I get email

All it takes is a little prompting: I write a post titled “The Bible is not a medical text“, and next thing you know, someone sends me an email titled “The Vedas are a medical text”. It’s enough to make a fellow weep.

Dear Sir,

I am PhD Scholar, enrolled with Utkal University of Culture, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India.
The Topic I selected is

“Vedas- A New Critical Analysis with Special reference to Human Body and Health”

The Vedas quotes about NaNo technology, and I have analyzed the details in depth and is available in PDF form. I have proved that supportive therapy to cure cancer and recovery from coma is possible if we improve the oxygen, Nitrogen, Sodium and urea content in the atmosphere.

If any one wish to have the details and if they contact me I am ready to share my findings with Nero surgeons and Cancer specialists. Please contact me for further details.

Please down load the abstract of my thesis

Regards

Ramachandran

Because if there is one thing our atmosphere is lacking, it’s an adequate urea content.

He did send along a copy of his abstract. It’s 29 pages long. It’s also hilarious.

Read it here.

Here in treating the diseases with blood disorder we are burning the oil, filtered through cotton thread create the heat and the heat so produced has the quality of the herbal along with the atomic force, that penetrates through the skin, combine with iron in the blood, converting them in to lead first, then vanadium, then iridium and so on. We are sending these rays through copper plates roof or by placing Egg shaped copper balls, so that the rays break in to millions anus and form NaNo particles and give good result.

Who knew our bodies were little nuclear reactors, busily transmuting elements? I’m not sure why the word “anus” suddenly intrudes there, but he does throw around the term “NaNo” a lot, and it’s always capitalized in the peculiar way.

He’s really infatuated with the idea of correlating radioactive decay with something going on in the body.

In the case of Cancer cells that the cell of electron eats away the magnetic force the heating elements and forms a mound which creates Heavy Hydrogen rays and swindling the magnetic force from the nuclides. If we study and identify the type of radiation that the cancer cell eliminates when contacting the tissues and blood and start decay, we may find many of these emissions are accompanied by the additional emission of one or more gamma rays. Naturally it may seem that the longer a particular atom of a radioactive nuclide has been around, the greater the chance it will decay.

But for the most part, it’s incoherent gibberish.

The change in atmosphere will help a lot in improving the condition of the Cancer patient and that through NaNo will help a lot. This was explained as stories in Puranas and the herbals were given the name, which they started worshipping as gods and goddess. Particularly the herbals that cured cancer, which genes had the similar to heads of dogs was worshipped as Bhairavas which use to come with dogs to fight with the enemies. The dog is none other than the plant Calotropis Gigantea Alba.(In Sanskrit it is Alarka)

Got that? Genes have the heads of dogs which are actually a reference to an herbal treatment, therefore changing the atmosphere with NaNo technology will cure cancer.

Now my head hurts.

Crap. Now he has sent me more email.

Please read the full text attached herewith and post your comments.

I am brahmin and read Vedas Fully A to Z. I am aged 60 and has an authority to discuss about this.

Do you know I read 100s of manuscript written in Sanskrit and Nagari.

Do you know about Vedas?

If so at what extent?

It is a great work done by me. I am not talking about gods and goddess.

If you wish to argue with me read the full text and mail me your questions.

Read this several time before posting any comments.

Read these entire text if you have patience.

A man who encourage researches should be encouraged.

The doctors are giving oxygen to the patient. Do you that atmosphere has all other components apart from oxygen that is needed by our system? Our body needs all the chemical content in the room through our breath and our environments are fully responsible for our health. When a candle light dinner causes cancer why a herbal smoke can not work as a supportive medicine to cure cancer?

So before scolding any one use your mind.

Use polite words.

By the by do you know the Lankathipathy Ravana has written comments on Rig Veda that deals with Foetus and child birth?

If you don’t know come to India I will show that book to you.

I wish you to meet me in India, in chennai I will show from where I collected these materials.

Ever page has a foot note please go through them

Wish you to meet you and argue and tell more in near future that too after you read the entire text.

Regards

Ramachandran

He included a pile of attachments — it looks like about 600+ pages. No, I’m not going to read them.

Oh, OK. I glanced at one.

It was B.C. 25,000 the first Veda manthra was chanted in South Pole.

The learned pandits and scholars who studied and analyzed the various Planets in the universe, divided the path of the Planets as Zodiac, at 300 each consisting of Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, and Pisces.

They came to a conclusion that each Planets is creating a vibration and named them as Electrons (-ve) the male planets; Magnetic forces (+ve), the female Planets and Transgender (That is the æthers), that transfers the energy in to the Earth, due to which the human body formed and the life energy is stored in the Earth.

