Lynne McTaggart and world peace – something to worry about!!!

Yesterday, I received this email from my favourite source of misleading information.

Here it is:  

Dear Friend,   
We wanted to tell you about an unprecedented event that you won’t want to miss: the world’s largest Peace Intention Experiment that’s ever been conducted, webcast FREE on GAIA TV from September 30-October 5. It’s being hosted […]

Read the rest here: Lynne McTaggart and world peace – something to worry about!!!

“Forest bathing”: an alternative therapy you probably never heard of

Shinrin-yoku means “taking in the forest atmosphere” or “forest bathing.” It was developed in Japan during the 1980s and has, according to its proponents,

become a cornerstone of preventive health care and healing in Japanese medicine. Researchers primarily in Japan and South Korea have established a robust body of scientific literature on the health benefits of spending […]

Read the rest here: “Forest bathing”: an alternative therapy you probably never heard of

Universal Medicine small town woes & GLOBAL gossip July 2017 | Universal Medicine SCAM Exposed

Unfortunately Tenterfield, a small town near the border of NSW and Queensland, will have to deal with the Girl to Woman Festival on August 27 and all the Universal Medicine/Esoteric Women’s Health cult parasites that come with it.

A reader found this poster in a local shop and the shopkeeper was happy for her to take it down. The shopkeeper had never heard of UM, or Esoteric Breast Massage and like most people, she didn’t want a bar of it...

Universal Medicine small town woes & GLOBAL gossip July 2017 | Universal Medicine SCAM Exposed

The Wonderful World of Tong Ren Therapy - Plague of Mice

Tong Ren therapy, or the art of hitting dolls with hammers to magically cure all sorts of Stuff because of the Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things. This started out as a bit of light relief for a hot and muggy day enlivened by a splitting ophthalmic headache. I should have stuck with the headache.

I’ve covered this lunatic therapy before. For those who missed the previous episode and can’t be arsed to go back and read it, here’s a fresh presentation of this most egregious fuckwittery..

Read the full post: The Wonderful World of Tong Ren Therapy - Plague of Mice

Deepak Chopra enters my ‘ALT MED HALL OF FAME’ | Edzard Ernst

Yes, I know, lately I have been neglecting my ‘ALT MED HALL OF FAME’. This is entirely my fault; there are so many candidates waiting to be admitted that, I have been hesitant as to who should be next. Today, I came across an article about Deepak Chopra and his latest book, Super Genes. It tells “how lifestyle shifts […]

Read on: Deepak Chopra enters my ‘ALT MED HALL OF FAME’

Rose Rosetree, The New Strong and the Old Soft Soap | Plague of Mice

I was happily browsing the ebooks for something to instruct, enlighten and hopefully also amuse me after all the ventilator-driven faeces generated by some 17 million turkeys voting for Christmas last week. Proudly presented as one of the latest publications (it(s dated 27 June 2016) was this alluring œuvre by one Rose Rosetree:

The New Strong

Stop Fixing Yourself-And Actually Accelerate Your Personal Growth! (Rules & Tools for Thriving in the “Age of Awakening”) 

Author: Rose Rosetree 

Publisher: Women’s Intuition Worldwide, LLC 

Collections : Energy HEALING Skills for the Age of Awakening 

Categories : Spirituality & esotericism/ Healing/ Energy(Chi Kung, Reiki, Polarity), Personal development / Self-accomplishment / Inspiration & personal growth 

Ye-e-es. First off, I don’t believe that’s her real name. Too twee and too fitted to her market. It’s her own publishing company and only her books appear in the catalogue (which we will come to later), so “women’s” is misleading, as is …
Continue reading →

Can we go back and change the past? asks Lynne McTaggart

The post Can we go back and change the past? asks Lynne McTaggart by Anarchic Teapot first appeared on Plague of Mice.

