This. A million times yes. If I can provide reality to one person who otherwise would have been scammed out of money the I did a good deed.
Keep your money folks. Flim-flam artists have been pitching alternative healing for ever.

Not to mention the massive percentage of Americans that do believe in a 6000 year old Earth.

You missed the point by a country mile.

Feel intellectually superior?

No.

But shit like this perpetuates unscientific thinking and holds us back. It's kind of funny that usually the people I see talking and doing things like this are usually the first to attack things like organized religion. They are functionally equivalent.

Whenever you get the urge to shell out money to get your energy realigned with some homeopathic chakra crystals or whatever, instead just ask yourself: What would Scully do?

I'm pretty damn sure they're all ripping you off. Some just believe they aren't.

I'm a judgmental bitch so part of me wants to scream, "This is some ridiculous faux-hippie fucking nonsense for people with too much money...giving that money to charity will make you feel better about yourself, too, dummy." But, of course, it's really important to spend money on some shit that makes you happy, even…

"Maybe we all DO have a life force, called qi, or chi or prana, and maybe that force DOES run through pathways, called meridians, and maybe it really DOES HAVE centers, called chakras. And maybe all the stuff you experience and think and feel and dwell on can make those things can get very out of order. And maybe…

Nope, same placebo effect.

Because who wouldn't want to marry someone who wears Nazi regalia for fun?

That this is the top response to an article like this is a perfect example of how the Jezebel community truly exists at the very bottom of the faux-feminist garbage pile.

:-/ barfotron

NOPE. I don't need this tiresome "accountability for every tiny little nuance and action internet dissect it to death-ism" invading my personal life too. I get enough of it on the web, thanks. Perhaps I could just hire someone to follow me around 24/7 to aggressively and smugly remind me when I'm not checking my…

So, it's OK to promote blind faith in stuff, as long as it's their stuff. Got it.

No! This oversaturation is the only thing that will eventually make it uncool and kill it!

If I was a white guy marginally interested in being an ally and then I read something like what you wrote, I would think "fuck it, why even try?"

So if my husband and I work at the same place at the same time doing the same job and we have the same years' experience in our careers, yet he gets paid more, it shouldn't matter to me (or gender wage gap studies) because we both contribute to the household evenly (I guess I'm making up for my lack of wages with…

I had a feeling he would appear. He sure knows A LOT about porn for someone who hates it (heck, last time he cited a scene that was released two weeks prior).

Is there a way to block comments? Because I would love to pretend that the world is a nicer place, one in which you don't exist.

. . .and? I know very, very few people who would claim that gender identity and roles are entirely social. It's what we do with those tendencies, and how we encourage and discourage certain behaviors in our children.