the university’s just released report – a document that gives an all-clear, or at least all-clear-enough, to an anti-vaccine course taught by homeopath Beth Landau-Halpern at U of T’s Scarborough campus’s department of anthropology, as part of the health studies program offered there.
“We will delve into quantum physics’ understanding of disease and alternative medicine to provide a scientific hypothesis of how these modalities may work…” Ms. Landau-Halpern promised those considering registering for her course, Alternative Health: Practice and Theory.
That sentence, which has given actual quantum physicists the vapours, is the academic equivalent of reversing the polarity of the neutron flow to stabilize the fluctuations in the temporal rift. It’s the kind of babble that saves fictional spacecraft and kills real babies. (read more)
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Just did some digging (really, was looking for the course syllabus for shits and giggles) but apparently UofT has concluded that the course won't be taught this year.Source
So when does U of T start offering Muggle Studies and Potions class?
When I first read the headline was all "I would love to have a BS in Pseudoscience!" thinking it would be all about understanding the different kinds of quackery people have made over the years and debunking them. But no, this is sold straight.
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"masters of pseudoscience"
Sounds like a summer movie.
And they call conservatives regressive and anti-science. HA!!! This is even worse gobbly-gook. Pretending fake science is real science.
The other night on Netflix I watched "An Honest Liar" which is a documentary on the life of The Amazing Randi and some of the frauds he exposed. I also forced my will-believe-almost-anything-new age-or-ancient-bullshit, yet incredibly sexy and wonderful girlfriend to watch it too.
It was incredible and wisdom inducing to see how people insist on believing what they want to, totally impervious to evidence, no matter how completely it destroys the thing they belief.
I wasn't surprised when the people in the congregation of a faith healer fraud refused to accept his exposure as a liar, but one part would be very to valuable to watch for people like Ritmo, who completely buy AGW because scientists. The the highly regarded scientists investigating the validity of paranormal powers were completely scammed by Randi's team, despite the fact that he told the scientist exactly how to catch them. The scientists eventually violated every scientific control in the experiments in order to get the result they wanted. Even after Randi revealed the fraud, they refused to accept the truth and clung to the lies. It was amazing, disappointing and the kind of thing that makes you a much wiser consumer of "facts". Scientists are human just like evangelists, politicians, and con men.
The show also has a gay marriage and illegal immigration angle. Watch it and learn.
There is one and only valid method of science, the scientific method. If you are a scientist and you stick by using this method, chances are, you will be a very reputable and successful scientist.
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