Crime does not always pay.

Someone could let the legal authorities in Arizona know about the fund-raising / accommodation issues… They might seek to examine his income tax records, and those of James Ray International Inc, review his case and decide he is not ready for release just yet.

He might need more rehabilitation, more counselling, & more negative reinforcement.

And why isn’t his brother kicking down for rent money? It’s not that much money! What are they offering in exchange for a place to stay? Or do they just expect people to offer a place for free?

That letter is the nerviest thing I’ve ever seen. They’re “counting on the universe to guide someone”? Why not just manifest the stinkin’ rent money yourself?

I agree, Yakaru, the risks of becoming a James Arthur Ray customer are significant. And I hope to god no one lets this psychopath into their home.

That cartoon is brilliant – http://www.xkcd.com/977/ – I love that guy. (I guess I would have been a Hobo Dyer devotee for most of my adult life, going by his descriptions.)

Really, I think Lipton screwed up that explanation more thoroughly than anything else. It’s such a simple idea that perceptions can be fooled, but he doesn’t understand it. Then he tries to explain it using a medium (the maps) which he also doesn’t understand.
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@Andy & DT,

It is kind of infuriating that this loon still hasn’t been smacked down in any reputable publications. He’s so mad, no biologist wants to touch him with a barge pole. Even the rabid anti-creationist PZ Myers, who’s certainly not one to lightly pass up a chance for smack down, simply backed away from an interview with Lipton he heard, calling it “a place where reason goes to die.”

But what I’ve noticed is that believers will always be believers, and those who have doubts don’t need much — at least not in this case — to realize he’s a scammer.

According to my stats, the search term “Bruce Lipton quack” is by some distance the most common search term that brings people to this blog. One doesn’t have to ask too many questions to confirm such suspicions.

There is an entry in the Online Movie Database (www.imdb.com) for the documentary film Kymatica. According to the Wikipedia article on Dr Liptalk I think Kymatica describes or parallels his ideas. (I have not watched the film, one can find it in various editions on Youtube.)

There are no comments or reviews and more usefully no synopsis or plot entries as yet for Kymatica in IMDB. It is “tabula rasa”. The point of that is whoever gets in first and writes a plot summary and/or synopsis gets the “front page” entry and gets to keep the front page. As far as I know, once someone writes a plot summary or synopsis or review in imdb.com, normally no one else can come along and edit, revise, delete etc your contribution / opinion.

If someone did that in IMDB, they could then go back to the Wikipedia entry and insert a link to the IMDB entry beside the entry in Wikipedia linking to one of the various online video versions of Kymatica. I have not figured out yet if “Kymatica” has anything to do with Psych K.

Maybe Wikipedia allows links to book reviews on Amazon, perhaps more people buy the books than read the reviews however, so my earlier book review suggestion in a prior posting may be futile and ill-advised.

I’ll let you get back to the violin so I can get back to the viola.

I was in fact murdered by Moriarty but manged to overcome it with wishful thinking!

In the UK too one usually needs to hold a Master’s prior to studying for a Phd. I think in the US system an element of the Phd is taught and this could be why it took Lipton five years. I have no doubt that his qualifications are genuine. The point of this blog is to expose how he uses his Phd and some genuine science insidiously to promote his cancer quackery.

I think that it’s important for Wikipedia, if they use external links to promote the subject of the article, especially those that include sales material, then they should allow links that review and critique the products for sale on those links.

Thanks for your efforts.

“McGeddon” also appears (like Yobol) to be Wiki admin (if that is the correct expression). S/he has made numerous changes to the contents and layout of the Bruce Lipton article in the last 12 hours. S/he seems to be sympathetic to the introduction of some sceptical analysis into the information (sic ?) presented. I have been thinking part of the ethos of Wikipedia should be to facilitate arriving at the truth, and starting from the assumption that Liptalk is controversial, there needs to be more balance.

BurgerKM09 was apparently actively & repeatedly trying to introduce the word pseudoscience into the article over a month ago, without success.

I don´t know what the situation is in the US, but in Australia it would be unusual (and perhaps never happens) that a university student can receive a BA in Biology, as far as I know biology is never an arts subject in Australia. It is also unusual for a student to proceed from a bachelor degree (in Australia) to a Ph.D. in a medical / science discipline , and further unusual to reach a Ph D after a Bachelor degree without picking up a Master degree in the interim (in Australia).

There are also various extra biographical details about Dr Liptalk in his book The Biology of Belief, I have read part of it since yesterday – as if you go to Amazon there are many sample pages from the book available online.

I also suffer from some of Dr. Liptalk´s musings or attitudes, but not all of them.

Here´s a run-down of the activity at Wikipedia over the last 5 weeks (during which time things have warmed up in terms of the amount of edit traffic, compared with the last 2 or 3 years – I think the article “Bruce Lipton” first made it into Wikipedia in 2010 ?).

