tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post6355120207403761714..comments2024-02-26T03:25:06.471+00:00Comments on Stephen Law: CELEBRITY WOO EXAMPLES QUICKLY PLEASEStephen Lawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02167317543994731177noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-17457543377881966822012-01-14T06:48:27.955+00:002012-01-14T06:48:27.955+00:00Indeed! I lastly identified this specific website!...Indeed! I lastly identified this specific website! I've been surfing due to this article pertaining to such a long time!!Runescape Goldhttp://www.4rsgold.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-71205530472861900392011-11-08T02:24:20.128+00:002011-11-08T02:24:20.128+00:00... this is what happens when you get famous, drop...... this is what happens when you get famous, drop out of school, and you don't have to think too hard to get by, coupled with the artificial "respect" fame gives you that stops people from questioning or simply call you out on your pablum ...<br /><br />Why, exactly, do we care about what famous people say? Isn't it more important what they *are* saying rather than that they *are* saying something? (It's kind of a shame that Stephen Fry is so famous ... :)Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10613480150660825848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-36407871498863082832011-10-30T04:43:35.875+00:002011-10-30T04:43:35.875+00:00This is a bit late, but there's an interesting...This is a bit late, but there's an interesting article from ABC News titled "Crazy Celebrity Health Remedies." Included are Uma Thurman's gem therapy, Nick Nolte's ozone treatment, Suzanne Somers' mistletoe injections, Sarah Ferguson's bio-energy treatments, and more:<br /><br />http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=6596366&page=1Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-90437245555107927062011-10-29T09:44:13.772+00:002011-10-29T09:44:13.772+00:00Too late for the intended use I suspect but I cou...Too late for the intended use I suspect but I couldn't help noticing this in the FT yesterday.<br /><a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/34bf248c-fef2-11e0-9b2f-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=rss" rel="nofollow"><br />"Paranormal expert set to become Tory MEP"</a> (You might need to log in to see this or search via Google) - the guy in question apparently taught <a href="http://intermetu.com/curriculum/paranormal/" rel="nofollow">"Master’s Degree in Metaphysics, Focus in Paranormal Studies”.</a><br /><br /><br />It states "In addition to Mr Matthews’ course, students were obliged to study “psychic protection” and could take courses in “ghost hunting” and “advanced ghost hunting”.<br /><br />OK the guy is rather obscure outside the fantasy world of EU politics but even so..wombatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-45103513622346155112011-10-24T22:35:07.256+00:002011-10-24T22:35:07.256+00:00How about Kate Middleton, Bill Clinton, David Beck...How about Kate Middleton, Bill Clinton, David Beckham and Leonardo DiCaprio, all spotted sporting the Power Balance bracelet? The Daily Mail did quite a good hatchet job on this hologram based woo in January this year, following legwork by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.powerbalance.com/faqs" rel="nofollow">http://www.powerbalance.com/faqs</a> currently makes the claim that: <i>The thin polyester film hologram is programmed through a proprietary process, which is designed to mimic Eastern philosophies that have been around for hundreds of years.</i> and has a list of 32 professional athletes who are still prepared to endorse it. The most famous one I could recognise is F1 driver Rubens Barrichello.Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08240399669150057121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-29384925794868063692011-10-24T08:35:36.017+00:002011-10-24T08:35:36.017+00:00A huge thank you to you all!!!A huge thank you to you all!!!Stephen Lawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02167317543994731177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-11033578041930980302011-10-24T06:56:28.354+00:002011-10-24T06:56:28.354+00:00Dr Oz, the teledoctorwoomerchant extraordinaire.
...Dr Oz, the teledoctorwoomerchant extraordinaire.<br /><br />http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2011/03/when_faith_healing_isnt_enough_woo_for_d.phpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-80605228867244168722011-10-24T02:17:21.995+00:002011-10-24T02:17:21.995+00:00This guy is not famous but how about a first perso...This guy is not famous but how about a first person account of a demonic possession from an analytic philosopher? http://randalrauser.com/2011/02/awake-in-japan-a-first-person-account-of-demonic-oppression/<br /><br />He's also interested in ghosts: http://randalrauser.com/2011/07/on-my-preliminary-research-into-ghosts/The Atheist Missionaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07191035196328725888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-55112971168279533472011-10-24T02:10:01.819+00:002011-10-24T02:10:01.819+00:00Celebrities who claim to have seen ghosts include ...Celebrities who claim to have seen ghosts include Nicholas Cage, Keanu Reeves, Neve Campbell, Matthew McConaughey, Tim Robbins, Hugh Grant, Dan Akyroyd, Sting, Jean Claude Van Damme, Paul McCartney and others: <br /><br />Source: http://paranormal.about.com/cs/trueghoststories/a/aa022304_3.htm<br /><br />Not surprising given this 2005 Gallup poll: http://www.gallup.com/poll/17275/onethird-americans-believe-dearly-may-departed.aspxThe Atheist Missionaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07191035196328725888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-67944236496525774742011-10-24T00:04:50.275+00:002011-10-24T00:04:50.275+00:00Celebrity Obama "birthers": Donald Trump...Celebrity Obama "birthers": Donald Trump, Alan Keyes, and now <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/10/23/350916/rick-perry-goes-birther-after-meeting-with-trump-i-dont-know-if-obamas-birth-certificate-is-real/" rel="nofollow">Rick Perry</a>. Maybe not the kind of celebrity—or the kind of woo—that you were looking for, though.Miles Rindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03733605717776262840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-33769666228427807252011-10-23T23:29:45.258+00:002011-10-23T23:29:45.258+00:00Bill Maher
