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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
 Posted - 05/31/2012 : 21:18:18
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If you know this face, please post the name below.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2012 : 01:18:16 [Permalink]
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| Hint #1: Simon Singh has criticized this person for promoting "nonsense." |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2012 : 07:57:13 [Permalink]
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| Hint #2: This person, who asserts he is often stoned himself, insists that understanding quantum physics requires "stoned thinking," because its theories mean that thoughts can make anything happen. |
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
1888 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2012 : 09:03:39 [Permalink]
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| Andrew Weil |
Life is good
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. -Anonymous |
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
1383 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2012 : 10:06:13 [Permalink]
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| It looks like Craig Charles of Red Dwarf fame. |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2012 : 10:53:53 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by moakley
Andrew Weil |
Correct, moakley, congrats! That's Andrew Weil indeed, the very legally licensed MD who has probably done as much to sucessfully promote dangerous "Integrative Medicine" quackery as anyone claiming to be in the "health" profession.
Who knows how many uncounted bodies have piled up as patients take his wishing-can-heal-you advice?
Weil's is a corporate success story. He sells supplements, books, and woo-laden advice DVDs. His supplement company was warned by the FDA against making its making implications of a value of its rostrums against disease. As is de rigeur for quacks and woos of all persuasions, Weil misstates quantum theory to confuse people about the need for scientific, evidence-based medicine. On evidence-based medicine and quantum theory, Weil argues: | According to Weil, quantum physics in effect validates his "stoned thinking," because it demonstrates that ultimate reality is in the mind of the observer, and thoughts can make anything happen. Thus Weil can believe in miraculous cures even while claiming to be rational and scientific, because he thinks that quantum theory supports his views. |
He has many critics, from scientific physicians to skeptics.Barry L. Beyerstein, PhD, Simon Fraser University, criticizes aspects of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), asserting that "As a major New Age industry, CAM shares the movement's magical world-view. On advocating emotional criteria for truth over criteria based on empirical data and logic, New Age medical gurus such as Andrew Weil and Deepak Chopra have convinced many that 'anything goes,'" later stating that "By denigrating science, these detractors have enlarged the potential following for magical and pseudoscientific health product." Simon Singh echoes this criticism going as far as saying that while Weil promotes some good things like exercise and less smoking that "much of his advice is nonsense".
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Regarding his journalism for Time Magazine (see publications, below), The Center for Science in the Public Interest pointed out that in one Time magazine column by Weil, he touts the benefits of fish oil supplements. CSPI stated, "The column was sparked by a recent report in the Journal of the American Medical Association showing that fish oil supplements did not reduce the risk of serious abnormal heart rhythms. The article failed to disclose that Dr. Weil sells his own brand of fish oil supplements on his website." |
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
| Edited by - HalfMooner on 06/01/2012 10:55:33 |
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