Now, I stumbled upon this while looking up something called "ORMUS" that Christopher had told me about while out for coffee, and ...
Well, lets go back a bit...
The conversation had turned to "Coast to Coast AM", which was/is(??), for those who don't know, the default AM radio station for cross-country middle-of-the-night road trips in the latter part of the 20th/earlier part of the 21st century.
I mean, it was interesting. A proper whorehouse of uncritical thinking, it's format a guest, call in with questions, then an open mic where anyone across the USA or World even could call in and share their first-hand accounts of Bigfoot, UFO's, cryptids, time travelers, fairies, you name it, chances are they were waiting on the phone to talk to Art Bell or George Noory.
Which made for interesting road trips...
And anyways Chris was telling me about ORMUS, which apparently was advertised on the show and was some sort of miraculous panacea, and I made a note to look it up, and - getting past all of the fluff-trying-to sell you these other quack remedies and some tea tree oil found the skinny on it.
Which I'll share with you here:
ORMUS
(Orbitally Rearranged Monoatomic Elements) and m-state materials, is a fictitious group of substances exhibiting many miraculous properties, such as healing powers and superconductivity at room temperature. They were supposedly discovered in 1975 by David Hudson, a cotton farmer from Arizona.
- Cure all forms of disease, including cancer and AIDS
- Correct errors in the DNA
- Act as a superconductor
- Emit gamma radiation
- Partially levitate in the Earth's magnetic field
- Read a person's mind
- Have a "weigh-ability" different from mass, which probably means an inertial mass different from the gravitational mass
- Be fused into a transparent glass
- Act as a flash powder, causing "explosions of light"
- Make severed cat tails grow back
I could go on but you should read the article yourself: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/ORMUS
Now, you'll probably notice that while the site is set up to look like Wikipedia, the writing style is not, and it's far, far more humorous. With a writing style closer to "Cracked Magazine's" editorial standards it's doing a fine job of poking fun at those people who really should know better, and a lot who do know better but are making a killing off of those too lazy to ask questions.
The "Penis Enlargement" is a great article, and from there I jumped link to link to arrive at "Alpha Course" and from there it was a natural to end up at "Evidence for the historical existence of Jesus Christ", which, at maybe a mere 10 pages or so, is the best written refutation (not critical - in the sense of the religion, merely in terms of the evidence supporting it) I've read yet on the topic.
Now, this site is a goldmine - I'm pretty sure I've discovered it before, but didn't explore it as thoroughly as I should, you can find a short list of the topics they address here: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/RationalWiki:Contents and visit the main page here: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page.
It really should never have come to this, but there's been such a demise as of late of critical thinking that it has, it really has.