What are you looking for? Any objections about why a topic ought not to be in as many/few categories?
Do you have any opinions on the subject?
The link is to an image that lists Conspiracy, Quakery, Religion, Pseudosicience, and Paranormal.
Please flesh out the debate topic. A title and link is not sufficient.
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It’s ridiculous: Can’t they see that that pig extracts in soft drinks is clearly part of the paranormal???
They really have to redo this thing–from scratch.
“The Smurfs”?
Surely there must be some conspiracy quackery that’s not pseudoscience but is at least one of religion or paranormal, to fill in those three blank areas.
“Jesuits sank the Titanic” currently in the intersection paranormal/ conspiracy/ religion. I don’t see what’s paranormal about it. Make it conspiracy/ religion.
Edit - no that wouldn’t be quackery either. Sorry.
ISTM that religion is a subset of pseudoscience (theology obviously lays claim to being a science; otherwise why does its name end in “ology?”)
Is there a specific listing you disagree with?
Maybe they used telepathy to do it. Then again, they believe in God–a supernatural Being. What the hell, just push everything into the middle.
Your OP inspired me to evaluate every single claim on the chart, all 451 of them, and I’ve found they are all perfect.
tl;dr, I agree!
Broadly, yes. I’d agree that most, if not all of the stuff in there I’d term irrational nonsense and they seem to be well suited to their given place in the Venn diagram.
I’d be open to debating their exact placing though I don’t expect we’ll agree on absolutely every case.
Democracy?
Where’s the conspiracy in the Indigo Children movement?
I haven’t really delved into it but don’t a lot of “indigo children” often have some other medical diagnosis like ADHD or autism? I could definitely see some Big Pharma conspiracies floating around stuff like that.
+1
I can’t evaluate them all, but I will say that I discovered Shiatsu massage this year and got fantastic results. 3 sessions resulted in relieving 3 chronic problems, one of them seemingly permanently and the others pretty durably, if not perfectly.
Now, is the masseuse really manipulating my chi? I can’t say I understand what that even means, but have decided to just shrug about that one, give her the best Yelp review I can, and go back every once in awhile.
Go ahead and PM me if you wish to reopen the thread with an actual debate topic.
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