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  1. Mendel

    Claim: The Indian/Chinese systems of nadis/meridians have been proved by science because of hyaluronic acid and piezoelectricity

    ...all of this will turn out to be competely hypothetical and betray a failure to understand the cited effect except in a cargo-cult sort of way (woo). I mean, writing "two mechanisms" and then listing three kinda makes me doubt they can even count. So, basically, bluffing with big words, is...
  2. J

    Claim: Fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field (geomagnetic storms) causes a myriad of different health problems.

    I was just going to look for a similar map to that, knowing the geomagnetic field strength varies over space and time. (The whole field of paleomagnetism relies on dating rocks and heated human artifacts by the magnetic signatures they encode of subtle variations in the strength and direction of...
  3. John J.

    Claim: Fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field (geomagnetic storms) causes a myriad of different health problems.

    ...anchored to, or encapsulated in, non-ferrous structures/ deposits of proportionately much higher mass. Kirschvink, Kobayashi-Kirschvink and Woodford, 1992 may have been the first to detect magnetite in the brain, see "Magnetite biomineralization in the human brain", Proceedings of the...
  4. P

    Claim: NASA tried to stop Spielberg's 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

    ...make sense why they didn't want to go through with it if it wasn't portrayed like that, I mean J Allen Hynek was an advisor and he was into his woo (evidence suggests even before joining the UFO team) and I bet he was at odds with the military for trying to explain the phenomena in a more...
  5. banditsat12oclock

    Explained: The Navy UFO Videos

    ...sceptical of claims of the existence of supposed forces and beings and realms which don't fit into that construct. To them, therefore, aliens are woo - nothing but 21st-century versions of 19th-century fairies, medieval dragons, and ancient gods. Others dispute that (in my reading of it)...
  6. NorCal Dave

    Claim: Bushfires have not been affected by climate change, and are affected by impeded hazard reduction

    ...people living in a forested area with 2 main and 2 secondary roads in and out. This type of area is called the Wildland Urban Interface or WUI (woo-ee) here in California and comes with certain building and land clearing requirements, that we had to follow when we built our house in...
  7. Nick Ramos

    Welcome Thread - New Members Post Here

    ...that permeate conspiracy theories. 9/11 "truthers", chemtrails, illuminati crap, antivaxxers, holocaust denialists, climate change denialists, woo woo "medicine"... you say it, I've probably laughed hard at them already. My motto is "castigat ridendo mores": Corrects customs laughing. I'm...
  8. Agent K

    TFTRH #24: Nick Pope – Area 51, UFOs and UFOlogy

    That's right, and you can say the same thing about ghosts and perpetual motion machines and New Age woo-woo and doomsday cults. If any of it is right, the implications would be far-reaching, but that's a very big if. This can make things easier for debunkers, because instead of debunking...
  9. Mauro

    Claim: The Indian/Chinese systems of nadis/meridians have been proved by science because of hyaluronic acid and piezoelectricity

    I have looked around but I did not find any debunk of the specific claims from specialists in the field. It looks to me the claims are at best woo and at worst not even wrong, but I'm no specialist in anatomy nor physiology so I cannot go further with confidence. That said: - All of the human...
  10. deirdre

    Claim: Ronald Reagan warned the world of aliens/alien invasion

    None of that sounds like warning. maybe wishful thinking. or paranoia. The vast majority of "evidence" conspiracy theorists or woo believers use doesn't qualify as evidence. Hence the analogy of Rabbit Hole. Shultz was talking about the Lake Geneva summit and mentioned the two leaders...
  11. P

    Dan Aykroyd: Making something out of nothing

    Dan Aykroyd is probably one of the most high-profile celebrities who's open about his belief in woo and bunk, he has come with many outlandish claims over the years and has been quoted by many believers as a credible source (which is a fallacious use of the argument from authority, seems that...
  12. Oystein

    Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry and AE911Truth File Lawsuit Against FBI

    @deirdre - the article you quote has Sean Adl-Tabatabai and YouNewsWire at the bottom (is that called the "byline"?) - known sources of woo. Not the original Courthouse News article, that had another author (female, name hidden somewhere above).
  13. deirdre

    Is it less rational to believe in several conspiracy theories than only one?

    ...opinion just about conspiracy theorists. The same could be said for people who believe in multiple cryptozoology animals or beings. Or new age woo believers. Or people that believe eating lemons will cure your cancer and other weird health woo ideas. Or people who are Democrats ;) who believe...
  14. D

    My Chat With Luis Elizondo

    ...has been blob-squatches, despite the proliferation of cell phones and trail cams? That’s why the bigfoot community has increasingly gotten into “woo” explanations. I believe Mr. Elizondo said in your interview that he “wasn’t getting paid for this.” But he presumably was getting paid by...
  15. DeBean

    Welcome Thread - New Members Post Here

    Greetings from Western Australia, About 50% of my workmates are conspiracists on just about every topic you great bunch of people cover here so thank you for all the ammunition I need to fight woo in the workplace.
  16. A

    Welcome Thread - New Members Post Here

    ...I'm a new member here after occasional lurking over time. Came here from FSTDT and Rational Wiki. I like reading about conspiracy theories and woo, and watching people debunk them. So I figured that joining here would fit in my interests. I've seen some new health woo popping up I might...
  17. Inti

    Confirmed Tesla quote; "Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments"

    ...read, Tesla was engaged in an unsuccessful dispute with Einstein amongst others, an deeply at sea in the new physics of tbe 20th century. Later, he has become the darling of promotors of all kind of woo, to the extent of being tne kind of wizard figure in Christopher Nolan's film "The Prestige"
  18. igoddard

    2004 USS Nimitz Tic Tac UFO FLIR footage (FLIR1)

    ...fame to assist what I believe is an obvious effort to dupe and bamboozle people on a false promise that their "investment" will bring about anti-gravity technology. Surely this is one of or the biggest scam(s) in the annals of woo-woo. I'd like to believe it was true, but my BS meter has...
  19. deirdre

    Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry and AE911Truth File Lawsuit Against FBI

    Yes, here is an archive of the original article. Oh i see, thanks. According to wiki (with source links) they renamed "You News Wire" to "News PUnch" (the name in my link). NewsPunch is a Los Angeles-based fake news website that frequently spreads conspiracy theories and political...
  20. Nth

    Confirmed Tesla quote; "Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments"

    As something of a side note here, it's interesting how almost a cult has developed around Tesla, particularly in how some individuals that I have personally interacted with seem to believe that the man was invariably right about everything he commented on. The quote from @Inti is more or less a...
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