They also got concrete evidences that all the rays coming out of each Planets are coming to South Pole where all the rays and vibrations combine together and throw them to the Earth, which is pulled by the North Pole. They felt that South Pole is axle of the Earth. This they named as Gayathri.

I’m done. That’s enough.

Cheaper than NASA

I’d love to visit Mars, especially if I could go with some dolphins. And now, for a mere $1550, I could attend the Dolphins & Teleportation Symposium 2011 and learn how to teleport!

This Workshop will include interspatial communication, quantum merging, E.T contact, teleportation to Mars, swimming in gentle waters with dolphins, sound healing, heart opening, cell activating, soul leadership, your planetary mission, laughter and humor, divine feminine, Geomancy, higher consciousness, the transformation of the ages, sacred wisdom societies, Martian life & artifacts, creating new timelines, mysticism and physics, empathy, intuition and creativity combined with logic and wisdom; PLUS Alternative 4 – the benevolent, peaceful reality we are creating.

That all sounds wonderful, except for the “heart opening” part. This could all be a front for a sinister cult that draws loving people in with tales of dolphins and laughter, and when they get you alone in the seminar room, the black robes are donned, the chanting begins, and out come the razor-sharp obsidian knives and you learn that the magic teleportation requires a sacrifice of a heart to the dark dolphin gods. At least all the participants will have wisely gotten high before the blood starts flowing.

Oh, well, I’d still go. Do you think they’ll pay my way to come over and cover the event for a popular and widely read blog?

From the crazy part of Minnesota

Minnesota State Representative Tom Hackbarth is a Republican. How can you tell? By his deranged behavior.

A security guard at a St. Paul Planned Parenthood clinic called the cops last week after he spotted a Republican state lawmaker with a loaded gun in the parking lot. But the pol says he was only “checking on” his online girlfriend, who he thought may be on a date with another man — a claim police have not been able to corroborate because the man did not have a phone number or address for the woman.

Because that’s how married (but putatively in the midst of a divorce) Republicans look for their girlfriends: by hanging out in Planned Parenthood parking lots with a gun. It’s totally charming that he didn’t know her address and phone number, since they were just “online” friends — I guess he was just bringin’ the real by stalking her with a gun.

I am really amused by his disclaimer.

“I was not a jealous boyfriend,” he said. “I was just trying to check up on her. It’s totally a misunderstanding.”

Yeah. Just checking. With a gun. That’s how we all monitor our wimmin.

Are you surprised that his district overlaps with Michele Bachmann’s?

I get email

Would you believe I still get lots of mail from devout Catholics? I still even get these nice heartfelt letters via regular mail from little old Catholic ladies who think their flowery stationery will finally bring me around to the faith. But mainly I get something out of the blue where I can tell someone has stumbled onto one article that has offended them deeply, and they write to berate me for it. They usually don’t even bother to tell me what it is that has annoyed them so, not that it really matters.

Article

I am always amazed when I read an article such as yours and have a chance to witness the stupidity and ignorance of many of todays so-called professors. Before I point out your complete ignorance I will say this. A Catholic hater is the most easiest of all arogant people to recognize. I will also say this. You were either once a catholic or never had any strong affiliation with a church. The biggest haters of the church are catholics, who for various reasons no longer feel that it fits their lifestyle. They are usually divorced or have a deep personal resentment for the church that has “let them down.” They almost always find a church that “understands” their needs.

Ooh, ouch. Making predictions is a bad idea when you suck at it. I’m not a Catholic, and never have been, and never will be. I was brought up in the Lutheran church, but I left it in my teens. I am not divorced, and am in a happy relationship that has lasted for over 30 years; in fact, I don’t feel resentment about much of anything, since I think I’ve had a remarkably good and fortunate life.

Perhaps Mr Moore here was confused because he saw only one article and didn’t read very far. I’m not a Catholic hater; I think all religions are lies.

Now, your statement about priest. What you and others like you avoid saying is that the priests that do these type of things are gay. Priests that maintain the male orientation do not do these things. Bur if you spoke the truth you would offend your gay friends, and we can’t have that now can we. The other issue is that most of the crimes against young boys have happened over 30 years ago or longer. The rate of new cases is far under what happens with teachers in public schools and other denominations. Yes, it is even higher now among jewish rabbis. But no one is saying that so as not to offend. The catholic church will continue to be attacked by the likes of you because Christ predicted it. If you spent have the time that you spend on reaserching ways to attack the church and spend it on learning the truth, you would find peace. But you will never find peace. I will bet you that you are very unhappy and actually a miserable person inside.

Two flaws in Mr Moore’s reasoning:

  1. Raping children is not the same thing as consensual sex between two adults; these are not “gay” crimes, and equating abuse with consensual behavior is rather revolting. It is also not the case that only young boys are victimized; girls are mistreated, too.

