PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.
HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not.
Is New Ageism inherently fascist? Of course not, though I'm happy to pronounce its babble about chakras and cosmic energy errant quackery.
We have known for a long time that Prince Charles' empty sails are so rigged as to be swelled by any passing waft or breeze of crankiness and cant. He fell for the fake anthropologist Laurens van der Post. He was bowled over by the charms of homeopathic medicine. He has been believably reported as saying that plants do better if you talk to them in a soothing and encouraging way
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.
I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose.
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.
The practice of physic [Medicine] is jostled by quacks on the one side, and by science on the other.
If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.
We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.
We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble.
I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.
You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.
You might think that modern chiropractors restrict themselves to treating back problems, but in fact they still possess some quite wacky ideas. The fundamentalists argue that they can cure anything. And even the more moderate chiropractors have ideas above their station.
It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science.
Virtually any pointed edifice is considered a candidate for alien engineering. After all, how could the Egyptians or Mayans have possibly stacked up stone blocks into pyramids?
