Thank you HerbertKane178, reading your notification was enough to make me put down my Pina Colada and move away from the pool.
The questions before us is, is the Pineapple King the Scientist's Scientist? Or in other words, is there any science in Universal 'Medicine'? The short answer is don't make me laugh. The longer answer, which is actually not that much longer, is definitively and definitely NO!
So while the travelling Snake Oil Salesman can make all sorts of claims to science and try to authorise and legitimise the money-making machine as being scientific it is demonstrably not science. How can we be so sure? Isn't this debatable? No, not at all. This is because science is defined in terms of its scientific method. And while there are all sorts of debates about many aspects of the nature of what counts as scientific method (e.g. positivism vs feminism) there is universal agreement that a necessary condition for science is TRANSPARENT CRITICAL PEER REVIEW. In other words, a necessary condition for anything to be claimed as science is that the research and the research findings need to go under the fine critical microscope of the world's community of scientists and any other interested stakeholder.
This is not what happens with the Pineapple King's palava. On the contrary it appears any critique is immediately met with personal vilification, assaults in the street, threatening legal letters and court suits.It also seems that Local newspapers for example can not publish criticism because they have become highly wary of being accosted in their car parks by mobs of aggressive UMers, pillorying them for publicly questioning the second coming of the Goonelabah Christ. Can you imagine if a scientist published a critique of another scientist's work only to be met with a law suit or a gang of puppets turning up at their place of work being threatening and abusive? No? You can't imagine that? Well that's precisely why the Snake Oil salesman isn't a scientist and why UMer palava isn't scientific.
And that's before we even go into the objective fact that the Snake Oil salesman doesn't actually transparently report any evidence. For example, how many followers has he healed and how many followers have died regardless of the snake oil? Never published, doesn't happen! Of course there was that one laughable attempt of scientific nonsense where they 'scientifically' conducted pre and post tests on 'subjects' to, guess what?, prove the validity of Cranio-sacral pulse treatment (apparently, guess which egotist has the highest Cranio-sacral pulse ever? Need a clue? Well he's also the Philospher's Philosopher, the Healer's Healer, the greatest lover of all time and ... well you get the picture). The fact that the subjects were all universal medicine puppets didn't seem to bother the Goonellabah 'Scientist's' scientific critical reflection one bit. Nor the fact that there was no scientific control. Of course a control would be hard to produce here because you would probably need some other self-appointed Svengali to conduct their own 'scientific' test in similar circumstances. And if there's one thing we know is that these snake oil prophets don't like getting together. So I guess that is out the question. Mind you, wouldn't that be a delight to watch a number of different Svengalis' and their cadre's of 'true' followers get together to have it out once and for all about who was the 'real' Messiah? I'd pay good money to watch that!
But anyway, getting back to the 'science' of Cranio-sacral treatment. This kind of ridiculous scientific mockery is the inevitable result of zealotry. You see, Science starts off with the position that we don't and probably can't know the truth of reality. The best we can hope for is to come up with explanations that get us closer to describing that reality. So the starting point is that this ISN'T the absolute truth its just possibly a more accurate description than what we had before. So there's a real humility in that. This is absolutely antithetical to the ridiculous scientific posturing coming from the poorly educated Puppet Master, which has a STARTING point that they already know the truth. They just have to convince you too! Because that's what you do when you have the truth. And because that's not actually scientifically possible they then have to use anything or anyone, especially highly educated yet emotionally vulnerable academics (as evidenced by the court case of Dr Kim. More of them to come in the future I'm sure) to shore up that subjective conviction. This of course includes self-contradictory claims of science, or, just as inevitably, it includes persecuting anyone who says otherwise (because by definition if they have the truth then anyone critiquing that must either be (a) ignorant (in which case we have some snake oil for them) or (b) willful blasphemers, evil, detractors (sound familiar?). The point is that all of this zealotry is by definition not scientific.
So we're back to the short answer. Is the Pineapple King, or any of those poor lost souls selling the snake oil, scientific? Don't make me laugh.
Thanks for reading this folks. The next subject will address the question, is there anything valuable in UM palava or is it just ethically, morally and legally corrupt?
