Theories?

[Thorin Stoutfoot]

Check out the CSICOPs

http://www.csicop.org/

Lots of debunking of stuff. Try doing a search on say, qigong. Very entertaining, and a good site to look at. Try typing Uri Geller into the search engine.

 

[Danzilla]

The world is round...or is it flat...?

 

[Agback]

G'day

A decent encyclopaedia should give you articles on Phlogiston Theory and the Theory of the Four Humours. It might also be a good idea to look up Paracelsus and Dr John Dee.

Regards,



Agback

 

[WayneLigon]

Any religion
Cold Fusion
Gaia Hypothesis
Hollow Earth
Perpetual motion machines (or anything under the catagory 'Free Energy')
'Fortean' events, such as rains of strange objects.
Spontaneous combustion
Bi-location (appearing in two different places at the same time)
Ghosts
Aquatic Ape theory
Orgone energy
'Magnetic' therapy
Homeopathy
Possession
Various alternative scientific theories; good clearinghouse:
Alternative Science
Anything about Tesla
The 'Taos Hum'
Rod sightings
Repressed or 'recovered' Memory
Parapsychology FAQ

 

[Umbran]

One should hesitate to put the "Gaia Hypotesis" on this list. In it's essence, it's the idea that in some ways one can treat the planet as an organism, with many interrelated, interlinked mechanisms and reactions that help keep it balanced and running. While taking it as literal truth is a debatable step, it's usefulness as analogy is still fairly sound.

 

[Gunslinger]

Phantom limb pain was shown to be cured through the use of a mirror box. The patient sticks the limb they do have into the box, and does stuff like clenching and unclenching. They see the reflection in the mirror, and it looks like their other limb is doing the same. Thus the eyes trick the brain, and the pain stops.

 

[CmdrSam]

Phlogiston.

 

[Tonguez]

Acupuncture does have scientific validity as a form of massage

Homeopathy also has some scientific validity if viewed purely as 'Herbal remedies' - science just goes about isolating the active ingredient

Ghosts etc have not actually been disproved (they just have not been proved)

 

[Zappo]

spontaneous generation....

Huh? That's a proven scientific fact. You see, the universe expands constantly, right? So, to maintain density, new matter is constantly created. Most of that is hydrogen, but something heavier appears every now and then. Ever wondered why you always clean dust even though noone puts it back on the cupboard? Or why you're cleaning your room and you keep finding trinkets which you can't remember ever seeing? That's because they didn't exist until some days ago.

There's a theory stating that this applies to hard disk files too (ever found in the recesses of a forgotten partition a directory named "sjhv32" with a DOS program with no documentation that apparently does nothing save displaying an error message?).

 

[WayneLigon]

alphabiotics
angel therapy
applied kinesiology
aromatherapy
astrotherapy
aura therapy
Ayurvedic medicine
Bach's flower therapy
bioharmonics
chelation therapy
chiropractic
coning (ear candling)
craniosacral therapy
dermo-optical perception
Dianetics
DHEA
Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR)
facilitated communication
holistic medicine
hypnosis
inedia (breatharianism)
iridology
joy touch
Kirlian photography
macrobiotics
naturopathy
Near-death/Out-of-Body experiences
neurolinguistic programming
osteopathy
palmistry
phrenology
prayer
psychic photography
psychic surgery
reflexology
reiki
trepanation
urine therapy (You really don't want to know what this entails)

Homeopathy is a system of medical treatment based on the use of minute quantities of remedies that in massive doses produce effects similar to those of the disease being treated.