OK, there are a lot of overly credulous people out there — people who believe in pseudo-sciences like homeopathy, astrology or the kooky idea that vaccines cause autism. Occasionally we do get an incident that of the recent death by religious stupidity where an 11-year old girl died of diabetic ketoacidosis because her parents decided to pray for her rather than take her to a doctor. And that's hardly the first time something like that has happened.
Fortunately, children dying because of the pseudo-scientific or religious stupidities of their parents are few and the following is much more common. This one is just stupid enough to be silly. Or maybe silly enough to be stupid — I'm not quite sure.
In Portland, Oregon, Adam Kuby wants to do acupuncture on the city Not it's inhabitants, the literal city. Kuby feels that certain parts of the city correspond to parts of the body and that sticking giant needs in those locations will somehow restore the city's “chi” to its proper pattern of flow:
In March 2008 I was the “Artist-in-Residence” in Portland’s new South Waterfront neighborhood at the base of the aerial tram, where I brainstormed and work-shopped this idea with help from acupuncturists, acupuncture students, city planners, ecologists, artists, writers, public art professionals and the general public. Together we envisioned Portland as a metaphorical body, explored how energy flows through the city and debated which parts of the city would correspond to the different acupuncture organs and meridian systems.
What utter crackpottery! But at least he's not trying to cure his child's disease with it. (I hope.)
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