Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze
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#2"According to Pew Research Center data...42% think spiritual energy can be located in physical objects such as crystals."
Urgh. Is it really 42%? That's depressing.
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#3I don’t buy into any of this stuff myself, but if it gives people comfort (or even a placebo effect), perhaps it’s not all that bad?
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#4I don’t buy into any of this stuff myself, but if it gives people comfort (or even a placebo effect), perhaps it’s not all that bad?
Yeah the 60% of Americans believing in pseudoscience is somewhat concerning, but I don’t see a problem with people buying them if thats what they’re into. And the injustice of mine workers not seeing their fair share is a classic issue of resource extraction from poor countries. I imagine they’d rather have the option to dig than not.
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#5I predict that there will be a huge market in giant crystals, once rich people get hold of this.
Giant crystals are one of the few remaining truly scarce assets, more rare than that limited edition Bugatti, and unlike gemstones (diamond, ruby, ...) they have a novelty factor (not to mention sheer size).
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/88/b9/04/88b9046dcf1acc04c63d...
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#6I don’t buy into any of this stuff myself, but if it gives people comfort (or even a placebo effect), perhaps it’s not all that bad?
It’s better than bleach enemas or even antivaxers, that’s true. It’s still a scam though, about the same level as homeopathy (that’s slightly worse because people use it to replace real medicine)
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#7I don’t buy into any of this stuff myself, but if it gives people comfort (or even a placebo effect), perhaps it’s not all that bad?
The article does not mainly focus on whether the belief in crystals’ healing powers is bad. It is mostly about the mining operations that bring the crystals out of the ground to begin with, and how a surge in demand for them is driving that mining.
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#8“Granola Crunchers or simply Crunchers, terms comprising the prototypical sandals, unrefined fibers, daffy arcana, emotional incontinence, flamboyantly long hair, extreme liberality on social issues, financial support from parents they revile, bare feet, obscure import religions, indifferent hygiene, a gooey and somewhat canned vocabulary, the whole predictable peace-and-love post-Hippie diction“ -Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
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#9"According to Pew Research Center data...42% think spiritual energy can be located in physical objects such as crystals." Urgh. Is it really 42%? That's depressing.
I'd question the survey they conducted.
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#10"According to Pew Research Center data...42% think spiritual energy can be located in physical objects such as crystals." Urgh. Is it really 42%? That's depressing.
Science education in this country is seriously broken. The elementary schools jump right into teaching procedural skills such as the 'scientific method', which is really just experimental design and is useless without teaching the basic critical thinking and philosophy of science. Those are way more important for the majority of students, who are not going to go on to be scientists.
We need to start the education at the preschool level, teaching the kids how easy it is to be fooled and why we have to always question. You can then build on that at the elementary school level with concepts of objectivity and repeatabily. By the end on elementary school you can then begin philosophy of rationality and empiricism. This can all happen in parallel to teaching 'science facts' that we do now.
But none of this is currently happening at any kind of large scale.