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I Apologize to Science!

Aug 11

Posted by Godless Girl in Your Daily Woo, randomness, science, skepticism and freethought | 11 Comments

May I present you with today’s episode of Your Daily Woo, brought to you—very unfortunately—by me. Try to figure out why I’m ashamed to have bought the following product:

I swear I didn’t know! It was 2009! I didn’t even use them! If I had realized what the label claimed, I wouldn’t have bought the silly things.

Dear science, please forgive me for purchasing homeopathic “medicine.”

The label says “No risk of side effects. No expiration date.” Of course there are no side effects and no expiration date. There’s nothing in them to cause a reaction! The main ingredient is bullshit.

Tags: homeopathy, medicine, pictures, remedies, science, snoring

Your Daily Woo: The Theme Song!

Nov 5

Posted by Godless Girl in Your Daily Woo, funny, skepticism and freethought, videos | 3 Comments

If you’re a fan of skepticism, science, and laughs, you’ll adore my favorite musical comic, Tim Minchin (possibly bumping the late, great Victor Borge down a notch). What I would give to see him perform live! He has the perfect song to illustrate the skeptic’s view of woo: “If You Open Your Mind Too Much Your Brain Will Fall Out (Take My Wife)”

You can download an mp3 of this song (and others) here!

Bonus! His long-and-worth-every-second hilarious beat poem “Storm” slams woo with crisp, creative rhyme. Tim, my mind is humping you! Hope that’s okay with your wife.

P.S. Did you know that my pet term “dewoosional” is now up on urbandictionary.com? Now you do.

Tags: comedy, funny, music, poetry, Tim Minchin, videos, woo, youtube

Your Daily Woo: Parents Refuse Chemo for Kid & Choose Mud Instead

Oct 13

Posted by Godless Girl in Your Daily Woo, science, skepticism and freethought | 23 Comments

Why is woo dangerous? I could pontificate for pages, but instead let’s look at a more-than-worthy example of some serious woo woo that is putting a child’s life on the line:

… A 14 year old girl, Tamar, was recently diagnosed with liver cancer which required immediate and aggressive chemotherapy. But her parents have shunned conventional treatment in favour of “mud” therapy. A team of oncologists at Princes Margaret Childrens’ Hospital advised that a seven week course of chemotherapy would give Tamar a 50-60% chance of survival. Despite the treating hospital pleading with the parents to consent to chemotherapy, eventually seeking the involvement of the WA legal system, the parents fled Australia to El Salvador.

Their preferred treatment is tea made from herbs, and red clay gathered from around the hills near their house in El Salvador. Tamar’s mother says that “Clay is basically the right medicine for any kind of illness, (it can cure) anything”. She went on to say, “..it dries up anything that is causing the illness in your system”.

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You’ve got to see the footage to believe it:

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Tags: health, news, rant, woo

Your Daily Woo: Twitter’s First Séance

Oct 12

Posted by Godless Girl in Your Daily Woo, randomness, twitter | 7 Comments

Twitter’s first online séance with the dead will take place on All SaintsSuckers Day October 30, 2009. This hilarious social networking woo-a-palooza–or in proper twitter speak, “Tweance”–will be run by psychic Jayne Wallace, says the Sun. According to the associated twitter account , you can take part in the fun:

Tweet your nominations for departed celebs to contact in the Halloween Tweance and what to ask them to @tweance #tweance

-@tweance (Angels Fancy Dress), 12-10-2009 14:07:47

The Sun explains the event further:

Tweeters can choose which of their deceased idols they want to talk to, pick a question — then follow the “Tweance” in real time using the social networking site.

Jayne [Wallace] — who has been a natural clairvoyant since she was seven — will quiz four late stars nominated by Twitterers between 10am and 12pm on Friday October 30.

“Natural clairvoyant” really means “talented showperson” and “dewoosional hustler,” right? Yes, I just made up the word Dewoosional.

So, which easily-imitated dead celebs can we contact via twitter? Is there a high speed internet connection in heaven now? Have they upgraded from parchment and scrolls since the bronze age?

What do you think will happen during this stunt?

(via @mashable)

Tags: seance, superstitions, woo