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@trogluur@social.linux.pizza
2026-03-13 13:37:22

Why are all the "spiritual" people and other pseudo science quacks always talking about vibrations?
When I meet someone who believes that stuff I often try to ask them what it is that they believe is vibrating, but I've never gotten an answer.
I have a friend like this (I know they believe in astrology and telepathy, probably other things too), but I try to avoid this topic with them because as soon as we talk about anything pseudoscience-related it just turns into a…

@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu
2026-03-06 15:05:02

If you remove the light sabres, the telekinesis, and the pseudoscience fiction jibber-jabber, being a Jedi is one of the main fantasies that makes people fall in love with Star Wars. I don't know if it's just a male fantasy, though - choosing the good side against the darkness, showing restraint, selflessness, valour, and acute awareness of the living world. It seems to me it's about knowing right from wrong, be it being a Jedi, a princess, a smuggler, or a Dark Lord of the Sith,…

@david_colquhoun@mstdn.social
2026-03-23 09:34:13

Sad to see that University of Westminster has set up Centre for Nutraceuticals to promote the largely fraudulent "wellbeing" industry.
#quackery #nutribollocks #pseudoscience

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2026-02-25 20:07:07

As the "last falangista*" dies, fascism is again on the rise.
Just an example from Manchester.
In the nearby parliamentary constituency, a candidate with connections to race pseudoscience organisations, with Nazi pedigree, could win a crucial by-election.
*Falange= Franco's fascist party.
Muere a los 93 años el golpista Antonio Tejero, brazo ejecutor del 23F

@steve@s.yelvington.com
2026-02-16 12:47:54

Our supermarkets are peddlng a lot of junk food, no doubt, but when Bobby Brainstorm starts talking about "ultraprocessed" he's spewing pseudoscience. Put that creep on mute.