Thursday, May 17, 2012

You Fucking Lying Liars

As any regular reader would surely agree, I'm a reasonably easy-going individual with a relatively free attitude to other people and the choices they make. But there is one thing that really makes my blood boil and it's liars, or more specifically fucking lying liars.

Especially those fucking lying liars who prey on the weak and vunerable. Like mediums or those fucking lying liars who try to flog alternative medicines to sick, desperate people.

I started thinking about this when reading an electronic notice board posting that read "After a number of disappointments, my wife has found a really nice lady who offers High Quality and reasonably priced holisitc therapies in the Chesterfield area."

Now, where the fuck do we begin with that? Lets start at the beginning and work through it.

"After a number of dissapointments . . . . "

This part of the sentence alone is going to take some analysing. A number of dissapointments implies that this poor woman has been stung quite a few times by these fraudsters, but kept at it. I think it was Einstien who defined insanity as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". This kind of thinking was also, now famously, covered by George Bush "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — [pauses] — shame on you. Fool me — [pauses] — You can't get fooled again"

"High Quality and reasonably priced holisitc therapies . . . ."

How can you put a price, reasonable or otherwise, on nothing? It's like saying my losing lottery ticket was reasonably priced. I mean come on people, The Emperors New Clothes not ringing a bell?

I can't really get that angry with the woman who found these bargains. My vitriol is reserved for the fucking lying liars that sell these "services".

After laughing at the irony in the original post I deceided to Google holistic just to see what kind of crap it is and boy Google did not dissapoint. http://www.healthk.co.uk/holistic.htm is about top of the list of propoganda for this shite, which makes some quite frankly incredible, but easily refuted claims.

Here are a sample of some of the claims that set-off my Bullshit meter -

1. The Appeal To Authority.

The claim that stood out for me was that Aristotle was the Father Of Kinesiology. Kinesology is quoted by the aformentioned webstite as -


"Kinesiology means "the study of movement". As a treatment system, it involves testing muscles through their range of movement and correcting any weaknesses detected. Because muscles are linked to internal organs and to meridians in the Chinese model of medicine, disturbances in muscle function will flag up problems in internal function and energy flow round the body. Correcting a weak muscle will improve energy flow in the related meridian and function in the related organ."

"Kinesiology stems from work done by an Orthopedic Surgeon, Dr Robert W.Lovett, from Boston, Massachusetts in 1920′s, although kinesiology itself originates with Aristotle (384- 322 B.C.) who is named the ”Father of Kinesiology”."

Now lets start with some facts, even though Aristotles father was a doctor he was dead by the time Aristotle was 10 years old. At 17 or 18 Aristotle had joined Plato's Academy, where he studied and eventually taught before leaving after 20 years, some say because he was dissapointed the direction the Academy took after control was passed to Plato's nephew upon his death or that he feared anti-Macedonian sentiment. In physical science, Aristotle studied anatomy, astronomy, embryology, geography, geology, meteorology, physics and zoology.

 There is no mention anywhere of Aristotle being the father of anything other than offspring. The Father Of Kinesiology claim is mentioned only on these bogus health websites.

2. Old Earth Wison or Old Wives Tales.

The aforementioned website also repeats these old chesnuts -

"Holistic Therapies have been around for thousands of years. The Chinese have known about the energy flowing through the meridians for over 4,000 years and developed acu-puncture to tap into and unblock the energy flows. Chinese Medicine uses acu-puncture and herbal remedies while from the Indian sub-continent we have Ayurveda - 'the Science of Life' - a system that has been around for 5,000 years"




Now then, as anyone who's ever looked into acu-puncture will know it'ws complete bullshit. It has been shown to work no better than placebo time after time in clinical trials. Also Herbal Medicine? We use this everyday, it's called Aspirin, it's produced from willow bark extract and can be traced back to Hippocrates in 400BC. I know nothing about Ayurveda and I honestly can't be bothered to research it. But the following graph sums up the effectiveness of these ancient "medicines".





To sum up, the above website defines In Health Kinesiology™ as -

"(HK)BioEnergy corrections are done by gently holding or tapping acupuncture points with the fingertips."

I think it's more accurate to say the only effective tapping here is the tapping of peoples wallets.

Monday, May 14, 2012

Man City Win Title

Manchester City celebrate As the rest of the country yawned with disinterest Manchester City bought their first Premier League title. A four year spending spree of over £360 million has finally paid dividends as yesterday Man City collected a trophy made from half a millimeter of silver.

With a team bulging with local talent, including some as close as Columbia, Ivory Coast, Togo, Italy and Wales, Man City secured the win against ten man QPR with two goals in injury time. It is yet to be declared just how much this injury time cost.