"Guidelines issued by the committee on doctrine at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops warn healthcare workers and chaplains that the therapy "lacks scientific credibility" and could expose people to "malevolent forces"."

"The Committee for Freedom of Choice in Medicine (CFCM) was the political arm of several interlocking corporations that promoted and/or marketed questionable remedies for cancer and other serious diseases. It also worked to abolish federal and state laws intended to protect consumers in the health marketplace"

"Dude homeopathy totally gives me panic attacks because living in a world made unpredictable by magic puts me on edge. I prefer to live in the universe where the theory of gravity isn't just a theory and Deepak Chopra is an idiot. Dude seriously you think a universe where RECENT WORLD EVENTS are chaotic is bad what about one where RECENT WORLD PHYSICS is unpredictable and HOMEOPATHY WORKS. Argh."

Blue Shield of California recognizes that we're anxious and recommends... homeopathy.

"Matt Todd, who campaigns against EMFs, said that residents had complained that chakras and ley lines are being disrupted. "They believe positive energy flows are being disturbed," he said. " Also: pyramid orgone generators. Yes, really.

"But I also believe that in order to be successful in the long term the skeptical community must have the mainstream scientific community as an ally. In fact, we would do well to merge, at least to a degree. Skepticism is science, and all scientists should be skeptics. The skeptical community can teach the scientific community how to deal with dangerous pseudoscience. And scientists should embrace and support more fully those who seek to popularize their work and their profession."

"Why do people see faces in nature, interpret window stains as human figures, hear voices in random sounds generated by electronic devices or find conspiracies in the daily news? ... We have no error-detection governor to modulate the pattern-recognition engine. (Thus the need for science with its self-correcting mechanisms of replication and peer review.)"

"The Vatican released a document Thursday outlining the psychological evaluation seminaries may use to screen candidates with homosexual tendencies as well as other psychological disorders from the priesthood. "

"unless... those who possess it can somehow recognize one another, find that trait attractive and be more likely to partner and produce offspring who themselves survive to reproductive maturity, this whole argument quickly becomes meaningless."

In case you entertain any notions of taking Dvorsky or SIAI seriously: "A third solution, one that seems ludicrous at first glance, is that the slow sensory information is referred backwards in time from the near future to match the fast information."

"See, Michael Medved wants to set us all straight about the so-called evils of American slavery."

"Rushton and Jensen are anything but a new wave of scholars come to shed light on a heretofore intractable problem, as Saletan presents them. On the contrary, they have spent nearly a century combined harping on the same theme... black racial inferiority"

"Peter Braude, professor of Ob & Gyn, from London's King's College and Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, said: "This is all hypothesis and hype. This is such a long way off. I can see no reason why you would need to collect your own menstrual fluid.""

"Not one of Cameron's anti-gay studies has been published in a respected scientific journal... Instead, Cameron... publishing his studies in Psychological Reports [which] will publish practically anything for $27.50 per page."

"_There Goes the Science Bit_, a collection of conversations between early-career scientists and the purveyors of pseudoscience. ... the dossier is a startling, shocking, and often humourous expose of the lack of science behind everyday claims."

"Say nothing. Start carefully annotated files. Resist the impulse to try to stifle the discourse with so-far bogus cries of racism. ... Wait. Watch. Study. Amass evidence for some very specific, very well timed indictments."

"Is it petty to take pleasure in this? No. McKeith is a menace to the public understanding of science. She seems to misunderstand not nuances, but the most basic aspects of biology - things that a 14-year-old could put her straight on."

"One will not find Mr. de Grey in the lab hovering over petri dishes or test tubes. ... he reads the literature and searches for connections that a specialist may have missed."

"No, the reason I don't want to let Watson go quietly is that he didn't really clean up his original comments. ... His revisions... Scientifically, they say nothing and retract nothing. All they do is make racism harder to identify, scrutinize, and test."

"Popular support for eugenics among the...intelligentsia had very little to do with its dubious scientific credentials. Its wellsprings were linked to middle- and upper-class anxiety concerning burgeoning populations of the poor and waves of immigration."

