List of pseudoscience topics from Wikipedia

[Don Coyote]

People remember the hits and forget the misses.  That's why cold reading works.

Well that and they want to feel special

I tend to make people angry. By people I mean practitioners of 'martial arts' the kind that go on and on about having strong ki. And other people that claim to be able to project energy from their hands.

The reasons you hands feel warm is because you rubbed them together for like 5 minutes before making your fucking chi-ball.

[Doktor Howl]

I ONCE SAW A GHOST!!! 

it turned out to be my fucking imagination ASSTRAL PLANEZ!

Fixed for the retard set.

This just kills me.  The world is full of weird shit that actually exists/happens but people ignore it completely, and then make shit up to compensate for there being no weird shit.

What is weird shit that actually happens but people ignore?

1.  Spend a few hours travelling on the city bus.  All will be explained.

2.  The sheer number of people with crippling (and funny) neurosis (Dunning/Krueger is my favorite), that interact with you in bizarre ways.

3.  Weird cults.  We have them.

4.  Scollay Square in Boston.

5.  The tunnels under Portland and Chicago.

6.  Perverts are everywhere.  Most of them are really fun people.

I could go on, but there's really no point.  If you start looking around you, you start seeing all manner of bizarre shit that's been going on all along, and your list will look very different from mine.

[cheezer]

ZOO PORN

[Kai]

Also, biology.

Nothing specific, just that.



Did you know theres an insect that as a larvae, lives in streams and lakes and is an obligate parasite of freshwater sponges? And then, when it goes to pupate it crawls some thirty feet from the water body and spins a "geodesic" dome of silk as protection? They're called spongillaflies, btw, and the adults feed on flowers. And I caught one in my light trap.

[Don Coyote]

I ONCE SAW A GHOST!!! 

it turned out to be my fucking imagination ASSTRAL PLANEZ!

Fixed for the retard set.

This just kills me.  The world is full of weird shit that actually exists/happens but people ignore it completely, and then make shit up to compensate for there being no weird shit.

What is weird shit that actually happens but people ignore?

1.  Spend a few hours travelling on the city bus.  All will be explained.

2.  The sheer number of people with crippling (and funny) neurosis (Dunning/Krueger is my favorite), that interact with you in bizarre ways.

3.  Weird cults.  We have them.

4.  Scollay Square in Boston.

5.  The tunnels under Portland and Chicago.

6.  Perverts are everywhere.  Most of them are really fun people.

I could go on, but there's really no point.  If you start looking around you, you start seeing all manner of bizarre shit that's been going on all along, and your list will look very different from mine.

Man i was expecting shit I had been missing.

[Thurnez Isa]

Also, biology.

Nothing specific, just that.



Did you know theres an insect that as a larvae, lives in streams and lakes and is an obligate parasite of freshwater sponges? And then, when it goes to pupate it crawls some thirty feet from the water body and spins a "geodesic" dome of silk as protection? They're called spongillaflies, btw, and the adults feed on flowers. And I caught one in my light trap.

AND GEOLOGY
if you don't believe me ILL HIT YOU WITH A ROCK

[Doktor Howl]

I ONCE SAW A GHOST!!! 

it turned out to be my fucking imagination ASSTRAL PLANEZ!

Fixed for the retard set.

This just kills me.  The world is full of weird shit that actually exists/happens but people ignore it completely, and then make shit up to compensate for there being no weird shit.

What is weird shit that actually happens but people ignore?

1.  Spend a few hours travelling on the city bus.  All will be explained.

2.  The sheer number of people with crippling (and funny) neurosis (Dunning/Krueger is my favorite), that interact with you in bizarre ways.

3.  Weird cults.  We have them.

4.  Scollay Square in Boston.

5.  The tunnels under Portland and Chicago.

6.  Perverts are everywhere.  Most of them are really fun people.

I could go on, but there's really no point.  If you start looking around you, you start seeing all manner of bizarre shit that's been going on all along, and your list will look very different from mine.

Man i was expecting shit I had been missing.

Sorry I didn't meet your standards.

Dok,
Wonders why he bothers at all.

[Doktor Howl]

Fuck it.  Done with this.  You spend a few minutes trying to make your case, and the response is "OH IS THAT ALL?  I'M SO FUCKING WEIRD AND ZANY THAT YOUR POST IS OLD HAT!"

[Freeky]

Sorry I didn't meet your standards.

Dok,
Wonders why he bothers at all.

Meh, don't bother with people who only want to see what they want to see Dok.

Meanwhile, I have become distressed ever since I stopped noticing all that stuff. So yeah, plz to let's find The Weird this Friday, okay?