  2. The “they do it, too!” excuse simply does not work. That some teachers are pedophiles does not mean it is unfair to pick on the poor child-raping priests. Catholics claim a greater virtue, so they don’t get to shuck all their guilt when they’re caught red-handed, and in fact ought to be held to a higher standard, according to their own views; and there’s also a significant difference between a priest and a secular professional. When a teacher gets caught diddling children, he will be arrested, fired, and banned from the profession. What we’ve learned is that when a Catholic priest fondles children, he’ll get sheltered, paid off, and transferred to a new parish and a fresh collection of kids.

I really do have a lot of Catholic mail that claims the real problem isn’t abuse of power by amoral abusers in the Catholic hierarchy…it’s those damned gays. And they accuse me of hate.

It is not too late for a change of heart but I will remind you that if you continue in this fashion you will have much to answer for in the next world. Your few years of study will have been for nothing. To many of us, it already has been for nothing. To come where you are now in life, with a heart full of hate, is very sad. If years of study can bring a person to this much lack of knowledge, it is easy to see why our colleges a places of complete ignorance of truth.

And now we get to it. I must note that Mr Moore is the one who says years of study are for nothing, who belittles institutions of higher learning, and then whines about how we are ignorant of the truth. Perhaps if he’d paid a little more attention to the minor niceties of spelling and grammar, as well as the more significant skills of logic and reasoning, it wouldn’t be quite so obvious who is the ignorant one in this argument.

I don’t have a heart full of hate, either. Although I begin to feel a good bit of anger at people who try to rationalize and trivialize child rape.

What is it with kinesiologists?

I know it’s a respectable field; kinesiology is the study of human movement, and I’ve known some who are sensible and well-trained (applied kinesiology, on the other hand, is total bunk). But it’s becoming a bit like engineers and the Salem hypothesis — I also run into creationists who proclaim their kinesiology degrees, like the frothing mad Joseph Mastropaolo. I’m beginning to think there must be some deep conceptual hole in the formal educational background of kinesiologists.

Anyway, here’s another example: a professor of kinesiology, Phil Bishop has written the most wonderfully condescending and wrong letter to the Crimson White at the University of Alabama. I have to marvel at the ignorance of an individual so handicapped by stupidity and religion (whoops, pardon my redundancy), yet who still managed to flop his crippled way upwards to achieve a position with some intellectual authority.

Show compassion for atheist friends

Evolution has been a hot topic in the CW as of late. I understand the emotion that evolutionary theory carries for my atheist friends, but I can’t figure why my theist, deist and agnostic friends feel so much passion against Darwinism.

For Muslims, Jews and Christians, whether or not evolution happened is irrelevant. For these people, God created, but how He did so is not specified in detail.

However, for my atheist friends, Darwinism is essential. A Christian can believe in evolution or not, but an atheist must contrive some natural means for life and speciation that must, for philosophical consistency, exclude any Divine intervention.

An attack on evolution threatens the very foundations of atheism, so it is a “life and death” issue, and consequently an emotional one. Darwinism may have some serious problems, but hey, it’s the best they can do for now. So, Christians, show a little compassion for our atheist friends.

Ah, such a lovely illustration of the backwardness of religious thinking. Evolution is not a philosophical rationalization; it is not a desperate exercise in weird, wild apologetics that exists solely to justify an ideology. It’s the hard rock of reality in the path of your philosophical peregrinations. You can look like an idiot and try to butt heads against reality, or you incorporate it into your understanding. Creationists do the former. Rational people do the latter.

Get it? For atheists, evolution and other aspects of reality and the natural world come first, and the atheism comes second as a consequence, not a cause, of our understanding of the universe. For the fanatical Christian, apparently, their delusions come first, and any natural, real phenomena must be warped in their imaginations to fit their weird and unsupportable interpretation of how the universe ought to be. And they seem to think other people’s minds are distorted in the same way.

It’s like looking at a dancer and arguing that she must have invented the concept of a floor in order to carry out her heathenish gyrations, and oh, fortunate Christian that he is, Phil Bishop gets to pretend that his dance is free of the constraints of gravity and frames of reference and the stage and the music. Which is probably why he looks like a spastic klutz with no rhythm when he trips onto the dance floor.

The final decision on the biotechnology debate at the Economist

After the total votes were added up in the big GMO debate, the Economist scores it 62% against biotechnology, 38% for biotechnology. They also explain that there was a huge turnout and that there was a lot of active campaigning for particular views.

The voting has shifted dramatically during this debate, starting out heavily in favour of the motion, swinging strongly in the other direction (seemingly in response to an organised campaign by anti-GM activists), and then swinging back towards the middle. But in the end the opponents of biotechnology—or, more precisely, the opponents of genetic modification in its current form—carried the day with 62% of the votes, against 38% for supporters of the motion.

