This video could cause WWIII in off-topic forum

Made it 9.57 minutes. IN that time he made numerous incorrect statements. For my sanities sake, I had to stop it.

LMAO. That is the worst attempt at disinformation I've ever seen. I wonder if he ever LOOKED for research done on much of what he claims is "pseudo-science". He seems to have missed a library worth. Ghosts may be a bit obscure -- but natural remedies often have more research backing the benefits than any pharmaceutical can lay claim to. I'm not talking BS research, either.

He seems to be under the impression that unless a piece of evidence is considered "worthy" of his own biased approval, it doesn't qualify. How is it that a speech on critical thinking can be based on so much logical fallacy?

I wonder how much he makes for this trash? Good news is that anyone who is stupid enough to listen to him probably won't survive long. Good way to clean out the gene pool.

Well, I didn't say it was a GOOD video. LOL

Exactly Sal. Fish oil is "pseudo-science"? It is recommended by both medical Doctors and homeopathic practitioners.

oi vey - fire up the barbie.

not watching, i don't want to think critical.

... and you forgot the mayan calendar on the no-no list

lol.

lol. world war 3.1 - charcoal broil this guy that made the video.

And at least ancient treatments have been proven not to kill people.

Can modern pharmaceuticals say the same?

I also think it's quite ironic that things that are called "conspiracy theories" during their own time are often later revealed to have been the truth.

Yeah sal, you are certainly right. I have heard some PRETTY dumb things. If you DARE speak against them, they laugh. If you ask WHY x and y, they CAN'T explain it! Now THAT is taking something for granted. Critical thinking is basically exploring reasonable criticisms of things.

WOW, GINKO doesn't work? PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE!!!!! SOMEONE tell my blood? Call up the doctors, etc... And I TRIED the 48 hour diet. It works. You DO lose weight, and most of it DOES seem to be fat. Obviously, some may be water. The idea is effectively drinking a relatively low carb high vitamin drink and keeping hydrated. FAT IS the highest calorie replacement for the low calorie diet. And they DID find that muscle wastng is generally LIMITED over 2 day spans. 2 days is about the limit. And doesn't steam help to release mucous?

I saw a film about a chinese organic farmer. People LOVE his ugly food! They pay a PREMIUM! His competitors love it TOO! They AGREE it is BEST! But THEIR food looks better, takes less effort, and grows faster, so they are growing their OWN!

Psuedo science is when something is claimed to be a science and isn't. MOST science today was NOT supported when it started. It was NEVER a pseudo science. Some BELIEFS weren't accepted, or called a science, and later fit a pattern people found reliable and THAT became SCIENCE!

WHY EXPERIMENT? He claimed such a need shows it is a pseudo science! After all, if you learn something that wasn't known, it wasn't accepted and THUS, according to his definition, PSEUDO SCIENCE! In reality, a new discovery may even TWEAK existing science!

Energy is a measurement? The FDA approves ONLY drugs and devices claiming to heal. detect, treat. MANY valid products DON'T have FDA approval! It is too expensive, and not needed. Lead was once considered SAFE! So electricity isn't an energy I mean HOW COULD IT BE? It is MEASURED by volts and amps or watts. There is no reason to measure a measurement.

Some people are merely idiots, and use their mistaken beliefs to gauge their opinion. A person may say computers are a myth because no computer has ever presented an original thought. Maybe he believes that ginko is supposed to make you smarter, and is thus FAKE. NO, ginko thins the blood, and can help open blood vessels. If your thinking is sub par due to a lack of oxygen or nutrition, ginko CAN improve things! I have heard some real AMAZINGLY wrong ideas in such things.

As for dreaming of a person dying? Well, I once saw a friend using SHEARS and thought he might die of a heart attack. He DID, that very DAY! Well, I DID know such things could happen, DID know it was a lot of exertion, and asked him NOT to. OK, maybe coincidence, but EXPECTED! I later was afraid that my mother might die in my home while I was away. It was perfectly logical. She probably WOULD have if I didn't try to change things. Otherwise, NOPE! My first good friend apparently died, and I hadn't thought of her. I was SHOCKED to find she died.

