Comments for The Merseyside Skeptics Society

Comment on What Is It? #8 by Mike

Mike — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:25:30 +0000

They look like the squinty eyes of Ted Haggard to me.

Comment on What Is It? #8 by Jon d

Jon d — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:26:10 +0000

An author of iffy self-help books? Maybe it’s Wayne Dyer.

Comment on Question of The Week: What Foreign Woo Have You Found On Holiday? by Mark

Mark — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:03:01 +0000

Sorry Stu, I’m a Japan fan and went there last summer, so that was the holiday freshest in my mind

Comment on Question of The Week: What Foreign Woo Have You Found On Holiday? by Sel

Sel — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:27:56 +0000

As Shelley said about cruises and detoxifying seaweed. But the initial assessment included an expensive bioelectrical impedance test normally used by athletes to measure percentage fat – I think for the obese americans on our cruise a mirror would have been sufficient, and a hell of a lot cheaper! also it is a test doctors know about, but conceal from their patients apparently

Comment on Question of The Week: What Foreign Woo Have You Found On Holiday? by Clive

Clive — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:00:59 +0000

In Cuzco Peru, while visiting the inlaws we visited a ‘doctor’ who used a fresh egg as a diagnostic tool. We were given the egg and told to hold it for a while. The ‘doctor’ then broke it into a glass of water and examined it, basing her healing work on its appearance.

Comment on Question of The Week: What Foreign Woo Have You Found On Holiday? by Stu

Stu — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:50:42 +0000

Mark

Kyoto?

Now you’re just showing off!

Comment on Homeopathy and the 10:23 Campaign by Cardinal Sceptic

Cardinal Sceptic — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:50:26 +0000

If you consider homoeopathy at best, a placebo, is it your intention to also stop Boots selling NHS ‘faux medicines’ that are prescribed and dispensed as placebos? Hey, placebos work, even for sk(c)eptics. Is it your intention to remove totally, the ability for a doctor to decide?

By ’selling’, I refer to that happy band of brothers who actually pay for their medicines and don’t perceive them as free – making an NHS placebo about £2 more expensive than a Nelson’s one.

Comment on Question of The Week: What Foreign Woo Have You Found On Holiday? by Dave

Dave — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:58:36 +0000

On a bus trip in southern Portugal, as part of the commentary our tour guide informed us that using water divining was the best way of finding where to site a well.

Since i don’t believe in Portuguese dowsing does this make me a Euro Skeptic?

By the way the sun is 93 million miles away

Comment on Question of The Week: What Foreign Woo Have You Found On Holiday? by Mark

Mark — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:23:14 +0000

In Kyoto, Japan there’s a wonderful temple with quite a bunch of woo. There’s the love stones, where you have to walk from stone to stone repeating your loved one’s name to be together happily ever after. (It’s a straight line, but I’ve actually seen someone fail.) Then there’s the magic fountain which makes you live longer if you drink from it. Well, no harm in trying, right?
Not so much with the platform they’ve now fenced in. Regularly (a certain festival, iirc) people would jump down from there because it would make them manly. Or something like that. Luckily there’s trees below, so rarely someone died… broken bones is something else though…

Comment on InKredulous – The Pilot by Sion Hughes

Sion Hughes — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:37:31 +0000

Well I finally got the opportunity to listen to the show on my drive into work this morning and I loved it. Makes me want to be on it. I really hope you make this at least a semi-regular show, if not weekly. One thing though (and I can’t remember who said it, so I can’t name and shame them), somebody said that 10^400 was “five times larger” than 10^80. Please have them taken out behind the bike sheds and shot (10^400 is, of course 10^320 times larger than 10^80).