So, one strike against genetically modified organisms, one big win for pharyngulation. These online polls are a terrible way to resolve debates, since all it takes is a few big sites charging in to advocate a view to greatly skew the results. The Economist seems to fail to grasp that concept even now, unfortunately.

What about these anti-GM activists? I pointed out one example. It turns out that another bunch of them were at Crazy Mike’s Sewer Pipe of Misinformation, where Mike Adams now gloats about his ‘victory’. He’s also got some wild conspiracy theories, and fascinating descriptions of you, fellow readers of Pharyngula.

Today’s “scientism” followers (the cult worshippers who call themselves “science bloggers”) don’t value life, knowledge or truth. For some astonishing reason, they pick the most evil side of every issue. On the issue of GMOs, for example, they automatically side with Monsanto and DuPont, calling for more biotech Frankenseed interventions that threaten the very future of life on our planet.

Well, I think if you actually look at the discussions that went on here, you find a lot of opposition to corporate abuse of technology; there were many people who thought biotech was fine, but Monsanto…not so benevolent. You also found people who opposed genetically modified organisms, and the vote from this side was not monolithic at all.

On the issue of Big Pharma and the mass-drugging of world citizens with patented synthetic chemicals, the science bloggers of course side with the drug companies! Big Pharma and the FDA can do no wrong in their eyes, and the solution to health is, they say, found in prescribing more chemicals to more people!

If these people were living back in the 1950’s, they would no doubt side with Big Tobacco, because the “science” at that time said cigarettes were actually good for you! The Journal of the American Medical Association, by the way, actually used to run full-page advertisements for cigarettes. And they were endorsed by doctors and scientists, too.

Actually, no, the science in the 1950s found cigarettes to be a serious risk factor. Tobacco companies funded biased research to argue otherwise, for the purpose of confusing legal and political interests. The scientific interests weren’t fooled.

Gee, no wonder they keep losing all the legitimate polls and surveys. Does anyone still believe that modern medicine is working? Does anyone really think that the answer to the problems facing human civilization is to be found in more chemicals, more genetic alterations, more playing God with nature and more corporate control over our food, medicine, genes and ideas? (The science bloggers, by the way, also support corporate ownership of human genes, 20% of which are right now patented by corporations and universities. This is an affront to natural law and a crime against humanity…)

Science bloggers, by the way, do not actually represent science. They worship a cult called “scientism” that pushes a corporate agenda which seeks to concentrate power in the hands of the few while denying food, freedom and health to the people.

I favor corporate ownership of human genes? Wow, you learn something new and wrong every time you read Crazy Mike.

Speaking of mental illness…

David Hedrick, a failed Teabagger candidate for congress, has written a children’s book that has to be seen to be believed. It’s called The Liberal Claus(e): Socialism on a Sleigh, and it’s a fable about Santa Claus being deposed in a rigged vote by Barack Obama, who installs his evil cronies Pelosi, Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, as some kind of head elves. Then all the elves are forced to join an evil labor union, and they ship free candy canes to all the children to get them to accept their evil regime.

Seriously. If you want a glimpse of the delusional world the teabaggers live in, look at this book.

You aren’t really watching this

You can’t. Because the reptoids destroyed our network infrastructure with a massive electromagnetic pulse on the 6th of November, and they’re all going to be down for at least 6 months.

She starts off looking normal, but the first sign that there might be something amiss is the big cheesy Kinkade painting in the background. By the end, when she’s raving about Pleiadeans and Sirians and Bilderbergers, and how she’s the mother of every being in the galaxy, you’ll be feeling sorry for the poor dear.

She’s got a whole youtube channel that is a sad demonstration of an ongoing psychiatric collapse. I hope she’s got family or friends who are going to get her help.

(via Gawker)

Magnets. How do they work?

That’s not the Insane Clown Posse…it’s Ray Comfort again, screwing up once more.

First, he complains about Richard Feynman (I know! Comfort vs. Feynman sounds a bit like Bambi vs. Godzilla), because he didn’t give a simple answer to the question about how magnets repel and attract, but actually goes on at length about what are good questions before explaining succinctly that these forces are everywhere, we just take them for granted. It might be annoying if you want a one-sentence answer, but aren’t willing to accept “go master Maxwell’s equations” as that explanation.

Comfort’s explanation is to watch this video. You will discover that it says nothing about how magnetism, but is only a cheap trick that he uses to hook people into his hateful evangelical baloney. This whole “everyone is evil” crap is Christianity’s worst contribution to humanity, and it’s the entirety of Comfort’s schtick.

If Comfort tried that game with me, I’d take his box away, ask him to show me whether he’s good or bad, and when it automatically announces that he’s a bad man, ask him why I should believe one word out of his lying mouth.