Sentences with phrase «reichian quackery»

What I find incredible about Thorp's example is not only that maximized his understanding and beat the market, but that he avoided the quackery and hubris that can so often bedevil people who have ventured so far from the average.

Signing the measure, Governor Brown repeated the view of the psychiatric establishment and medical groups, saying, «This bill bans nonscientific «therapies» that have driven young people to depression and suicide,» adding that the practices «will now be relegated to the dustbin of quackery.»

If the church claims that their problems are caused by invisible demons and send a man with zero medical training to treat them, they're doing a huge disservice that borders on medical quackery.

Some such centers have gone independent, and a few are in or near the quackery line, simply exploiting the interest but neither meeting the standards of competence nor relating themselves appropriately to the church in an administrative sense.

We have had cures for Cancer for 60 years, strangely, they are «debunked» by the medical establishment as quackery so they can poison each cancer patient with over priced pharmaceuticals.

The educator who tries to dominate or enjoy his pupils «stifles the growth of his blessing,» and it is the same with the doctor and the psychotherapist: «As soon as the helper is touched by the desire, in however subtle a form, to dominate or to enjoy his patient, or to treat the latter's wish to be dominated or enjoyed by him as other than a wrong condition needing to be cured, the danger of falsification arises, beside which all quackery appears peripheral.»

Oh and Jerry... your «earned Ph.D. from an accredited institution» is clearly not in the sciences... LOL All those thousands of scientists who you claim believe in your young earth quackery?

Thus it came not only to mean a concern for a person's psycho - social (as well as physical) well - being, but it came also to include some practices which remain untested and which strike some as quackery.

The ironic thing about this statement is that it could also be applied to the quackery that is religion.

A charlatan (also called swindler or mountebank) is a person practicing quackery or some similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, fame or other advantages via some form of pretense or deception.

We are at the era of Charlatanism, Quackery & Delusion... Pure Religions are a good thing but Religious one's might be misguided to astray beyond the truth by swindlers into becoming as dark as it reflects; - Say, «O People of the Scripture, do not exceed limits in your religion beyond the truth and do not follow the inclinations of a people who had gone astray before and misled many and have strayed from the soundness of the way.»

In a world where Reichian quackery rules, we do not debate the limits of modesty for the simple reason that the very concept of modesty itself is illegitimate, a fundamentally oppressive notion.

@Huebert I would like to dismiss racist science as quackery too, but is it really?

Franklin Graham, the CHARLATAN, is portraying himself as an expert on Islamic law — Sharia law The problem is that people that are exposed to this quackery — really believe what he says.

Have you read any particular articles, books, or sites that proved this to be quackery?

He wrote in Learned Quackery Exposed:

To be perfectly blunt, the «other side» of this issue is nothing more than a collection of old myths and deliberately deceptive research that's utterly undeserving of recognition (except perhaps in the context of a discussion about modern - day quackery or the like).

I also agree that overlaying the hallmarks of a cult onto Gaskin's mission of quackery is a rather chillingly accurate comparison.

To me this is really no different than NCB advocates touting garlic up the vagina, the Brewer diet, Webster chiropractic, cohosh and evening primrose supplements, and any other manner of quackery — the only difference is in degree of woo.

She is leaving one special interest group (Lamaze International) to work for a natural childbirth lobbying group (The Childbirth Connection), and I find it fitting that she uses her departure to firmly situate natural childbirth as quackery.

Naturopathic quackery kills people who earnestly believe that a healthy diet is a better option for a cancer cure than surgery or medication.

As the science around prevention develops, this important bill will ensure our federal agencies can crack down on athletic equipment manufacturers that peddle quackery.

«Beyond Intelligence is laced with common - sense (and occasionally counter-intuitive) implications for parental practice, in which the need to deeply listen to, and understand, the child takes precedence over quick - fix commercial products or educational quackery.

I truly feel sorry for any woman unfortunate enough to fall for your quackery.

But it should be unsurprising that he decided to focus on quackery, given that his own performance showed a total disregard for facts or reason.

As the results of such de facto quackery becomes evident at great cost to the Nigerian economy and its people, you may of course expect some to conjure up alternative academic theories to explain why a recession is not such a bad thing!

Similar mathematical quackery was used in the run - up to this year's general election.

Science in an Age of Delusions: some examples from scientific fraud, quackery, religion and university politics.

The Oyo State government in its bid to sanitise private health facilities and curb medical quackery across the 33 local government areas in the state said...

He called on the union to embrace quality control mechanism as to rid the profession of quackery, extortion and unwholesome practices that has eroded it's nobility, and dignity in a way.

«It could have been «quackery,»» he says, «but they didn't have a position in that.»

The extensive collection, which includes such creative quackery as «magic Oriental oils» or «miraculous snake root,» has been culled from all over the country, but it could well have originated here, since New Orleans in the early 19th century was a veritable cesspool of sickness.

P: At 300, you're getting into antiaging quackery.

But disturbingly, a good two thirds of the book's contents are relevant today, including Gardner's discussions of homeopathy, naturopathy, osteopathy, iridiagnosis (reading the iris of the eye to deter - mine bodily malfunctions), food faddists, cancer cures and other forms of medical quackery, Edgar Cayce, the Great Pyramid's alleged mystical powers, handwriting analysis, ESP and PK (psychokinesis), reincarnation, dowsing rods, eccentric sexual theories, and theories of group racial differences.

The danger of pseudoscience and quackery is very real, says Jeffrey I. Mechanick, an endocrinologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine who has written extensively about the use of dietary supplements in the treatment of diabetes and other metabolic diseases.

Much of alternative medicine is a nut farm, featuring warmed - over nineteenth - century quackery that ranges from worthless to lethal.

With doctorates in genetics and microbiology, Marchant is no fringe thinker advocating quackery.

By the time Old began his cancer research, in the 1950s, Coley's toxin had been relegated to the American Cancer Society's «black book» of suspected quackeries.

The major takeaway I had from this report was how similar «cold fusion» is to New Age quackery.

The first faction is open to new methods, mostly being interested and surprised because the «quackery» proves helpful.

«Science writers need to take an active role in challenging quackery,» he said.

The results underline «how, for most people, knowing genetic risk information doesn't have a big impact,» said Timothy Caulfield, of the University of Alberta, a critic of quackery.

Side Trip Science Museum of Minnesota St. Paul, Minnesota When the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices in Minneapolis closed in 2002, curator Bob McCoy donated his incredible collection of quackery to the science museum.

The quest has been plagued by far - fetched claims and even outright quackery.

Some sites allow anyone to initiate campaigns, but others sift through scientific proposals and try to screen out those which do not have academic affiliations or are obvious quackery.

«I have to say outright that a very important take - home message for your readers is that there's a huge amount of quackery,» says Pollak.

The book sounded like quackery, but the author's story was so much like mine... His remorse over being told he'd never play his favorite sports again, or pick up his kids, reverberated with me.

Quackery.

Physicians in traditional practices, however, viewed chelation therapy as quackery, since there truly was little science to support it.

«Quackery,» says Dr. Rehmus.