[Cainad (dec.)]

It is a pretty all encompassing big list, I think... For me, this guy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcello_Truzzi and his reasons for leaving SCICOP are interesting. Though I know this will might get another "FFS" or at least an "SMH" from Dok Howl, I'll put it out there:

I believe in Ghosts, ESP, and lots of other "Sciences" on that list. What I relate it in my head is often to the Geiger Counter. Before that, there was no accurate way of measuring radioactivity though we sort of knew something was up. The Geiger Counter gave us a way to quantify that energy. Ghosts, dreams that predict the future etc etc, are all parts of the natural world that have yet to be explained. I believe that matter cannot be created or destroyed. From that, I postulate that there are types of energy, methods of releasing that energy, and eventually, ways of measuring and explaining that energy.

On the other hand, things like Phrenology and the Hongcheng Magic Liquid are rather funny

wut

1) That's not a matter of belief, that's the way the universe is. A natural law, even. One does not "believe" natural laws any more than one "believes" in anything that can be clearly tested, observed, and proven. We call that sort of belief "knowledge" (and I will internet-punch anybody who goes all "Reality Tunnels LOLOLOL" on this discussion).

2) How in gibbering splutterfuck does that have anything to do with ghosts, ESP, or any other hoo-hah spunkdiddling nonsense that middle-aged women dressed in gaudy clothing use to weasel money out of your gullible ass (a profession which I have the utmost respect for, btw; milk the suckers dry!)?

Or are you gonna tell me that a person's "soul" is made out of some kind of "energy", and therefore ghosts and spirits must exist becuz science sez so, you guys!

[Doktor Howl]

Sorry I didn't meet your standards.

Dok,
Wonders why he bothers at all.

Meh, don't bother with people who only want to see what they want to see Dok.

Meanwhile, I have become distressed ever since I stopped noticing all that stuff. So yeah, plz to let's find The Weird this Friday, okay?

I think we can manage that.  No point posting any of it, though, as it's all old news.  

[Freeky]

Sorry I didn't meet your standards.

Dok,
Wonders why he bothers at all.

Meh, don't bother with people who only want to see what they want to see Dok.

Meanwhile, I have become distressed ever since I stopped noticing all that stuff. So yeah, plz to let's find The Weird this Friday, okay?

I think we can manage that.  No point posting any of it, though, as it's all old news.  

As long as we find it, I'm good.

[Faust]

It is a pretty all encompassing big list, I think... For me, this guy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcello_Truzzi and his reasons for leaving SCICOP are interesting. Though I know this will might get another "FFS" or at least an "SMH" from Dok Howl, I'll put it out there:

I believe in Ghosts, ESP, and lots of other "Sciences" on that list. What I relate it in my head is often to the Geiger Counter. Before that, there was no accurate way of measuring radioactivity though we sort of knew something was up. The Geiger Counter gave us a way to quantify that energy. Ghosts, dreams that predict the future etc etc, are all parts of the natural world that have yet to be explained. I believe that matter cannot be created or destroyed. From that, I postulate that there are types of energy, methods of releasing that energy, and eventually, ways of measuring and explaining that energy.

On the other hand, things like Phrenology and the Hongcheng Magic Liquid are rather funny

We have lots of ways to measure energy, ghosts as a psychological disfunction don't appear on them because they have no mass and are mearly ideas, its not a case that we will one day have a way to measure them.

[AFK]

Sorry I didn't meet your standards.

Dok,
Wonders why he bothers at all.

Meh, don't bother with people who only want to see what they want to see Dok.

Meanwhile, I have become distressed ever since I stopped noticing all that stuff. So yeah, plz to let's find The Weird this Friday, okay?

I think we can manage that.  No point posting any of it, though, as it's all old news.  

As long as we find it, I'm good.

Hey now, we're not all know-it-all fuddy-duddy's.  Please to be sharing. 

[Doktor Howl]

Sorry I didn't meet your standards.

Dok,
Wonders why he bothers at all.

Meh, don't bother with people who only want to see what they want to see Dok.

Meanwhile, I have become distressed ever since I stopped noticing all that stuff. So yeah, plz to let's find The Weird this Friday, okay?

I think we can manage that.  No point posting any of it, though, as it's all old news.  

As long as we find it, I'm good.

Hey now, we're not all know-it-all fuddy-duddy's.  Please to be sharing. 

Yeah, of course we will.  I'm just a little annoyed with the fact that I wasted time on a serious post to SL.  He deliberately blew past the idea I was trying to convey, in favor of showing that he's seen it all, done it all, yada yada whatever.

I'm a slow learner, sometimes, but eventually the message sinks in...Don't bother.