The Biggest Insult: Republicans Can't Beat These Guys

New Age spiritualism has co-opted some of the language of physics, including the language of quantum mechanics, in its quest to make ancient metaphysics sound like respectable science. The New Age preaches enhancing your vital energy, tapping into the subtle energy of the universe, or manipulating your biofield so that you can be happy, fulfilled, successful, and lovable, and so life can be meaningful, significant, and endless. The New Age promises you the power to heal the sick and create reality according to your will, as if you were a god.

Study: Democrats more likely to think astrology is scientific, less likely to know Earth revolves around the sun

That Dog Don't Hunt (Until The Cows Come Home To Me)

 

 Rarely have I disagreed with someone, I'm on the same side with, more - this person actually claims homeopathy has no religious component - but at least he got this much right:

Giving patients water is probably a lot less harmful than many folk remedies that fly under the scientific radar, but homeopathy has two notable distinctions. One is that people spend a lot of money on it—the US market was already close to half a billion dollars in 1999. The second is that homeopaths have demanded that their field be treated as a science, performing clinical studies, proposing mechanisms, and even convincing Elsevier to publish Homeopathy, a peer-reviewed journal. 

The articles in this special edition of Homeopathy display a number of consistent themes: internal inconsistency, a rejection of scientific standards and methods, and established science being applied to inappropriate situations (for example, quantum entanglement between people is proposed). In cases where mechanisms are suggested, they frequently violate our basic understanding of the natural world. Tying things together are unsupported assertions and logical leaps that have no place in science. The experience of reading the journal was like seeing a science publication reflected through Alice's looking-glass.

 

And seeing the world through that journal - it didn't arrive from another planet - is even worse,...

 

Find A Quiet Spot And Ponder You're An Ass

"Beliefs such as creationism or astrology aren't immune to science, they are merely wrong. Take the tale of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Indian yogi (and physics graduate) who taught transcendental meditation and won a global following after the Beatles joined his Academy of Meditation in India. Maharishi claimed that transcendental meditation gave practitioners access to the 'quantum field of cosmic consciousness'. This, he said, was identical to SU(5), the model physicists were then investigating in their search for a grand unified theory. Sadly for cosmic consciousness, real experiments later falsified SU(5)."

-- Amanda Gefter, joining us in laughing at all the meditators who - for fucking decades - have been spreading this goofy charlatan's nonsense (Hello, Paul McCartney!) unaware their own stupidity is one of the many Signs Of The Times.

A Bunch Of Broke NewAgers: Hoisted On Their Own Retard (By Public Enemy Number Dumb)

"Attendees paid to listen to a former preacher’s son and a junior college dropout who has fashioned a successful business on the promise that he can help people build financial wealth as well as strengthen their spiritual and physical well-being.

Throw in dollops of quantum physics, Shamanism, Buddhism, Kabbalah, tantric sex and lessons drawn from his personal experiences and the movies (even “Star Wars”), and the audience was enthralled. And though he’s not in the ranks of Anthony Robbins and Phil McGraw (Dr. Phil), his appearances on “Oprah” and “Larry King Live,” and in “The Secret,” Rhonda Byrnes’s documentary and book that have become a New Age phenomenon, have won him a following. His own book, “Harmonic Wealth,” appeared on the New York Times best-seller list for two weeks last spring.

Mr. LaRosa, of Marketdata, said typical self-improvement customers are middle-aged women with an average household income of $88,000.

There were undoubtedly plenty of people who fit that profile in Jersey City. But there were also many who were feeling the pinch of the economy."

-- Ray Rivera, on what unemployed suckers on the east coast are paying $1,297 to hear "motivational speaker and self-help guru" James Arthur Ray peddle - that's the con man, looking much-too-obviously like a con man, below - in The New York Times.

The "Harmonic Convergence" was successful, right? Why not you? (Because it was a huge failure, that's why,...you stupid, stupid idiots.)