in the secret cult of the School of Spiritual Science. This cult also held meetings even within the school premises of Steiner Verrières-le-Buisson. 

Today, with hindsight, it is clear to me that what led me to become an active and prominent member of this sectarian organization began with my enrollment in a Waldorf school at the age of nine years. The rest of my course in life was only the logical result of the indoctrination I had been subjected to. 

I. An Insidious Indoctrination 

1. Hiding Anthroposophy in the Subjects Taught   

Based on my experience as a former student, a teacher at my old school, and an Anthroposophist, I would like to describe the subtlety of indoctrination that students in Waldorf schools are subjected to. In fact, its chief characteristic is its nonidentifiable form,..."

Oooh - See the problem?

If only the "chief characteristic" coulda been it's obvious educational abilities and attributes: 

Mighta beena winna for the GZA or the RZA to promote.

As it stands, tonight, I'm gonna go howl hippie anthems at the Moon:

"So close - so close, and yet so faaaar,..."

 

I Can't See Why It's Hard To Find Fraud In Government

"The degree to which nonsense has trickled down to every aspect of this office is astonishing... It's the only place where opinions are counted as equal to data."

- Barrie Cassileth, The Development of the Office of Alternative Medicine in the National Institutes of Health, 1991-1996, p.282.

I Piss On You (If You Won't Fix What's Wrong With This)

Wait, wait, wait - this is bullshit - homeopaths world-wide claim to have already cured this:

“U.S. reports a breakthrough in malaria vaccine”

Malaria was supposedly the very first problem homeopathy cured - and homeopathy is still in our country's pharmacological medicine bag - so why do we need a "new" cure?

Because they're living a lie, that's why.

People wonder how we can get it together, in other areas of American life, when nonsense is legally allowed to exist side-by-side with reality. I'll tell you how to get the ball rolling in the right direction:

Demand a total ban on homeopathy.

It may seem unrelated to race, or anything else, but I think it's key,..

 

Everybody's Lining Up For A Cosmic Awakening But Us

One by one, the countries of Yurp are getting enlightened:

On Sunday, the Interior Minister [Päivi Räsänen] proposed that Finland adopt legislation like that in force in neighbouring Sweden where non-standard, alternative medicine treatments cannot be given to small children or those with serious medical conditions."

Meanwhile, here in the U.S., NewAgers are crowing:

"Alternative Treatments Could See Wide Acceptance Thanks to Obamacare"

You know where this is going:

Hide your kids...

 

Howard Stern: Science Defender (It's All About Rocks)

This is more righteous indignation than I've heard from everywhere - combined.

 

Makes me wonder if Mr. Transcendental Meditation would be willing to really get down?