I'm not sure what the practical outcome of this will be, but the quantum woo community is going to have a field day with it. Ugh!
“Entangle yourself to your successful universe”
“Science proves life is quantum”
“What entanglement to life proves about our spiritual path”
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It’s the difference between seeing the Bible as inspirational and believing that the earth is literally 6000 old and Christ Is Coming Back Soon; take this course to prepare to Meet Him.
If you compromise on truth in order to further your goals, you’re just priming people to be susceptible to conspiracy theories and other actually harmful untruthful ideas like that Bill Gates literally is putting nanochips inside vaccines.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that most of my hippie friends seem to have turned antivaxx on unscientific grounds lately.
In some cases,absolutely! If the results of such bending of meaning weren't actively harmful (eg Vaccine denialism) perhaps it could be ignored.
Imagine if there were coding boot camps that were entirely based on developing a good vibe with the computer, and didn’t involve learning about how to write code at all. People go in, “learn” something, but then they try to get a coding job and fall flat on their face because they don’t actually know anything. This is exactly the state of quantum physics re: the general public. I would guess as a scientist it would get demoralizing.
From my experience the industry is sorely lacking people who have developed a good vibe with the computer and we can probably trace the root cause of a lot of the major systemic issues we see to that. This boot camp sounds great.
Not quite zen cracking, but that's getting closer to the old +ORC ideology.
If not, why not?
It's the science equivalent of labeling someone a "conspiracy nut" in politics, where CIA manipulation of the media (a real thing with plenty of evidence) gets bucketed with reptilian overlords to unfairly denigrate the former valid theory.
There is absolutely a ruling class with personal interest in the status quo within the scientific community that applies unthinking skepticism to perfectly valid ideas to protect their own agendas. I'd recommend listening to Dr. Avi Loeb's thoughts on this.
This is what makes it so effective of a term, as it accurately describes the activities, behaviors, and ideologies to which it is applied!
> This is no different from McCarthyism
What US Government official are blacklisting actors, politicians, and public officials for practicing new age-ism analogously to what McCarthy did for real and alleged communist sympathizers? None of note. And if there is legislation introduced that bans non-harming practices of belief, let us join arms and fight it together.
In case you've read more into my comment or this chain, here is a recap:
Here is what you said:
>>>> The term "woo" is so condescending and useless.
Here is what I said:
>>> This is what makes it so effective of a term, as it accurately describes the activities, behaviors, and ideologies to which it is applied!
Note:
- No "they"
- No calls for persecution
What you read in my comment is simply an identification that the term "woo" accurately describes people who misapply attributes of quantum behavior to new age claims (and those who accept such attribution), as it is apt as one that describes the uselessness and base superstitiousness of such behavior, activities, and supporting ideologies.
I seriously doubt any quantum mysticism is true, and I'm happy to defer to the physicists to get my woo from QM as in this experiment.
One good reason for not lumping ORR in with crystal healing (beyond the rigor and erudition applied to the theories) is that ORR addresses what most would consider a real mystery in our understanding of the mind (however you define that), while crystal healing addresses something demonstrably false.
I'll still contend there's some quantum woo to ORR, but for that reason it's been a brave attempt to further scientific knowledge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reducti...