As for dragons? Well, some may argue that DINOSAURS were dragons. After all, outside of myth and a few popular drawings, did they really give specifics. There was once a myth of a man with red hair, thought to be a MYTH! They were called man of the forest. NOW they are simply known by that, in malay, orangutan. And what of the ridiculous description of one thought to be a myth, that is now called the giant panda. I guess most don't want to see regular pandas, so we just call the giants pandas. I remember one year when I heard of like 6 MYTHS they proved that year! Thinks like antelopes with weird horns, etc... Really, people have only really investigated like 30% of the planet. between the places that are too hot, too high, too low, too cold, too isolated, etc.... They have cryptozoology! It IS unreasonable to think all animals have been catagorized in science. OH, SOMEONE must have seen them! SOMEONE must have reported it, RIGHT? Well, NOPE! BUT, even if they had, I have heard of DOZENS that were reported, thought a myth, and are NOW accepted science. Who knows, maybe bigfoot is an american version of the orangutan! HECK, it is smart, big, has big feet, red hair, and can be noisy! It kind of fits!

Steve

Hi Kay,

Nice to meet you. I don't think I've ever written to you directly before.

My thinking and communication skills are absolutely horrible. What I mean to say, and what I do say are always to very different things. (I'm learning about clarity as I write this)

What I wanted to say was, ancient treatments that are still being practiced today are (more than likely) proven not to kill people. But by no means am I saying just because a treatment is thousands of years old, is it better than today's medicine.

Indeed this is true

You know, I'll take that back! There WERE a bunch of jerks that once got FDA approval for FISH OIL, like a couple years ago! Of course, that would create enemies, and competitors they wouldn't want, so they claimed to have a special refining process, even though one possible side effect is "FISH BURPS"! Of course, it is PRESCRIPTION ONLY, and probably EXPENSIVE. I wish I could remember the brand name, but they DO advertise it on TV.

THERE, the SCAM is FDA approved! Want to pay more and have more trouble? Get the FDA approved one! But Aspirin, Vitamins, Minerals aren't FDA approved. Protein isn't. stop eating all non FDA approved items, and you DIE! Basically, outside of things that contain items KNOWN to be harmful, are artificial and sold as drugs, and things claiming to diagnose, treat, or cure a disease, or things some IDIOT wanted to BRAG about being so, NOTHING goes for FDA approval! When bananas, guavas, angus meat, etc... hit the shelf, they NEVER went to the FDA! Creatine and protien didn't either! EFAs, vitamins, and minerals don't.

Did you know some drug advertisements STRONGLY imply, in their advertsing, that the FDA found them efective and even more effective than the compettion EVEN though it is ILLEGAL to do so!? FDA approval means ONLY that it is relatively safe, or that the benefits CAN outweigh the risks! Chemotherapy would NORMALLY NOT be allowed, but given that it CAN add years to a persons life, or be used with surgery to effectively get rid of the cancer, the benefits outweigh the risks, and it is approved for that. Something like placebos can be approved because they are relatively safe. By approving them, they can be treeated 100% like DRUGS, even though they AREN'T!

Steve

LOL

"Here Be Hypocrites"

~M~

BTW David - this guy seems to have gone so far into unreason and disinformation rhetoric that I don't think you're gonna see that war even from the most staunch skeptics in this forum. LOL.

It's always a great idea to think outside the box, ofcourse when it comes to politics that can be a huge problem

Thom - that's what I was scared of when trying to save Ricky. It had gone so far I didn't know if I could help him. Had it been earlier on, it wouldn't have even fazed me. But that tumor was huge and he had some lumps on his tail which spelled metastasis. Metastisis didn't scare me on it's own - if a treatment is killing one tumor it can kill other cells too. But I had no way of knowing if any organs were far enough destroyed to not be able to bring them back. You can only do so much damage to an organ before it is ruined permanently. It took hella time to kill Ricky's tumor.

One of the things I attribute to his survival is giving him enough love and excitement that it gave him something to hang on to and something to live for. God he was bored when I got there. I knew when I saw the look on his face the first time I parked by that lake in the mountains - sights he'd never seen or explored before, that we were gonna lick that crap out of that disease.

One of those raving conspiracy theorists actually suggests that the research done by pharmaceutical companies is mainly to gain profits!

What's funny is that even mainstream medicine is beginning to embrace many formerly alternative modalities, including acupuncture and meditation. And fish oil is hardly controversial at all. This guy is at least 20 years behind the times in his not so critical thinking.

Disclaimer: I watched less than 5 minutes of the video -didn't feel it was worth any more than that.