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Kids Learn Iridology Is Gross PDF Print E-mail
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Local TV interviewees are outraged after an "iridologist" came to career day at this Texas elementary school and told a bunch of children that they shouldn't take medicine and that green eyes are bad.

They're not mad about that, though. Nor are they upset that a public school might be essentially promoting alt-med con-artistry as a viable career.

They're mad that the iridologist showed the students pictures of "worms in a man’s exposed brain and worms coming out of a woman’s butt."

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written by Gramzy, May 20, 2011
This is interesting. Sure, they students shouldn't have seen images that could scar them psychologically, however there is the fact that the presentation was teaching pseudoscience - a dangerous one at that, claiming they shouldn't take medicine and to shun scientific medical research - was dangling right in front of them.

I found the part where that mother was listing the fact that the presentation was telling them that medicine is bad, but then is shocked about the naked body.
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written by orpheus66, May 20, 2011
Isn't Texas pretty much lost to critical thought at this point? The state is determined to rewrite history, force religion into classrooms... is pseudo-scientific woo really that much worse than everything else they're doing to destroy their kids' educations?
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written by Zoroaster, May 20, 2011
I wonder how you go from diagnoses from irises to needing to show tapeworms emerging from anuses. We are told that the presenter was a parent of a student at the school. Scary. I'm thinking they are somewhat mentally unstable in general and the administration has no actual criteria for who can present at "career day" other than who shows up. Why anyone would need a career day before middle school is somewhat questionable too. I think the news article was probably edited to be sensational, I bet there were parents who complained about the pseudoscience just as much.
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