If I Got A Donation Every Time I Was Right I'd Be Rich

Well, I guess it's true - if you live long enough, you see everything. Including all your NewAge predictions coming true! For instance, TMR's old friends in the Reiki cult are finally getting their due from Slate, in a Brian Palmer article that suggests:

   Let’s Get Quackery Out of Cancer Care

Reiki and reflexology have no place in hospitals.

Great idea!

Of course, TMR was saying it seven years ago, when that position was considered "crazy". (What does that make my critics now?) And, that whole time - just like with Republicans, now, on race - I had to withstand the slings and arrows of those with no feeling for reality. It's rough.

So why'd it take so long for "mainstream" Slate to catch on? They've got an article on another of my pet peeves - Yoga - that explains it:

  Why haven’t you already heard about all of these anti-yoga studies? They have no constituency, and therefore don’t interest the media much. When a journal article showing that yoga improves quality of life in breast cancer patients came out earlier this month, hundreds of stories trumpeted the results in the mainstream media. Yet it’s difficult to find any mention of the review articles discussed above that question the efficacy of yogic practice as a health care tool. Few people wanted to read a skeptical take on therapeutic prayer in the 1990s, and there aren’t many people today who will click on stories about how yoga won’t solve their health problems (except for you, of course). The negative studies never make it beyond medical journals.

So there's my beef - just like with politics - so far ahead of the curve, no one can see me. (I covered therapeutic touch as well, back-in-the-day, so there.) There's "no constituency" for far-seeing truth. The media want to print hype, and then, whatever happens,...happens.

Salon has a new column on measles returning because of anti-vaxxers, that features a photo of Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carey. TMR gave you several posts ON Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carey.

It never ends (Don't forget I told you supplements were crap, too.) I usually say I'm about 5 years ahead of most people on the NewAge subjects I'm interested in but, looking at these dates, I'm at least seven or eight years ahead. Not too shabby. Now I want to test it. Anybody heard anything out of Arianna Huffington lately?

According to my calculations, she's about due for her close-up,...