The Very Model Of A Loopy New Age Gullible

Those who know me also know that I’ll have no truck with alternative medicine or loopy new age therapy bollocks, no matter how well-intended the practitioners. (Though ‘practitioner’ dignifies them too much: let’s call them what they are. Quacks and pointless leeches on the gullible, and that’s putting it nicely. Hmmm, I wonder how aromatherapists are doing in the credit crunch?)

However, I’m not going to interfere with the right of alternatibe therapists to practice their loopy new age bollocks amongst themselves, provided and it hurt none. So if people are stupid enough to fall for the ‘enhanced’ water scam, then bigger fool them. I don’t care. Caveat emptor.

But then I came across this site for WongYong Pi-Water while idling about the internets, as one does, and the sheer venal dangerous stupidity of it made my jaw drop.

* Ideal water for your body : WonYong ?-Water(Vital Organic Water™) is the closest water to the living body water keeps lives in the body cells. Water is the main substance in metabolism, it is the key point to use or drink the water harmonizing to living bodies organism. The more close water to the living body fluid, the less losing of energy, in the metabolism, this adjusts disharmony, changes abnormal to normal. The water which makes our body activating maximum which all the ability, the living body has. It makes our body most efficient.

“WonYong Pi(?)-Water Ceramic Bag” is the WonYong Pi(?)-Water generator which is created by the only “WonYong Pi(?)-Ceramic Technology(Highly-energized ?-Ceramic)”.

Putting WonYong Pi(?)-Ceramic Bag into any drinking water makes WonYong Pi(?)-Water.
Enjoy miraculous effects of Pi(?)-Ceramic Bag!

.”WonYong Pi(?)-Water” use to treatment for patients
with hard-to-cure diseases & incurable disease.

WonYong Pi(?)-Water incorporates the best bio-science(bio-medical) technology that is expected to contribute toward the human’s ultimate goal of disease free, long life and extended life expectancy.

Nowhere on that site can I find what the WonYong ceramic bag or filter actually iconsists of or how it actually does this miraculous healing, but apparently it not only heals incurable diseases lickety-split but can halt global warming.

Oh hang on, could this be it?

WonYong ?-Water is induced from the highly energized state of infinitesimal amount of ferric ferrous salts that have excellent antioxidant effect(V.O.W. Concentrate & TARAMA Pi-Water Ceramics are core substances for life that have the strongest antioxidant action in the world.) of protecting human bodies from active oxygen(=free radicals) that causes various diseases and stresses(removing harmful active oxygen cause cancer, diabetic, hypertension and etc.), neutralization actions from harmful toxins(Controls oxidation reduction reaction ; detoxification action) and prevent rotting(inhibition of microbial growth, such as virus and bacteria) in the intestines. In addition, they have calcium antagonism, high vital activation energy(Life energy), small water molecule structure, contains abundance oxygen, equal pH to body(pH Balance), boost immune system, and bio memory and the ability to transfer biological information, etc. Its vital functions are the closest to those found in the living organic fluids. It contribute to maintain healthy bodies and youth by protecting the cells and DNA’s, protecting our body from harmful elements, and strengthen immune system, normalize body functions by cell activation.

*Boggle*

Surely people don’t believe this crap? Oh yeah. They do, don’t they?

Comment of The Day

At the Grauniad, on a critique by columnist Charles Arthur of a singularly asinine article by Kevin Kelly of Wired, in which Kelly compares the human brain to the internet:

CSClark

Comment No. 1194701
June 30 13:48

Taking it seriously for a moment why, in the numbers at the bottom, does he yoke all data devices together but not all human brains?

But it’s probably a mistake to take it seriously. The numbers are, I suppose, wowifying on their own, for the easily impressed, but to turn them into an argument for ‘We are headed toward a singular destiny: one vast computer composed of billions of chips and billions of brains, enveloping the planet in a single sphere of intelligence’ seems to me like finding it amazing that if you laid 36,000 Statues of Liberty on their end it would reach the moon and deciding on that basis that sculptors are actually working on a space programme.

See? The internet’s not even as clever as a lone Guardian commenter …

Comment of the Day: embryos are more important than Iraqis

The kiddie fiddling Catholic Church in Scotland has had its bishopic tights in a knot this week over government proposals to allow the creation of socalled human-animal embryo hybrids, demanding Catholic Labour MPs vote against it. And indeed a great many of those now feel moral qualms they’ve never encountered before. Says Chicken Yoghurt:

Look at some of the Catholic MPs and cabinet ministers getting in a lather about the little itty-bitty potential-babies. Des Browne: voted very strongly for the Iraq war. Ruth Kelly: voted very strongly for the Iraq war. Paul Murphy: voted very strongly for the Iraq war. Geraldine Smith: voted very strongly for the Iraq war.

Paul Goggins: voted very strongly for the Iraq war. Tommy McAvoy: voted very strongly for the Iraq war. Frank Roy: voted very strongly for the Iraq war. Tony Cunningham: voted very strongly for the Iraq war.

‘Nuff said.

Bonus video clip: Mitch Benn

The White Heat of Technology

Failed:

The only world-class astronomical facility based entirely within the UK is one of 29 science facilities at risk of closure as the physics funding council tightens its belt.

The Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network (Merlin) of radio telescopes at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester has been deemed a low priority by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, which needs to plug a £80m budget shortfall.

The network is an array of radio telescopes used to study galaxy formation and planetary evolution. It is the only ground-based facility in the world that can match the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope.

However, the STFC, which distributes around £678m a year in public funds for physics and research facilities, announced yesterday that Merlin and its upgrade e-Merlin are among the council’s lowest priority projects following a review of its science programme.

What the hell, it has nothing to do with the City, so it can’t be important. Besides, it can always be privatised or outsourced, just like the RAF’s Tornado repair facilities. (Both found via The Curmudgeon.)