"It would be fascinating and useful to know what the institutions and mechanisms are which lead some to the production of reliable knowledge, and others to the production of eccentric crap, and what the intermediate stages are."

"In 2000 Watson shocked an audience at the University of California, Berkeley, when he advanced his theory about a link between skin colour and sex drive. ... "That's why you have Latin lovers," he said, according to people who attended the lecture."

"[Watson] said he hoped that everyone was equal, but countered that “people who have to deal with black employees find this not true”."

"Rigorously practice the principle of symmetrical skepticism. Assume goodwill, but also assume that everything people tell you is wrong until you have looked it up for yourself, no matter how much you may agree with your source of information"

"Remember that really important people with really important ideas don't have time for grammar or spelling. Also try interesting use of punctuation!!!!, CAPITALization and text color. When you EMPHASIZE things people will inevitably take your more serious

"An increasing number of academics - many of whom have helped edit the resource to maintain informal quality control - are concerned that Wikipedia is becoming a stronghold for cranks"

"Why would these events be closed to the media? Is Brownback afraid that the media might find out that Barton’s academic credentials are limited to a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oral Roberts University ...?"

Andrew Schlafly is (or was) general counsel for the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.

"the illegal-alien report, written by Madeleine Pelner Cosman... is chock full of hardline conservative cites, including books by Michelle Malkin and former WND writer... Jon Dougherty and articles by Phyllis Schlafly and Tom DeWeese."

Lou Dobbs cites the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. "Dobbs' insistence on standing "100 percent behind" his show's false claim... is as troubling as the entrée to a mass of viewers he has given a documented racist crank."

"Articles published in the journal have argued... that "humanists" have conspired to replace the "creation religion of Jehovah" with evolution, that HIV does not cause AIDS, and that the "gay male lifestyle" shortens life expectancy by 20 years."

Gilligan: "Not only did you take my research out of context, you did so without my knowledge to support discriminatory goals that I do not agree with. What you wrote was not truthful..."

"Louann Brizendine, psychiatrist and author of the much-hyped _The Female Brain_, admits in the most recent issue of the NY Times Magazine that she's not a fan of placebo-controlled studies. ... Turns out, Brizendine is not a fan of fact-checking either."

Documents pro-life social movement organizations' growing use of pseudoscientific arguments that abortion causes severe harm to women. Note especially the substantial subsidies to "post-abortion syndrome" pseudoscientific research.

"there simply isn't enough truth to go around. So, we get bullshit instead. ... In choosing guests to appear on cable news, bookers will almost always choose a glib ignoramus over an expert who can't talk in clipped sentences."

See also, especially, H. G. Frankfurt's _On Bullshit_. "The new world needs meta-experts to sort out what it all means. “The social value of the synthesizer has grown,” Mr. Gladwell said. “ … So it’s made my life better.” "

Medved: "it’s obvious (and statistically provable) that male-female connections are vastly more likely to produce lasting consequences" Mixter:"You say it's statistically provable? Then prove it. Where are your citations? Cough 'em up!"

"yet another author drawing on cognitive neuroscience, behavioral psychology & economics in an attempt to make readers feel that they are in control of their lives. ...straight out of the Malcolm Gladwell school of pseudo-scientific,feel-good nonsense"

"Last night on Hannity and Colmes, Buchanan explained that he’s motivated by his desire to keep the country overwhelmingly white. ... In his book, Buchanan supports the idea that whites are genetically superior to minorities."

"An hour after he spoke to AFP, a rocket fired from Lebanon landed in the town of Mghar, just a few kilometres (miles) from the hotel, and killed a 15-year-old Arab Israeli girl."

"Kristol and his colleagues may worry that once this one thread is pulled from the fabric of religious belief, perhaps the whole will become unraveled, with grave social consequences."

"When people find that they're not working to their full potential; when they know that they could be producing more but in fact they're producing less; when they know they're smarter than their output shows ..." so, uh, everyone, basically

link to 10 key indicators

a right proper dismissal of the Edge's silly, trite, mediocrity-elevating, horrifically overhyped poll