(cur | prev) 13:18, 21 May 2013‎ McGeddon (talk | contribs)‎ . . (5,157 bytes) (-133)‎ . . (rv again per WP:ELNO; should not link to “Blogs, personal web pages and most fansites, except those written by a recognized authority”, which would cover an anonymous surgeon writing under the name of a Blake’s 7 computer) (undo)
(cur | prev) 13:16, 21 May 2013‎ Wtf1962 (talk | contribs)‎ m . . (5,290 bytes) (+133)‎ . . (→‎External links) (undo)
(cur | prev) 13:12, 21 May 2013‎ McGeddon (talk | contribs)‎ . . (5,157 bytes) (-133)‎ . . (Reverted 2 edits by Wtf1962 (talk): Rv pseudonymous blog per WP:LINKSTOAVOID. (TW)) (undo)
(cur | prev) 13:11, 21 May 2013‎ Wtf1962 (talk | contribs)‎ . . (5,290 bytes) (+3)‎ . . (→‎External links) (undo)
(cur | prev) 13:09, 21 May 2013‎ Wtf1962 (talk | contribs)‎ m . . (5,287 bytes) (+130)‎ . . (undo)
(cur | prev) 09:11, 21 May 2013‎ McGeddon (talk | contribs)‎ . . (5,157 bytes) (+2)‎ . . (more appropriate template) (undo)
(cur | prev) 09:09, 21 May 2013‎ McGeddon (talk | contribs)‎ . . (5,155 bytes) (+28)‎ . . (actually, this does need solid secondary sources – it’s all sourced to his own publications, a couple of podcast appearances and lists of conference attendees) (undo)
(cur | prev) 08:43, 21 May 2013‎ McGeddon (talk | contribs)‎ . . (5,127 bytes) (-137)‎ . . (→‎External links: rm apparent copyvio of one of his books) (undo)
(cur | prev) 08:41, 21 May 2013‎ McGeddon (talk | contribs)‎ . . (5,264 bytes) (-28)‎ . . (cut template I added; was cleaning them up and thought it might need this one, but I don’t think it does, on reflection) (undo)
(cur | prev) 08:40, 21 May 2013‎ McGeddon (talk | contribs)‎ . . (5,292 bytes) (-297)‎ . . (merge small sections, copyedit, drop nested age brackets from lede sentence, and wikilink from external links (if he’s a chiropractor, we should say that in the article)) (undo)
(cur | prev) 04:59, 21 May 2013‎ Donald Telfer (talk | contribs)‎ . . (5,589 bytes) (+69)‎ . . (The socio-economic status of Mt Kisco is not relevant, N.B. citation needed , added a link to Wikipedia article on Chiropractic, moved heading “Academic Work” down a sentence, as receiving a BA is a learning activity not an academic work activity) (undo)
(cur | prev) 16:15, 20 May 2013‎ Yobol (talk | contribs)‎ . . (5,520 bytes) (-319)‎ . . (Undid revision 555903418 by Donald Telfer (talk) don’t see the relevance of this) (undo)
(cur | prev) 05:52, 20 May 2013‎ Donald Telfer (talk | contribs)‎ . . (5,839 bytes) (+319)‎ . . (→‎External links: Added a link to an historical perspective on developments in cancer stem cell research) (undo)
(cur | prev) 14:32, 29 April 2013‎ 178.85.47.62 (talk)‎ . . (5,520 bytes) (+2)‎ . . (→‎Books) (undo)
(cur | prev) 14:32, 29 April 2013‎ 178.85.47.62 (talk)‎ . . (5,518 bytes) (+70)‎ . . (→‎Books) (undo)
(cur | prev) 14:31, 15 April 2013‎ Yobol (talk | contribs)‎ . . (5,448 bytes) (-1,366)‎ . . (Undid revision 550478538 by 140.146.227.187 (talk)controversial information in a biography of a living person needs strong reliable sources) (undo)
(cur | prev) 14:30, 15 April 2013‎ 140.146.227.187 (talk)‎ . . (6,814 bytes) (+1,366)‎ . . (Undid revision 550438091 by 76.20.70.172 (talk) Factual information, if not accurate make changes where necessary rather than just deleting please.) (undo)
(cur | prev) 07:36, 15 April 2013‎ 76.20.70.172 (talk)‎ . . (5,448 bytes) (-1,366)‎ . . (→‎Pseudoscience) (undo) (Tag: section blanking)
(cur | prev) 04:09, 14 April 2013‎ BurgerKM09 (talk | contribs)‎ m . . (6,814 bytes) (+1)‎ . . (→‎Pseudoscience) (undo)
(cur | prev) 04:06, 14 April 2013‎ BurgerKM09 (talk | contribs)‎ . . (6,813 bytes) (+81)‎ . . (→‎Pseudoscience) (undo)
(cur | prev) 03:57, 14 April 2013‎ BurgerKM09 (talk | contribs)‎ . . (6,732 bytes) (+9)‎ . . (→‎Pseudoscience) (undo)
(cur | prev) 03:54, 14 April 2013‎ BurgerKM09 (talk | contribs)‎ m . . (6,723 bytes) (-276)‎ . . (→‎External links: removed unnecessary duplicate links (part 2 and 3 are included in part1)) (undo)
(cur | prev) 03:53, 14 April 2013‎ BurgerKM09 (talk | contribs)‎ . . (6,999 bytes) (+1,274)‎ . . (→‎Pseudoscience: Heading for a description of a lecture called “The wisdom of your cells” and various examples its pseudoscientific content) (undo)
(cur | prev) 02:52, 14 April 2013‎ BurgerKM09 (talk | contribs)‎ m . . (5,725 bytes) (+1)‎ . . (→‎External links) (undo)
(cur | prev) 02:39, 14 April 2013‎ BurgerKM09 (talk | contribs)‎ . . (5,724 bytes) (+412)‎ . . (→‎External links: links to summary of The wisdom of Your Cells lectures.) (undo)