Our 22nd loon, Benneth is a respected and highly influential homeopath – indeed, one of the staunchest and most prominent defenders of homeopathic remedies in the States. Listen to Benneth explain how homeopathy works and its scientific underpinnings here, and hear one of the most ridiculous abuses of scientific language you’ve heard in a long time. It’s all there, from classic phrases like “more and more scientists have taken interest…” to “magnetic radiation” (a term Benneth employs as roughly equivalent to “qi” or “chi” or some similar New Age drivel), and the use of a sciency term that sounds like it’ll serve his purpose - in this case "nanocrystalloids", a phenomenon he thoroughly fails to understand (instead relying on the assumption that his listeners don’t understand it either). Pure nonsense and pseudo-scientific babble, in other words. It is deconstructed here.Benneth also apparently thinks that homeopathy-skeptics are really Nazis who want to set another Holocaust into motion.
Yup – all there; no understanding of science, conspiracy theories, reductio ad hitlerum-mongering, persecution complex etc. Also an ardent youtube poster.
He takes it one step further here.
Diagnosis: this guy is located well beyond lunacy; a zealous madman without a trace of critical thinking skills or understanding of science. A pathological liar and smearer with delusions of grandeur. He seems to enjoy some respect among the kookiest of crackpots, but his total impact is unclear.
He is actually really, utterly insane
ReplyDeleteThis is actually grand. PZ took down this guy in the usual PZ manner. This was Benneth's response. As Rev. BigDumbChimp put it, I don't think John diluted his coffee enough.
ReplyDeleteBenneth died of Parkinson’s disease in late 2021 aged 69. We had long suspected him to suffer from serious mental illness and his lengthy periods away from the keyboard were thought to be associated with hospitalisations. Anyone seeing his performances on YouTube will be familiar with how far-gone he was.
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