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mah...Bill Maher<br /><br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/vaccination-a-conversatio_b_358578.htmldaz365https://www.blogger.com/profile/04602465055527419574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-77825073014211343792011-10-23T23:21:25.008+00:002011-10-23T23:21:25.008+00:00It may not be quite what you want, but these are a...It may not be quite what you want, but these are always fun videos anyway (the Tom-Cruise-endorses- scientology video):<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBZ_uAbxS0" rel="nofollow">Cruise on Scientology</a>.<br /><br />Also, Tom Cruise comes out against psychiatry:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBZ_uAbxS0" rel="nofollow">Cruise on the history of psychiatry</a>.<br /><br />It is some kind of example of what goes wrong when you buy in to woo.Michael Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14834928837774294668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-12140911052616779232011-10-23T22:13:23.099+00:002011-10-23T22:13:23.099+00:00Er, Prince Charles being the biggest supporter of ...Er, Prince Charles being the biggest supporter of homeopathy everL<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_charles#Alternative_medicine<br /><br />Unfortunately so is Caroline Lucas, our only Green MP (I like her otherwise): "She is a supporter of homeopathy, having signed an early day motion in support of its continued funding on the National Health Service sponsored by Conservative MP David Tredinnick."Jonathan MS Pearcehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14281228447185474180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-54690876386212383612011-10-23T20:34:28.998+00:002011-10-23T20:34:28.998+00:00Turns out David Floopin'Bellamy's a massiv...Turns out David Floopin'Bellamy's a massive homeopathy supporter (and some sort of climate change skeptic):<br /><br />http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2011/08/a-letter-to-david-bellamy.htmlAdamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03152119437847042234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-56226718384296362052011-10-23T18:25:41.500+00:002011-10-23T18:25:41.500+00:00Does prince Charles count? He has been a tireless ...Does prince Charles count? He has been a tireless campaigner for medical woo.Scotenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-58621140572925600242011-10-23T17:50:08.842+00:002011-10-23T17:50:08.842+00:00Suzanne Somers:
http://drerika.typepad.com/notepa...Suzanne Somers:<br /><br />http://drerika.typepad.com/notepad/2006/10/letter_to_suzan.html<br /><br />http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/suzanne-somers-knockout-spreading-dangerous-misinformation-about-cancer-part-1/The Atheist Missionaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07191035196328725888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-91599697617829035972011-10-23T17:45:13.121+00:002011-10-23T17:45:13.121+00:00http://thelistcafe.com/pseudo-science-and-crackpot...http://thelistcafe.com/pseudo-science-and-crackpot-quacks-10-celebrity-science-shockersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-40647856230602493922011-10-23T17:42:28.471+00:002011-10-23T17:42:28.471+00:00Oprah Winfrey -
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence...Oprah Winfrey -<br /><br />http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2010/11/for_shame_oprah_winfrey_shills_for_faith.phpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-13992581146178718432011-10-23T17:34:11.825+00:002011-10-23T17:34:11.825+00:00There are quite a few celebrity scientologists. Se...There are quite a few celebrity scientologists. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ScientologistsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-19629416351668871142011-10-23T17:33:51.911+00:002011-10-23T17:33:51.911+00:00Of course, @exrelayman, but Scientology is in the ...Of course, @exrelayman, but Scientology is in the general category of religion, which opens up a whole can of worms. I assumed Dr Law wants to steer well clear of that. Think, for example, of all sorts of Catholic miracle woo.Fergus Gallagherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10196026854090418432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-43946888319509984172011-10-23T17:17:17.288+00:002011-10-23T17:17:17.288+00:00Can this be? No one yet mentions Tom Cruise and Sc...Can this be? No one yet mentions Tom Cruise and Scientology?Exrelaymannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-23606013449688643642011-10-23T16:20:16.168+00:002011-10-23T16:20:16.168+00:00David Tredinnick, MP, for astrology and homeopathy...David Tredinnick, MP, for astrology and homeopathy.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Tredinnick_(politician)#Support_for_complementary_and_alternative_medicineFergus Gallagherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10196026854090418432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-57387535448079159522011-10-23T16:06:07.451+00:002011-10-23T16:06:07.451+00:00A few spring to mind:
Nadia Sawalha always endors...A few spring to mind:<br /><br />Nadia Sawalha always endorses homeopathy:<br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1282474/EastEnders-actress-Nadia-Sawalhas-eczema-drove-desperate-measures--decided-aside-prejudices-try-homeopathy.html<br /><br />Gwyneth Paltrow is reliably into nonsense like cupping too:<br />http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2011/09/08/contagion_vs_goop_did_gwyneth_paltrow_sell_out_alternative_medic.html<br /><br />Jodie Kidd fronted an extraordinary BBC 3 woo-fest covering all manner of alternative modalities:<br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qmvyr<br /><br />MarshMarshhttp://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-90507805097452506842011-10-23T16:01:07.544+00:002011-10-23T16:01:07.544+00:00Antivaxxers like Jim Carrey (via the less well kno...Antivaxxers like Jim Carrey (via the less well known in the UK Jenny McCarthy)<br /><br />(I've contacted a few podcasters who specialise in this sort of stuff with the link to here.)Fergus Gallagherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10196026854090418432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1905686568472747305.post-26267093021447449372011-10-23T15:27:04.571+00:002011-10-23T15:27:04.571+00:00How about Steve Jobs. From the NY Times article: &...How about Steve Jobs. From the NY Times article: "His early decision to put off surgery and rely instead on fruit juices, acupuncture, herbal remedies and other treatments — some of which he found on the Internet — infuriated and distressed his family, friends and physicians, the book says."<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/technology/book-offers-new-details-of-jobs-cancer-fight.html?_r=2&hpJohn Griffithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02170970083381813525noreply@blogger.com