Comments on: Westminster University BSc: “amethysts emit high yin energy”

By: Hot and cold herbal nonsense from Napier University Edinburgh: another course shuts.

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:18:30 +0000

[...] Professor Geoffrey Petts). Their students are taught that Amethysts emit high Yin energy and that dowsing and pendulums can be used for diagnosis and [...]

By: BANT: A Profile « Stuff And Nonsense

BANT: A Profile « Stuff And Nonsense — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:54:29 +0000

[...] graduated from Patrick Holford’s Institute for Optimum Nutrition and two have degrees from Westminster University, with another member being a graduate of Thames [...]

By: Unscientific America: Mooney & Kirshenbaum reviewed in BMJ

Unscientific America: Mooney & Kirshenbaum reviewed in BMJ — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:31:20 +0000

[...] either. What has worked is the revelation that university courses are teaching that “amethysts emit high yin energy”7. Or, in a lecture on herbal approaches for patients with cancer, “Legally, you cannot [...]

By: Consultation opens on Pittilo report: help to stop Department of Health making fool of itself

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:59:58 +0000

[...] revelation that Westminster had been teaching its first year students that "amethysts emit high yin energy" and that students had been taught to diagnose disease and choose treatments by means of a [...]

By: BMJ defends freedom of speech (but censors my comment)

BMJ defends freedom of speech (but censors my comment) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:53:35 +0000

[...] When it became possible to reveal leaked teaching materials that taught students that “amethysts emit high yin energy“, and name and shame the vice-chancellors who allow that sort of thing to happen (in this [...]

By: More make-believe from the University of Westminster. This time it’s Naturopathy

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:53:03 +0000

[...] guess the vibrational medicine (whatever that means) was covered already in the now infamous ‘amethysts emit high yin energy‘ [...]

By: Journey through a Burning Mind » Debate: Alternative medicine does more harm than good

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:40:35 +0000

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By: The last BSc (Hons) Homeopathy closes! But look at what they still teach at Westminster University.

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:56:35 +0000

[...] revelation that the University of Westminster teaches that Amethysts emit high Yin energy caused something of a [...]

By: Health Professions Council ignores its own rules: the result is nonsense

Health Professions Council ignores its own rules: the result is nonsense — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:19:02 +0000

[...] boxes and passing exams is an effective process. Even if the exams require you to memorise that amethysts “emit high Yin energy so transmuting lower energies and clearing and aligning energy disturbance as all levels of [...]

By: Most alternative medicine is illegal

Most alternative medicine is illegal — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:06:53 +0000

[...] who teach that “Amethysts emit high Yin energy” make an interesting case. They charge fees and in return they are “falsely claiming that a [...]

By: The opposite of science

The opposite of science — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:28:04 +0000

[...] complying with the Freedom of Information Act. Nevertheless a great deal has leaked out. Not just amethysts emit hig Yin energy, but a whole lot more (watch this space). Given what is already in the public, arena, how can they [...]

By: How to get good science: again

How to get good science: again — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:19:34 +0000

[...] which they can’t possibly believe to be true, like Professor Petts of Westminster (where Amethysts emit high Yin energy), and Michael Pittilo of Robert Gordon’s University Aberdeen. We have vice chancellors who [...]

By: Journey through a Burning Mind » Listening to the Experts Discussing Bullshit Detection

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:25:02 +0000

[...] stuff about the recent wmin audit is at http://dcscience.net/?p=984#wmin The wmin slides are at http://dcscience.net/?p=227 Teaching Bad Science to children http://dcscience.net/?p=454 Thames Valley Nutritional Medicine [...]

By: A letter to the Times, and progress at Westminster

A letter to the Times, and progress at Westminster — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:42:29 +0000

[...] out from Westminster, nonetheless. The set of “vibrational medicine” slides, including “Amethysts emit high Yin energy”, have caused much hilarity. The Westminster “miasmatic” examination question gets [...]

By: Medicines that contain no medicine and other follies

Medicines that contain no medicine and other follies — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:26:33 +0000

[...] And there are a lot of hidden costs in this approach. One cost is the need to lie to patients to achieve a good placebo effect. That contradicts the trend towards more openness in medicine. And there is a major cost to the taxpayer in the training of people. If the NHS employs homeopaths or spiritual healers because they are nice people who can elicit a good placebo effect, the Human Resources department will insist that they are fully-qualified in myths. ““Full National Federation of Spiritual Healer certificate. or a full Reiki Master qualification, and two years post certificate experience” (I quote). That is one reason why you can find in UK universities, undergraduates being taught at taxpayers’ expense, that “amethysts emit high Yin energy”. [...]