Randi and others have written many times on the outrageous claims about facilitated communication (FC). This month, we have another court decision that provides some relief and another nail in the coffin for this communication process that has not been shown to work. This particular court decision, a civil case, was a smack down to police, prosecutors and a school. It has reminded us how false beliefs can be a dangerous and manipulative tool in court.
On Sunday, we posted Food Babe: Serving up misinformation and rancid advice by Guy Chapman. We have received some feedback on one point related to craft beer:
"She’d have done the public a much greater service by pointing them to better quality craft-brewed beers, which are not only less likely to be mass produced using chemicals, but also taste much better and support family firms." The author has responded to those comments. Thank you for your comments, it's been a very popular article! Vani Hari sure is a controversial figure and we are pleased to have sparked discussion and intelligent criticism of her claims. Also note that it was the Editor, not Mr. Chapman, who added the graphics to the story. It appears that one may be a photoshop job ("kemicles"). I did assume this when I saw it but I was attempting a visual statement that Hari tends to also abuse and misuse some facts in her work. I apologize that it may have been misinterpreted. - Editor |
SWIFT is named after Jonathan Swift, the author of Gulliver's Travels. In the book, Gulliver encounters among other things a floating island inhabited by spaced-out scientists and philosophers who hardly deal with reality. Swift was among the first to launch well-designed critiques against the flummery - political, philosophical, and scientific - of his time, a tradition that we hope to maintain at The James Randi Foundation.
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