Alanna Moore Threatens Legal Action July 29, 2008
Posted by Graham in : Science and Rationaltiy , 16commentsAlanna Moore has posted a new comment on my post Woo Woo Everywhere which I reproduce here with my comments:
Alanna Moore here.
Interesting “debate”, a pity that most of the writers are awfully ill-informed on their subjects. (Hard to believe they have time to write this stuff, shouldnt they be out saving the world?). I’m not in my home office, otherwise I would pull out those missing references to investigations of dowsing using scientific instrumentation. But if you have access to a copy of Christopher Bird’s massive volume ‘Divining’ it’s all in there. If there wasnt a scientific aspect to dowsing there wouldnt be geologists in Russia being taught how to dowse and I wouldn’t have met the president of the Russian Scientific Dowsing Society, when I was a speaker at the International Dowsing Congress held in the UK in 2003.
As an international teacher of dowsing, as a qualified permaculture teacher, and as an author of critically acclaimed books on the application of dowsing to enhance life and gardening/farming - I have my reputation to defend here. I dont need ignorant people getting on my back. Especially when they obviously havent read my books (and seen the copious lists of references in them!) You can order my books from Counter Culture in the UK. (They are also published by Acres USA and elsewhere.)
Your credentials are irrelevant. The question is evidence. Dowsing and other paranormal abilities claimed the world over cannot pass the double-blind test- you are obviously aware of this in the comment on your website which I quoted in the post. (more…)
Climate Swindles July 22, 2008
Posted by Graham in : Science and Rationaltiy, climate change , 4commentsAl Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” seemed to bring to a close some of the misinformation about climate science. A small coterie of climate skeptics- not scientists themselves- had managed to hold the planet to ransom by claiming to represent a marginalised but legitimate climate-skeptic position within the scientific community. In fact, these people were in general paid by Big Oil and Big coal to spread this misinformation: there has been no significant dispute amongst climate scientists for more than 10 years. (more…)
