Comments on: The stupid, it burns… now with added “Feynman Chaser”

By: sujay1sukumar1

sujay1sukumar1 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:50:22 +0000

Why isn’t it a crime to misinform and mislead? I’m guessing ‘freedom of speech’ has something to do with why she still continues to swindle.
I am quite appalled that she has no remorse in advocating something that has probably harmed so many people. She is so removed from the consequences of her actions; clearly, she must be mental. Look at the things she mentions for instance:
1) Crossing out mass in E=mc^2.
2) Defining Disease as a transformation of energy
3) Everybody vibrating with a plant/animal/mineral.
4) Stephen Hawking(s?) giving homeopaths the string theory.
5) Collapsing the mass of the universe into a bowling ball – (does she mean volume? cause there is space between the nucleus and electrons, and space between atomic bonds? is that what she is saying???? wtf?)
6) Energy equals speed of light? F*cK!! When I was in 7th grade, we did atleast 30 problems where energy came out differently(I doubt she has attended basic science classes at all). Why do we have units like the Joule, if energy is a constant? WTF???

I recommend that she’d better dilute the poo of her neighbour’s dog (which ‘literaly’/'metaphorically’ pooped in her lawn) and consume it in small doses (without risking an OD) and hope that she can get through 7th grade science.

She is a curse on progressive thinking.

By: NickBarnes

NickBarnes — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:27:18 +0000

I let her poop in my head, literally.
Can we keep your predilections out of this?
Or did you mean “figuratively”?

Also, “Chad” is “chard”.

By: rptb1

rptb1 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:28:58 +0000

Now transcribed in its entirety here: http://chard.livejournal.com/56996.html

By: rptb1

rptb1 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:45:18 +0000

@ marcdraco: You have a transcript?! Please, I’d love to have it. Would you put it up somewhere? I wished I’d transcribed it. It was such slippery nonsense that I couldn’t hold it in my head.

By: Kijani

Kijani — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:23:25 +0000

landtuna -thanks for pointing me to the mirror site for the video clip! I don’t know why she was worried about the dog poop in her garden – there was no mass involved!

By: Robert Carnegie

Robert Carnegie — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:46:50 +0000

It looks as though “It burns” comes from fantasy gamers (Dungeons & Dragons and such) borrowing from [the Lord of the Rings], where Gollum squeals “It burns!” when exposed to sunlight, I think, and definitely when tied with elf-made ropes. I am now imagining Zombie Tolkien’s likely reaction to being asked if Gollum had an allergy to elf-hemp.

By: Fighting_Sailor

Fighting_Sailor — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:46:56 +0000

If I followed her correctly:

Homeopathy is akin to terrorism and she treats her patients to truth drugs and vibrators. Err…….

By: kingshiner

kingshiner — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:30:05 +0000

What does ‘The stupid, it burns’ mean?

By: marcdraco

marcdraco — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:30:57 +0000

So they pulled it. Shame. Not before I’d transcribed more than 1/2 of it complete with analysis. Doctor my ‘arris.

By: landtuna

landtuna — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:51:26 +0000

Mirror:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0c5yClip4o

By: ScottishNaturalist

ScottishNaturalist — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:08:05 +0000

Feynman is great.

Thanks for the chaser.

By: nicwig

nicwig — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:44:22 +0000

Can anyone tell me where I can see this video now that it’s been pulled from YouTube? I need a good laugh.

By: David Mingay

David Mingay — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:15:21 +0000

I’d set an analysis of her video as a “Fun Easter Science Quiz” for my school students on Facebook, so pulling it means that not only has she lost her entertainment value, but she now has no educational value either.

By: Rhysickle

Rhysickle — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:27:44 +0000

HAHAHA – the video’s been pulled down off youtube.

the power of humiliation!

By: Andysnat

Andysnat — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:50:07 +0000

I think that the idea of a Feynman Chaser is so good that I’ve posted one too.

There are a couple more around, so perhaps it will catch on.

By: edw

edw — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:54:51 +0000

I wrote out Feynman quote in the movie, I like this part:

“Because of the success of science, there is a kind of pseudoscience; social science is an example of a science that is not a science. They follow the forms, “you gathered data, you do so and so”, but they don’t get any laws, they haven’t gone anywhere, yet. Maybe some day they will, but is not very well developed. And on even more modane level, we have experts on everything, they sounds like sort of scientific expert, but they are not scientists, they make up something like: Food which are grown with fertilizer that is organic is better than food grown with fertilizer that is non-organic. Maybe true but it may not be true. But it hasn’t demonstrated one way or the other. When they sit there at the typewriter and make up all this stuff, they become an expert on organic food, and so on. There is all kind of myths and pseudo science all over the place. Now I might be quite wrong, maybe they do know all these things, but if you have the experience of how hard it is to find out to really know something, how careful you have to be about checking the experiments, how easy it is to make mistakes and fool yourself. I know how it is to know something, and therefore, I see how they get their information and I can’t believe they know anything, they haven’t done the checks necessary, and they haven’t done the care necessary. I have a great suspicion, that they don’t know what the stuff is, and that they are intimidating other people by it. I thinks so, I don’t know the world very well, but that is what I think”

By: Kerry

Kerry — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:13:27 +0000

Charlene got cold feet! Capascain perhaps? Interestingly that ointment containing quite a good amount of aforementioned hot stuff is sold as ‘homoeopathic’ medicine.

Cant find Charlene but found a great critique of her theorising on SHAMblog:
” The ever-witty Steve Salerno had this to contribute:

I have just one minor scientific footnote to add to what it says in the video: If you take this lady’s head, compress it to the size of a pin, and roll a bowling ball over it, the human race will not have lost any mass, energy, or value.”

By: mjs

mjs — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:14:24 +0000

i can’t believe it — Charlene’s video “is no longer available.” damn, it must have just been taken down…

you can find another one here, in which she demonstrates a nifty pair of goggles:
prism therapy

sadly, no mention of Einstein.

By: Junebug

Junebug — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:45:35 +0000

I was too bust laughing to listen to the whole thing but unless I imagined it I think she said that if she blew up her neighbor she just changed his energy? So from this we see that the amount of neighbor left after our little “thought experiment” (ie none, since she isn’t counting mass for whatever reason) is the same as the amount of medicine in the average homeopathic remedy (none again). Also(I’m just stuck on the bomb metaphor–has her neighbor seen this? I’d call the police if it were me) with her newly discovered laws of physics, wherein we can discount mass entirely, how exactly would the bomb then work? Assuming all of the mass in the universe has been squeezed into a bowling ball, whatever can a bomb do that is worse than this?

By: LazyLabTech

LazyLabTech — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:06:19 +0000

For anyone seeing the Feynman vid for the first time, I can recommend the book “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out”. Contains a transcript of this program as well as other Feynman bits and pieces, such as the nanotech talk “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” and a great lecture on “Cargo Cult Science”.

Not too technical and highly readable, it was my introduction to him.

44:00 “I have the advantage …. I know what it means to know something”