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Yes it’s… Fitzroy’s Crap
Theories of the Mind, Body and Spirit |
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Vegan
values (and vegetative thinking) |
There
are some pretty good arguments for becoming a vegetarian: Firstly, you will escape the risk of food
poisoning from eating inadequately cooked meat, though unless a vegan, you
still risk contracting salmonella… |
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The
blind acceptance of one's fate and the fate of others that is central to
Karmic thinking, enables personal and social
injustice to thrive unchallenged. It encourages guilt, acquiescence and bad
housing for those underfoot whilst fostering complacency and indifference in
the 'deserving'. |
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Uri Geller: Psychokineticist or
bender of truths? |
According
to psychologist Jacob Empson, the much-loved stage
entertainer Uri Geller is an ‘obvious charlatan’ [ 1
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Supernature:
Alimentary my dear Watson? |
A critique of Lyall
Watson’s New Age blockbuster |
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Q:
What do a limerick, a catchy tune, science, a new way of making pots and
religious belief have in common? |
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The
Luscher Colour Test -
Miracle tool or obscurantist hokum? |
Fads, by definition, come and go.
Fads in ‘pop psychology’ map a less certain trajectory. A new theory, typically the unreplicated work of a… |
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Palmistry:
A handy little earner?
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Palmistry
– like most ‘ancient arts’ – is, in fact, a pseudoscience, and
pseudoscience of the mind, body and spirit divide into three broad strands… |
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Casteneda: Diablero or diabolical fibber? |
Should the collected ‘teachings’ of a
fictional character be treated as a bona fide crap theory? The answer
is ‘yes’ if those ideas have been accepted as objective fact by an
international readership of millions, and the fiction was never… |
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Straight lines were invented by the Ancients
- possibly by |
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Fire-walking
is a age-old feat carried out by the old-aged feet of fakirs, or fakers… |
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Breatharianism: the cult that’s quietly out to lunch? |
The
taxonomy of Earth’s carbon-based life-forms recognises three broad classes of
organism: the animal, the plant and, now, it would seem, the breatharian… |
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The mismeasure of mind? |
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An
aura, not to be confused with a Nora (which is a kind of female
person) or a bloody Nora! (a north country oath) is an invisible,
coloured haze said to … |
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Sharpening
the mind… |
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Arguments for the existence of God |
It
was never the business of these writings to cause anybody insult or injury
for their religious views, nor to tackle the question of whether there is a
God up there to be religious about in the first place. |
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Fallacies of the Phallus: which fool said ‘size
matters’? |
[PARENTAL
WARNING: Contains explicit content. So don’t let your mum and dad read this!] |
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Can
animals talk? |
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Do
people actually read this stuff? |
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Are
you gay but nobody’s told you yet? |
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'A nerd guaranteed or your donation returned ' |
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For
a trait that is, according to hereditarians 80%
inherited, it is surprising how much knowledge one must acquire to
succeed at one of these tests. |
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