On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:41:41 -0400, HVAC wrote:
> On 10/9/2012 2:17 PM, BruceS wrote:
>>
>>> Bob, you'd LOVE alt.astronomy. We have the finest kooks available.
>>
>> They're everywhere, from what I've seen. We used to have a wonderful
>> assortment at rec.org.mensa, drawn to the delusion that smart people
>> would read their ravings, I believ. I saw many in alt.support.cancer,
>> though most of those were at least on topic.
>
>
> The kooks should be kept away from any and all medical groups. There
> they may actually cause physical harm.
I agree, but with unmoderated groups there's not much you can do. I have
two next-door neighbors who are chiropractors, one semi-retired and the
other practicing. I don't know about the practicing one, but the semi-
retired has told me all about some of his deusional pseudo-science
beliefs. As far as I know, nobody stops these people from seeing
"patients" in real life, performing magic on them to "cure" whatever ails
them. I'm sure some of those people are avoiding real medical treatment
in favor of the woo, and come to harm because of it.
>> BTW, I think I've figured out Guth's angle.
>
>
> Many have tried.
>
>
>> He posted elsethread, and it looks like another "moon landing fake"
>> bit. Ho hum. The moon landing,
>> JFK's assassination, atomic power, and all sorts of other things are
>> fake.
>
>
> If you're not familiar with Brad Goth, he is a kook of the first water.
> A 'kook for all seasons' as it were. My favorite one of his delusions
> is his pant's tent regarding Venus. He believes he can see moon men
> running around on Venus as well as being able to see a reservoir there.
>
> He's got some other bizarre notion that we should move the orbit of the
> moon....The fucking MOON!
>
> And in alt astronomy his insanity is accepted with open arms. Painus
> leads the Kook Parade(tm) with Bert, AA, Goth, BJ and a host of others
> too numerous to mention.
>
> It's a hoot!
>
>
>> But space aliens doing anal probes on rednecks, and various monsters
>> around the globe, and people reading (and writing) other people's
>> minds, now *those* are real.
>
>
> LOL!
>
> Oh ya, Painus has some weird medical condition with his groin area which
> apparently requires Viagra to resolve, and Goth has some weird
> anal/fecal fetish which he mentions from time to time.
I'd forgotten about Guth's Venus bit. I mostly ignore his posts, but my
favorite loon hasn't been posting much lately. Sometimes I wonder if one
or more of these guys are actually quite sane, and just making up stuff
for laughs. But somehow, it just seems unlikely that anyone would be
able to invent such delusions and stick with them.
I used to be really into astronomy (got the mag, built a scope, etc.),
but not so much lately. Even so, I think it would just make me a bit sad
to go to a group specifically for astronomy, and find it so polluted with
loons. Shouldn't they be in alt.astrology, or alt.aliens, or something
like that instead? Groups based on science should be restricted to those
interested in actual science, not silly made-up pretend-science. But
again, as unmoderated groups they're pretty much open to all. Moderated
groups have their own set of problems.