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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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What quacky, woo, pseudoscience, nonsense practice do you think has the lowest percentage of honest, true-believer practitioners?
I think the percentage of honest, famous faith healers is very close to zero, while the not-famous ones are much more likely to believe their own bullshit.
I think the percentage of honest Kiai Masters is very high, because I think they and their students create a mutually reinforcing delusion cycle, which can only be broken by outside interference (and even then, they will make up excuses).
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 06/06/2017 : 20:48:00 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
What quacky, woo, pseudoscience, nonsense practice do you think has the lowest percentage of honest, true-believer practitioners?
I think the percentage of honest, famous faith healers is very close to zero, while the not-famous ones are much more likely to believe their own bullshit.
I think the percentage of honest Kiai Masters is very high, because I think they and their students create a mutually reinforcing delusion cycle, which can only be broken by outside interference (and even then, they will make up excuses).
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Right. I also think famous psychics have a very low percentage true believer practitioners, and at the same time I think there are tons of people who claim psychic ability who are absolutely convinced that they really are psychic.
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Norway
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Posted - 06/07/2017 : 00:50:33 [Permalink]
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| fame and profit massively increase probability it's a scam |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 06/07/2017 : 09:20:08 [Permalink]
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Coincidentally, Cracked just today published 5 People Ironically Ruined By Their Very Stupid Beliefs, which includes:- Jim Fixx, who had a heart attack while running to prevent heart attacks;
- Linda Hazzard, a fasting advocate who died during a fast to cure her own illness;
- Derek Kieper, a seatbelt protestor who died because he didn't wear a seatbelt;
- Wesley Snipes, a tax protestor (and "actor") who went to jail for not paying taxes;
- Christine Maggiore, an HIV/AIDS denialist who died from AIDS;
- Hulda Clark, the author of cancer cure books who died of cancer, and
- Jack Coe, a faith healer who got polio after utterly failing to cure a three-year-old's polio.
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On fire for Christ
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Norway
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Posted - 06/07/2017 : 23:50:05 [Permalink]
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| Wesley Snipes did nothing wrong. |
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Dave W.
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On fire for Christ
SFN Regular
Norway
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Posted - 06/08/2017 : 17:38:58 [Permalink]
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| I blame the director and editor for that flop. Snipes performance was terrific as always. |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 06/14/2017 : 06:48:52 [Permalink]
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Looks like we had our share of Darwin Awards in that list...
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