Archive for June, 2009

Scientology is a religion. Really.

Posted by admin in clams, religious nuttery on June 2nd, 2009

Not been a good week for the clams.

First, Wikipedia locked out Scientology IP addresses, and they’re up in court for fraud in France.

But! I have an assertion for you: Scientology is a religion.

There, I said it. Think about it though: something made up by a bloke, that scams money off people, intimidates them if they try to leave and is based on a ludicrous premise. Heck, a court in the UK says we’re even allowed to call it a cult.

Sounds like a religion to me.

So fine, let’s put it on an equal footing with other sky fairy stories. Worried about tax breaks? Easy, take the breaks away from the others and level the playing field. OK, so milking a few Hollywood nutjobs for millions isn’t going to put them in the Vatican league just yet but there’s plenty of time.

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Oprah gets thorough kicking from Newsweek

Posted by admin in oprah oddness, stupid medicine on June 2nd, 2009

Back to laughing at Oprah. Newsweek thoroughly takes her apart. Well worth a read. Hormones, vaccines and much much quackery in an impressively researched article.

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Greens in bonkers health policy shock

Posted by admin in mentalenvironmentalism, stupid medicine on June 2nd, 2009

I didn’t think this one was especially cockbucket-worthy so I just posted it as a link in my facebook where it EXPLODED. The meat of it is that the Greens want to put alternative medicine on an equal footing with normal medicine in the NHS and find “other methods” for evaluating alternative medicine.

It’s a shame that an organisation that’s attempting to make the world better should be so anti-science. The very science that’s given them the quality of life that enables their mission.

They also have a bonkers attitude to stem cell research:

We would work for an immediate international ban on all cloning and genetic manipulation of embryos, whether for research, therapeutic or reproductive purposes.

Twats.

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