Rebecca Watson

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• Commented on Skepchick: Reiki Now Too Crazy For Catholics
  "Of those references, you will find about 160 clinical trials, most of which show that Reiki has a measurable effect on illness." Oh really? Do most of them show that reiki has a statistically significant effect that differs from placebos?...
• Posted Skepchick: Reiki Now Too Crazy For Catholics to Bostonist
  Today, the Boston Globe reports that Catholic hospitals are banning the use of reiki, the practice of waving one's hands over a patient in the hopes of magically channeling a nonexistent "life energy" in order to promote healing. How nutty is this practice, exactly? Well, the Catholic Church officially believes in ghosts, zombies, multiplying dinner rolls, and crackers that are people, but even they're too savvy for this stuff.
• Commented on Monday Happenings
  I'd like to point out that Rick does not speak for all of Bostonist on matters of music, specifically the awesomeness of The Breeders....
• Posted Skepchick: Creationism in the Boston Globe to Bostonist
  Though this happened years ago (by Internet Time, aka last Wednesday), Bostonist would be remiss if we didn't mention yet another example of the Boston Globe quickly diminishing standards. Not content to merely wilt and die, the Globe continues its mission to commit suicide in the grandest way possible: by publishing ridiculous tripe that no one with a lump of grey matter between their ears would believe. Case in point: this op-ed by a creationist, claiming that Thomas Jefferson would be a creationist and so it must be true, or something or other.
• Commented on Skepchick: Boobies, Psychics & The Art of Making Up Headlines
  Yes, they're over there.... (runs away)...