The questions before us is, is the Pineapple King the Scientist's Scientist? Or in other words, is there any science in Universal 'Medicine'? The short answer is don't make me laugh. The longer answer, which is actually not that much longer, is definitively and definitely NO!
So while the travelling Snake Oil Salesman can make all sorts of claims to science and try to authorise and legitimise the money-making machine as being scientific it is demonstrably not science. How can we be so sure? Isn't this debatable? No, not at all. This is because science is defined in terms of its scientific method. And while there are all sorts of debates about many aspects of the nature of what counts as scientific method (e.g. positivism vs feminism) there is universal agreement that a necessary condition for science is TRANSPARENT CRITICAL PEER REVIEW. In other words, a necessary condition for anything to be claimed as science is that the research and the research findings need to go under the fine critical microscope of the world's community of scientists and any other interested stakeholder.
This is not what happens with the Pineapple King's palava. On the contrary it appears any critique is immediately met with personal vilification, assaults in the street, threatening legal letters and court suits.It also seems that Local newspapers for example can not publish criticism because they have become highly wary of being accosted in their car parks by mobs of aggressive UMers, pillorying them for publicly questioning the second coming of the Goonelabah Christ. Can you imagine if a scientist published a critique of another scientist's work only to be met with a law suit or a gang of puppets turning up at their place of work being threatening and abusive? No? You can't imagine that? Well that's precisely why the Snake Oil salesman isn't a scientist and why UMer palava isn't scientific.
And that's before we even go into the objective fact that the Snake Oil salesman doesn't actually transparently report any evidence. For example, how many followers has he healed and how many followers have died regardless of the snake oil? Never published, doesn't happen! Of course there was that one laughable attempt of scientific nonsense where they 'scientifically' conducted pre and post tests on 'subjects' to, guess what?, prove the validity of Cranio-sacral pulse treatment (apparently, guess which egotist has the highest Cranio-sacral pulse ever? Need a clue? Well he's also the Philospher's Philosopher, the Healer's Healer, the greatest lover of all time and ... well you get the picture). The fact that the subjects were all universal medicine puppets didn't seem to bother the Goonellabah 'Scientist's' scientific critical reflection one bit. Nor the fact that there was no scientific control. Of course a control would be hard to produce here because you would probably need some other self-appointed Svengali to conduct their own 'scientific' test in similar circumstances. And if there's one thing we know is that these snake oil prophets don't like getting together. So I guess that is out the question. Mind you, wouldn't that be a delight to watch a number of different Svengalis' and their cadre's of 'true' followers get together to have it out once and for all about who was the 'real' Messiah? I'd pay good money to watch that!
But anyway, getting back to the 'science' of Cranio-sacral treatment. This kind of ridiculous scientific mockery is the inevitable result of zealotry. You see, Science starts off with the position that we don't and probably can't know the truth of reality. The best we can hope for is to come up with explanations that get us closer to describing that reality. So the starting point is that this ISN'T the absolute truth its just possibly a more accurate description than what we had before. So there's a real humility in that. This is absolutely antithetical to the ridiculous scientific posturing coming from the poorly educated Puppet Master, which has a STARTING point that they already know the truth. They just have to convince you too! Because that's what you do when you have the truth. And because that's not actually scientifically possible they then have to use anything or anyone, especially highly educated yet emotionally vulnerable academics (as evidenced by the court case of Dr Kim. More of them to come in the future I'm sure) to shore up that subjective conviction. This of course includes self-contradictory claims of science, or, just as inevitably, it includes persecuting anyone who says otherwise (because by definition if they have the truth then anyone critiquing that must either be (a) ignorant (in which case we have some snake oil for them) or (b) willful blasphemers, evil, detractors (sound familiar?). The point is that all of this zealotry is by definition not scientific.
So we're back to the short answer. Is the Pineapple King, or any of those poor lost souls selling the snake oil, scientific? Don't make me laugh.
Thanks for reading this folks. The next subject will address the question, is there anything valuable in UM palava or is it just ethically, morally and legally corrupt?