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Will Reiki healers help Haiti?

Thursday, 21 January 2010 16:34

Now would seem to be an excellent time for all those energy healers who profess to practice Reiki, curing people at a distance by transmitting healing energy, to get together and provide some primary medical care for the people suffering in Haiti. This would be one of the very best ways to show by practical evidence that they have something to offer.

On the other hand, apart from wringing their hands in sympathy, I bet they will contribute absolutely nothing.

One estimate claims that there are over 1,000,000 people worldwide who claim to be Reiki Masters and another 4 million who claim to be practitioners. If there is even one ounce of genuine therapeutic healing value in anything they claim, then surely they should be able to demonstrate some real evidence in Haiti.

I doubt they'll be queuing up to help.

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Last Updated on Thursday, 21 January 2010 16:41

Quackademia rules

Wednesday, 20 January 2010 10:23

David Colquhoun is well-known for his campaigning against the introduction of academic Woo into UK universities, challenging the content of homeopathy courses and exposing the ludicrous content of their examinations.

In the US, the illustrious blogger Orac has been doing the same for a number of years and has compiled a list of academic institutions offering quackademic courses. He lists over forty such institutions here in his Academic Woo Aggregator.

It is quite extraordinary that so much mystical nonsense is taught under the guise of academic authority and therefore understandable when so many people go along with these ideas in the complete absence of any evidence. Getting accepted into an academic institution gives these wacky ideas credibility amongst the general public. After all, anyone coming out of a university with a degree is assumed to have studied a subject which has some academic credibility.

Now that is no longer the case. As Orac has shown, academic institutions will promote anything as long as there's money in it.

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 20 January 2010 10:26

Leaving the Land of Woo now in press

Sunday, 04 October 2009 18:58

We're just waiting for the final book proof to arrive so we can OK it, and then we can get it listed on Amazon and make it available.

Please get in touch if you want to review it for your publication, blog, or ezine.

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Last Updated on Wednesday, 07 October 2009 10:17

Now available on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com

Saturday, 17 October 2009 11:57

Leaving the Land of Woo is now available.

Get the book in the UK here and here in the US.

So now we're into new year's resolutions and what an excellent idea to leave the land of Woo. The new year is an excellent time to reassess, to think about the influences on our decisions, to question those assumptions we've become accustomed to. And Woo is one of those pervasive influences. Ever visited a chiropractor but don't know what theories they based their practice on? Ever tried a homeopathic preparation on the grounds that it might work? Ever prayed, wondering why you thought someone was listening? That doubt that keeps cropping up, is your rational mind trying to get you to think about your decisions.

Give yourself and friends the gift of clear thinking today! You owe it to yourself!

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Last Updated on Monday, 11 January 2010 12:58

If you ever thought Woo was harmless...

Tuesday, 22 September 2009 15:20

Many people see Woo as just an entertaining diversion, pretty harmless overall, and not really worth bothering about.

Unfortunately, the consequences can be quite devastating. Here's an example of what happened when a patient decided to trust in a so-called cancer treatment called the Gerson Protocol, based on using diet to detox the body. It was claimed, this would allow the body to recover all on its own.

But as I've stressed in the book, just because we'd like the world to be like that, we can't expect it to be. We can't just change our physiology and biochemistry to suit a fanciful theory. Unfortunately, this patient accepted the ideas behind the Gerson Protocol.

Read the story here.

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Last Updated on Sunday, 04 October 2009 19:11

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