When Cut And Paste Goes Horribly Wrong ... Ha Ha Ha

[Dr Adequate]

Plagiarism is rife among New Age woos. What's worse, they don't even read what they cut and paste. Some of you may remember the infamous case of Demosthenes the Alchemist God (http://www.crystalinks.com/demosthenes2.html), in which a (published) woowoo author cut and pasted her information on this character from the rules of a role-playing game.

Could anything be more unfortunate? Well, perhaps. If the thieves behind the "Spiritual Healing Resource Library" (http://www.spiritual-healing.co.uk/library/r01spirituality/aura/main.htm) had read the article they stole on "auras" beyond the first few lines:

An aura, according to New Age metaphysics, is a colored outline, or set of contiguous outlines, allegedly emanating from the surface of an object.
... then they would have noticed that the Skeptic's Dictionary is not endorsing their views.

Ha ha ha ha ha ...

[De_Bunk]

Just more proof that the 'believers' haven't the faintest idea what they are talking about...

Let alone informing anyone else about it...



Good call...:D


DB

[J. Arthur Hastur]

Skeptics define aura better than actual new age practitioners? That means something.

[The_Fire]

ROFLOL!!!!!:roll::dig:

[gtc]

Call him and let him know.

http://www.thewellsclinic.co.uk/index.htm

Its a quarter to 5 in the morning, so maybe best to wait till, say, 2 in the morning tomorrow.

[Zep]

Erm, no, I wouldn't tell him a thing about it. Instead, I'd ride this horse for all it's worth! Perhaps...make sure it got into a major tabloid newspaper complete with an appropriate and pro-skeptic headline? And a full skeptical article on "energy fields" debunked by a 9yo girl! (http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/279/13/1005)

[thatguywhojuggles]

I can't believe they can get away with plagerism like that!

[MRC_Hans]

Woos + Google is an interesting combination. An extreme example is our wee Kumar, who has recently formed a unified theory of the science of homeopathy, patched together from various snips he has googled. They don't support his ideas, some of them even contradict them, but since Kumar doesn't understand half the words in them anyway, who cares? Certainly not Kumar :roll:!

Hans

[monoman]

Woos + Google is an interesting combination.
Hans

Woogles

[Zep]

I can't believe they can get away with plagerism like that!Tick. Add it to the list of stuff that gets written up about this twerp.

Actually, a respected magazine might be a better target vehicle - perhaps Readers Digest as a feature article? (Yeah, it's low-brow, but it has a WHACKING circulation!)

[Skeptical Greg]

WooglesGoowoos ?:D

[fishbait]

More woo sites with the exact same paste job:

http://www.dhyansanjivani.org/auras.asp

http://www.mardigraspsychics.com/modules.php?name=News&file=categories&op=newindex&catid=8

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

That's precious! Thanks, Dr. A.

Not a living brain among 'em ...

~~ Paul

[TimmyBerry]

This is highly amusing. :D

[Mojo]

I can't believe they can get away with plagerism like that!I can't believe they can get away with stupidity like that!

[Luke T.]

More woo sites with the exact same paste job:

http://www.dhyansanjivani.org/auras.asp

http://www.mardigraspsychics.com/modules.php?name=News&file=categories&op=newindex&catid=8


That's amazing.

[Luke T.]

Wow.

http://www.psychicjive.com/auras.html

http://www.occult.be/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=61&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

[Luke T.]

Aura camera (http://www.kirlian.org/aura.htm)

Kirlian camera (http://www.kirlian.org/kirlian_camera.htm) that is actually a polaroid camera, for $745.00.

[Luke T.]

Aura goggles are a unique invention that allow the wearer to see people’s spiritual auras. "They’re like a mood ring you wear on your face," said Schwitzgebel. They play a key part in what has become known as the "VKR Method."
Schwitzgebel: "As the rest of the band plays on-stage at a gig, a designated Aura Goggler from VKR stands in the wings unnoticed and looks at the audience through the goggles. By ‘reading’ their auras, we can determine if they are enjoying the music."

Schwitzgebel notes most audience members at a VKR show look "greenish" when viewed through the goggles,

"Of course, they tend to look that way with or without the goggles," he adds.

"Aura goggling is a new, spiritual kind of market research," says Schwitzgebel, "and VKR was the first band anywhere to use it. The goggles could have changed the music business as we know it. In fact, the feedback we collected from one test audience convinced us to rewrite a song about trench mouth into one about cryogenics. The rest is history!"

http://www.augustgames.com/VKR/vkrscrapbook.html

You just can't make this stuff up. :D

"the feedback we collected from one test audience convinced us to rewrite a song about trench mouth into one about cryogenics"

Priceless.

[ClusterBoy]

The psychicjive link is excellent.
"The problem is, what color reflects what condition? There is no consensus on what the colors mean"
Followed 2 paragraphs later by the definitive meaning of 12 different colours. This is great