The Egregious Lynne, Saint and Martyr, is at it again. There are times when you wonder if the woman isn’t knowingly pushing bullshit for profit, à la Food Babe, then she brainfarts out something as dumbfuck Stoopid as this:

Can we go back and change the past?
One of the most basic assumptions about intention is that it operates according to a generally accepted sense of cause and effect: if A causes B, then A must have happened first. This assumption reflects one of our deepest beliefs, that time is a one-way, forward-moving arrow. What we do today cannot affect what happened yesterday. 

However, a sizeable body of the scientific evidence about intention violates these basic assumptions about causation. Research has demonstrated clear instances of time-reversed effects, where effect precedes cause. Indeed, some of the largest effects occur when intention is sent out of strict time sequence… 

There’s loads more … Continue reading →

Can we go back and change the past?

Can we go back and change the past? asks Lynne McTaggart in her latest blog post. And there we have a perfect example of Betteridge’s law of headlines.  The answer is, of course: no. One of the most basic assumptions about intention is that it operates according to a generally accepted sense of cause and … Continue reading Can we go back and change the past? →

Proof of prayer | WWDDTYDTY

Lynne McTaggart runs the “healing intention experiment”, an exercise in wishful thinking designed to show that “wishing makes it so”.

The problem with this, of course, is that it is the same as intercessory prayer, and that has been tested and found not to work.

No wonder WDDTY were delighted when a meta-analysis by “scientists at Northampton university” (funded, it must be said, by the Confederation of Healing Organisations, an umbrella body for wishful thinkers) found a small but significant – or, to use WDDTY’s phrase, “pretty solid” proof – positive effect...

Read on: Proof of prayer | WWDDTYDTY

Distant healing: two new systematic reviews and meta-analyses | Edzard Ernst

Distant healing is one of the most bizarre yet popular forms of alternative medicine. Healers claim they can transmit ‘healing energy’ towards patients to enable them to heal themselves. There have been many trials testing the effectiveness of the method, and the general consensus amongst critical thinkers is that all variations of ‘energy healing’ rely entirely on a placebo response. A recent and widely publicised paper seems to challenge this view...

Read on: Distant healing: two new systematic reviews and meta-analyses

Forgotten In Time: The Ancient Solfeggio Frequencies

I’ve had this one saved up for a while and it doesn’t seem to want to go away, so ladies and gentlemen (and others), please be upstanding for the outstanding fuckwittery that is Forgotten In Time: The Ancient Solfeggio Frequencies! In case you don’t speak Music, this absolute Godsend of a webshite owned by noted loon Henrik Palmgren claims it’s possible to Cure By Choons via the various modes used in Gregorian church music. Yes, it’s Lost Ancient Secret Knowledge Rediscovered by Our Founder time! Here we go:

What Are The Ancient Solfeggio Frequencies?
These original sound frequencies were apparently used in Ancient Gregorian Chants, such as the great hymn to St. John the Baptist, along with others that church authorities say were lost centuries ago.

The chants were originally handed down orally from generation to generation. Of course some had been lost by the time monks finally started … Continue reading →

The post Forgotten In Time: The Ancient Solfeggio Frequencies by Anarchic Teapot first appeared on Plague of Mice .

Religion: The latest scientific exploration. Or not. - WWDDTYDTY

If there’s one thing that doesn’t seem to trouble Lynne McTaggart, it’s doubt. When her world-view is contradicted by science, then it’s science that’s wrong. MMR-autism link refuted? Not in WDDTY it’s not. Urotherapy is derided nonsense? Not in WDDTY. Intercessory prayer? Let’s have a talk about that...

Religion: The latest scientific exploration. Or not. - WWDDTYDTY

Robin Williams - Connecting In The Field? - WWDDTYDTY

It’s hard to know where to begin with this one, other than with the timeless advice that when the answer to the rhetorical question you pose in your headline is “no”, don’t write the article.

The Blessed McTaggart loves to present herself as a groundbreaking scientist and some kind of medical savant. Her book The Field is categorised in the quantum physics section of the catalogues (presumably Deepak Chopra’s books get the same; they are identically ignorant about the concept).

So you’d have thought that by now McTaggart would have mastered one of the simplest and most fundamental elements of science: coincidence...

Read on: Robin Williams - Connecting In The Field? - WWDDTYDTY