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HTTP/2 301 server: nginx date: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 11:26:09 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 location: https://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com/comments/feed/ x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 11:26:09 GMT etag: "ed0a54e1996dd3e1892a71486490dbf5" x-redirect-by: WordPress x-ac: 4.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=403.0 HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 11:26:10 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 vary: Accept-Encoding x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 11:26:10 GMT etag: W/"6fc5c97b40322ac1613e92149b06899c" content-encoding: gzip x-ac: 1.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=408.0 Comments for Space City Skeptics https://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com The Official Blog of the Houston Skeptic Society Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:30:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.com/ Comment on How to Design a Positive Study: Meditation for Childhood ADHD….. by Wikileaks, TM research debunking, and more! https://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/how-to-design-a-positive-study-meditation-for-childhood-adhd/#comment-958 Thu, 17 Nov 2016 12:30:22 +0000 https://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-958 […] And here is an article that examines a published scientific research study on TM for Childhood ADHD. It finds over ten (10) examples of defects in the research design. These ten defects all tend to bias the results in favor of TM. (The pro-TM head researcher has a Doctorate in Education). Click here to see the critique: How to Design a Positive Study: Meditation for Childhood ADHD. […]

]]> Comment on Alternative Medicine Gimmick of the Week #1: Pen Power!….. by Geek Goddess https://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/alternative-medicine-gimmick-of-the-week-1-pen-power/#comment-951 Wed, 11 Nov 2015 14:35:43 +0000 https://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com/?p=401#comment-951 In reply to David Reich.

Well, except the author moved on and is a major contributor to Science Based Medicine blog, https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/, which is a top-rated blog and gets tens of thousands of views per day. He’s quoted in magazines and is interviewed about real medicine, all the time.

]]> Comment on Alternative Medicine Gimmick of the Week #1: Pen Power!….. by David Reich https://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/alternative-medicine-gimmick-of-the-week-1-pen-power/#comment-950 Fri, 16 Oct 2015 01:45:09 +0000 https://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com/?p=401#comment-950 I can see why this article and therefore it’s author has no likes- zilch, nada, zero, gornisht. Friend of the friendless. This guy goes from attempting to demean a pen company, and then insulting the chiropractic profession. A real class act if I say so myself.

]]> Comment on More Water Woo From Masaru Emoto….. by mid life rocks Blog » What’s Quantum Energy Got To Do With Gwyneth Paltrow’s Famous ‘Uncoupling’? You’ll Be Surprised! https://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/more-water-woo-from-masaru-emoto/#comment-944 Fri, 30 May 2014 22:13:48 +0000 https://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com/?p=116#comment-944 […] both are fans of Dr Masaru Emoto, a Japanese author and entrepreneur whose experiments claim to show water responds to labels like “I hate you” or “fear” by forming clumpy glumpy crystals instead of the beautiful pure ones they create when the labels […]

]]> Comment on How to Design a Positive Study: Meditation for Childhood ADHD….. by More Bad Research on Transcendental Meditation and ADHD https://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/how-to-design-a-positive-study-meditation-for-childhood-adhd/#comment-942 Sat, 03 May 2014 23:02:33 +0000 https://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com/?p=170#comment-942 […] at exposing the fraud common in TM research. Check out the blow-by-blow analysis at: https://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/how-to-design-a-positive-study-meditation-for-chil… Some excerpts: “The flaws in this study are numerous. The number of subjects is too […]

]]> Comment on Acupuncture for Chronic Itching?….. by theredstickskeptic https://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/acupuncture-for-chronic-itching/#comment-896 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 03:45:10 +0000 https://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com/?p=352#comment-896 As I tell my resident and medical students, it is silly to determine a mechanism of action when you haven’t proven an effect. Or at least I say something close to that. You belief that acupuncture works via that mechanism is just that. You assumption that acupuncture works for pain is just that. The evidence in favor of acupuncture having a specific effect beyond that of placebo is weak. And there are several large and well designed studies involving good sham acupuncture techniques that show no difference between groups? I gladly apologize for mistakenly assuming that you support the beliefs inherent in traditional acupuncture but you replacing magic with pseudoscience is not much better.

]]> Comment on Professor Irvine on consumerism & Stoicism by ‘Ethos’, a film on why we need to be conscious consumers | The surfing butterfly https://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/professor-irvine-on-consumerism-stoicism/#comment-895 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 01:41:48 +0000 https://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com/?p=485#comment-895 […] Professor Irvine on consumerism & Stoicism (spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com) 1.300333 103.773545 Rate this: Share this:FacebookStumbleUponEmailTwitterLinkedInLike this:LikeBe the first to like this post. […]

]]> Comment on Acupuncture for Chronic Itching?….. by Geek Goddess https://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/acupuncture-for-chronic-itching/#comment-894 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:42:10 +0000 https://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com/?p=352#comment-894 In reply to Marcello Costa.

We don’t use this blog much any more, but the author of the piece is still around and I can send him your notes. He’s a pediatrician that was in Houston but has since moved to another city.

thanks for your comments.

]]> Comment on Acupuncture for Chronic Itching?….. by Marcello Costa https://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/acupuncture-for-chronic-itching/#comment-893 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:01:59 +0000 https://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com/?p=352#comment-893 Oh dear! I just found this reference to this article while browsing the web! It refers to my comments on an article appeared in a most reputable scientific journal.
This may be too late to correct the misinterpretation by the author of this article. It is always disheartening to be misinterpreted even by skeptics, usually very sharp and clear (I do collaborate with the Skeptic Society). There is no mystery how acupunture works, where it works, ie by activating touch fibres that reduce the passage of pain impulses in the central nervous system before they become ‘pain’. Stimulation of sensory nerve fibres other than those carrying itch sensation (separate from pain fibres) could well also affect itch is a similar way as some touch fibres alter the pain fibres.

There is no magic in this, no implication of mysterious forces or meridiens etc etc. Paradoxically I was clearly misunderstood as a proponent of the quackery of chinese medicine acupunture principles!
How ironic for a scientist founder of the Friends of Science in Medicine (FSM) and author of several articles debunking pseudoscientific medicines (theconversation.edu.au/profiles/marcello-costa-284)!
I hope somebody reads this!
Marcello

]]> Comment on More Water Woo From Masaru Emoto….. by Let’s stop the new age nonsense! | Mexika Resistance https://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/more-water-woo-from-masaru-emoto/#comment-891 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:41:43 +0000 https://spacecityskeptics.wordpress.com/?p=116#comment-891 […] Excellent article on the Masaru Emoto “water memory” hoax. […]

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