Saturday, July 15, 2006
Energy healing — a con artist's gift or a true mind over matter experience?
I managed to catch the ABC hour-long special report on Adam, the young energy healer in Vancouver B.C. I was watching what I assumed would be an unbiased report on the scientific proof behind energy healing as well as hearing about the success rates --both sides of the statistics -- of Adam's students.
What I ended up watching seemed to be another biased and well-edited version of what ABC wanted us to believe energy healing is all about — fraud, trickery, and "magic" that doesn't work.
Do you think that Adam should have agreed to do this show? In the past, he has been criticized for not agreeing to allow reporters in. The media then claimed he must be a fraud or else he wouldn't be afraid to let them in.
Now he let them in, and they left the viewers with the impression that he is not all he claims to be. But what exactly do they think he claims to be doing? Have they read his books? Did they listen to what he says in his workshops?
Is that just another mass media way of manipulating the people to think what they tell them to think?
What's your opinion?
Keep rethinking everything.
What I ended up watching seemed to be another biased and well-edited version of what ABC wanted us to believe energy healing is all about — fraud, trickery, and "magic" that doesn't work.
Do you think that Adam should have agreed to do this show? In the past, he has been criticized for not agreeing to allow reporters in. The media then claimed he must be a fraud or else he wouldn't be afraid to let them in.
Now he let them in, and they left the viewers with the impression that he is not all he claims to be. But what exactly do they think he claims to be doing? Have they read his books? Did they listen to what he says in his workshops?
Is that just another mass media way of manipulating the people to think what they tell them to think?
What's your opinion?
Keep rethinking everything.
Friday, July 14, 2006
What is the real source of the latest health and nutrition information?
We hear something new almost everyday with regards to diet or health or nutrition. Remember when eating eggs was harmful to your health? Now, "sources report" that eating up to 7 eggs a week should pose no significant health risk.
So who is researching this information in the first place?
I was intrigued to find out that the original recommended food groups and servings by the government did not include dairy as a food group. So who added it on there? Would you be surprised to hear that it was the dairy farmers that had something to do with it?
What else are we taking as unbiased scientific information that is really information fed to us by a specific group that can financially benefit from us believing what they say?
What do you think about the mass media fed "scientific" data guiding us on our yo-yo life of health and nutrition?
Keep rethinking everything.
So who is researching this information in the first place?
I was intrigued to find out that the original recommended food groups and servings by the government did not include dairy as a food group. So who added it on there? Would you be surprised to hear that it was the dairy farmers that had something to do with it?
What else are we taking as unbiased scientific information that is really information fed to us by a specific group that can financially benefit from us believing what they say?
What do you think about the mass media fed "scientific" data guiding us on our yo-yo life of health and nutrition?
Keep rethinking everything.
