Simple Simon…

If anyone hasn’t read my post on the twenty-first floor about Simon Jenkins then I advise you to. Thats the longer less ranty version. This isn’t.

Annual Detox woo

So it’s New Years day and if you were one of those who were celebrating last night it’s likely your thoughts are turning to that piece of perenial “woo” the January detox.

Last year the press did seem to want to go against the grain and criticise detox treatments but this year… Well it could well be business as usual and “lifestyle” sections and “commentary” will be telling us to clean our colons, purify our diet and get rid of those dastardley toxins.

What’s so special about science?

In the 1950′s there was a man named Solomon Asch. A man named Solomon Asch who ran an experiment. This experiment is now considered a classic of social psychology and indeed psychology itself.

Better the disease than the vaccine?

This coming Saturday there will be an anti swine-flu vaccine march organised by the Vaccine awareness network there will also be a swine flu “scam” conference in Kirkcaldy in the evening. There are a couple of things about this that distress me greatly about this turn of events.

One Mainframe to rule them all.

This blog refers to a discussion in the comments on this previous post and refers to an invitation to view this production on YouTube related to the wethepeoplewillnotbechipped.com campaign. The movement frames itself thusly:

This movement is based on the irrefutable fact, that we believe in mankind’s inalienable human rights that are absolute and can not be debased, nor perverted. Human life can not be degraded to a 16 digit RFID chip number embedded under you skin under any circumstance. By uniting on this common ground, we can send a strong message to the IBM funded Verichip that we the people will not be chipped!

Brian Gerrish: Child stealing by the state

Ok back to the grindstone, the albatross around me neck that is my commitment to blogging about the AV3 conference. Brian Gerish claims the following:

Uncovering a conspiracy between public authorities, Social Services, the Police, courts and Government to unlawfully take children from their parents, and pass them into a frightening and often abusive Social Services system. This system is so powerful that local councillors cannot challenge their own Social Services departments about their actions.

Have they got truth for you? Um… probably not…

I suppose that this marks this the start of a small series of blogs about the mainstream view, or at the least the evidence supported view at the least, then again if I’m being honest it might just be an excuse to take a lighthearted look at what a bunch of conspiracy theorists and woo-sters think.

Specifically a group of woo-sters appearing at AV3: the alternative view “have they got truth for you!”, the speakers will be appearing over weekend of the 13th of November (spooky, at least for paraskevidekatriaphobics anyway)

Are stem cells the latest Autism woo?

There is apparently a new “treatment” for ASD avaliable from the XCell centre in Dussledorf Germany – Stem Cell therapy.

Dusseldorf, Germany (PRWEB) October 1, 2009 — The XCell-Center has released interim results from 10 autism patients treated with autologous bone marrow stem cells. Overall, more than 70% improved following treatment. Patients reported improvements in cognition, behavior, language, socialization, coordination, motor skills and awareness. These results support the premise that patients with Autism can be treated safely and effectively with autologous stem cell therapy.