Dr. Colin A. Ross: Psychiatry, the Supernatural, and Malpractice Most Foul
“Q. Okay. Just to make sure I have covered the bases and the record is clear, there is no known, reliable method for distinguishing between true and false memories by talking to a patient?
A. True, except for one little qualifier. Obviously, physically impossible memories. Setting that aside, no.
Q. Something like having a [...]
Lies, Levitation, and Defamations Most Foul
The diagnosis is in: I have a malignant negativity, a “negative world view”, that prevents me from accepting the unique universal healing properties of Transcendental Meditation™ [TM]. My problem has been recognised by some of the top minds at Maharishi University (TM’s university in Fairfield, Iowa) who have expressed a willingness to take legal [...]
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Loading ...Remembering Lies: Interview with Psychiatric Abuse Victim Jeanette Bartha
“The Council finds that recollections obtained during hypnosis can involve confabulations and pseudomemories and not only fail to be more accurate, but actually appear to be less reliable than nonhypnotic recall.”
-American Medical Association, Council on Scientific Affairs, Scientific Status of Refreshing Recollections by the Use of Hypnosis, 1985.
“The evolution of pseudomemories is [...]
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(124 votes, average: 2.20 out of 5) Loading ...Report from the S.M.A.R.T. Ritual Abuse/Mind-Control Conference 2009, Part 2
On the weekend of August 15-16, Douglas Mesner attended a conference for alleged victims of Satanic Ritual Abuse and Mind-Control in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. This is the second part of his 2-part report:
As a “victorious survivor of incest, RA [Ritual Abuse], and Govt. MC [Mind Control]“, the aged and infirm “Julaine” understands how it [...]
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(162 votes, average: 2.06 out of 5) Loading ...Report from the S.M.A.R.T. Ritual Abuse/Mind-Control Conference 2009, Part 1
On the weekend of August 15-16, journalist Douglas Mesner (process.org) attended a conference for alleged victims of Satanic Ritual Abuse and Mind-Control in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. This is the first of his 2-part report:
The crude sales booth at the far end of the conference room marketing a more advanced species of tin-foil hat does [...]
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(150 votes, average: 2.03 out of 5) Loading ...Neurocreationism
Appended with author reply April 22.
The following book review, originally published in Skeptic Magazine volume 14, no. 2, gives my rather unflattering overview of the assertions made in The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul by Mario Beauregard and Denyse O’Leary. The book distresses me in that I see [...]
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(77 votes, average: 1.78 out of 5) Loading ...Comfortable Delusions: An Interview with Ray Comfort
The banana, Ray Comfort famously declared, is “the atheist’s nightmare”. Observe, if you will, the compelling evidence for God’s Creative Hand at work. A banana:
Is shaped for the human hand
Has a non-slip surface
Has outward indicators of inward content: Green — not ripe enough; Yellow — [...]
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(78 votes, average: 1.86 out of 5) Loading ...Reading, Writing, Transcendent Levitation
Friday 3 April, 2009: David Lynch’s press conference is poorly managed and uninformative but well-planned enough – it seems – to achieve its intended effect. The attending Press are either convinced, or confused and cowed – by the PowerPoint presentation of statistical graphs and PhD presented data.
Nobody seems capable of a sensible question by [...]
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