Tag: Dean Radin

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Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Physics Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking

The unreality of reiki and distance healing

Reiki: Yes, they really claim this is what goes on in a reiki session, with energy from the "Universal Source" being channeled into the patient, magic-like, kind of like the Force. The difference is that in the Star Wars fictional universe the Force works.

Well, it’s 2017. In a mere 17 days, unreality will become reality, as the most unlikely and terrifying President in my lifetime is sworn in. Consequently, as I was thinking about what I’d like to write about for my first post of the new year, only one thing came to mind. Only one thing that […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Entertainment/culture Medicine Politics Popular culture Quackery

The Huffington Post delves deeper into the woo

Since its very inception, the Huffington Post has been a hotbed of antivaccine lunacy. Shortly after that, antivaccine woo-meisters like David Kirby, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Kimg Stagliano, and, apparently, one of the editors (Special Projects Editor Rachel Sklar) were joined by all-purpose woo-meisters like Deepak Chopra. True, for a brief period of time there […]