Oy, have they got the wrong website!

July 29, 2013 • 3:26 am

Since this is basically a spam email, I feel no compunction about publishing it, though I’m leaving out the email address. But I’m wondering if they even looked at this place.

Hi there,

My name is Sarah Purdy and I am a business partner at lifereader.com which has quickly turned into one of the internet’s leading resource for personal life readings, psychics, astrologers and life coaches.

I was browsing your site and found this page http://whyevolutionistrue.com/ which I thought had a lot in common with an article that we wrote for our users on a similar subject which you can see here: www.lifereader.com/research-articles/alternative-medicine-resource.

We have highly valuable resources relating to spiritual healing, naturotherapy, diet advice and reiki healing to name a few items. I hope you agree and would consider adding our article (above) as a resource for your website?

I look forward to hearing back from you. Thank you and have a great day!

Sarah Purdy

Marketing Director

Lifereader.com

PS Here’s HTML code for a link so all you have to do is copy and paste it into your site:

<<Click here for a great resource on Natural and Alternative Medicine>>

What in the world is reiki healing?

58 thoughts on “Oy, have they got the wrong website!”

  2. From Wiki:

    a spiritual practice[1] developed in 1922 by Japanese Buddhist Mikao Usui, which has since been adapted by various teachers of varying traditions. It uses a technique commonly called palm healing or hands on healing as a form of alternative medicine and is sometimes classified as oriental medicine by some professional medical bodies.[2] Through the use of this technique, practitioners believe that they are transferring universal energy (i.e., reiki) in the form of qi (Japanese: ki) through the palms, which they believe allows for self-healing and a state of equilibrium.[3]

  3. They don’t really care what’s here. They’re not interested in people linking from here to there, only in having a lot of links to raise their page in the search rankings.

  5. Reiki is some new age strand, supposedly originated from Japan. It’s all other new age stuff, bullocks.

    Spammers do not, in general, care about the contents of the site they spam. All what they care about is getting links on other site, hoping they will receive higher search rankings (companies such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are changing their search algorthims to filter out such abuses). It’s called link spam.

    1. Please don’t refer to this kind of thing as new age.’ Most of these cons are a whole lot older than we are. That’s all of us, together.

  6. In March, you posted “A few words and phrases I hate.” In her email, Sarah Purdy uses a sentence I really dislike: “I look forward to hearing back from you.”

      1. It’s looking up that I’ll look forward to hearing back from you as long as I don’t get behind. 😀

    1. Kinda scary…but, of everything on that list, Reiki is about the only one I’d voluntarily consent to. The only risk is from substituting it for real treatment….

      b&

      1. Now, now, don’t be silly. Homeopathy has no side effects and many restorative benefits.

        I mean, every time I go to the doctor, they recommend I drink plenty of water.

        1. Thing is, many homeopathic “remedies” are sold as sugar tablets or in ethanol-based “solutions.” Both of those are chronic toxins with remarkably similar metabolic pathways….

          b&

        2. I thought homeopathy would be harmless too but I think all that water is expensive so reiki is probably still less harmful since you just pay for visits vs. homeopathy: visits & expensive water.

          1. I have had several people tell me that they only use ‘herbal’, natural or some such thing. Were do they suppose that pharmaceutical companies get the chemical compounds they put in their products?

          2. I must apologize for this last post. I am medicated (with all various ‘unnatural’ medicaments), so please make the necessary grammatical changes and pretend that was what I said. I suppose one should not post under the influence.

          5. Whenever someone tries to use the “all natural” argument with me, I like pointing out that mercury, arsenic, and anthrax are all completely natural.

          7. Thank you; I forget sometimes how many people seem to forget that all manner of toxins occur naturally. Like crude oil, which gets a lot of people citing it as toxic waste (oil companies spend a lot of money to make petroleum into various forms that are toxic.)
            The other phrase that really bugs me is ‘organic food’. Will someone out there give me an example of ‘inorganic food?’ Well, discounting Twinkies and Cheese Wiz.

  9. It’s a NZ-based company
    Details:- LIFE COM LIMITED (2268435) Registered
    You can log on to their site as a “reader” or you can be “read”
    All the company does is provide a platform & take credit card payments. They don’t get much traffic.

    At the bottom of their site pages it says:- “LifeReader is for entertainment purposes only” 🙂

    1. “LifeReader is for entertainment purposes only”

      It seems to be succeeding so far, in a rather modest way 😉

  10. You might want to remove the links, Jerry. They don’t care about the subject matter but being linked to from a popular blog would give them higher search engine rankings.

    1. Yes, it is one of the silliest alt-med woo therapies out there: essentially “healing” by mime.

      It is right up there with rain-dances as a plausible intervention.

      2. I’ll have to remember that one the next time someone tries to convince me about Reiki – it’s healing by pantomime.

  17. Reiki is the Japanese version of Therapeutic Touch.
    (Ironically, Therapeutic Touch does not actually involve any touching)

  18. Reiki is the highest form of healing handwavery according to a BigAltMed shill, based on her repeated claims that Reiki Masters wouldn’t go any where near Emily Rosa like those therapeutic touchists

    1. I heard that the quantic touch worked better (at least on Chilean TV).

  19. I think they trawl the Internet for sites that have a lot of mentions of stuff like faith-healing, supernatural beliefs and so on – which this site does, though not in a complimentary way.

    (Not a new observation, I seem to recall that Daniel Rutter of Dans Data commented that, after his campaign against magic fuel pill scams, his site was targeted for all manner of advertising of the very sort of woo-ish products that he was castigating).

    1. I used to see a lot of ads for bible study on lots of atheist YouTube videos. Also ads for online ministry certification.

        1. Freethought Blogs is on a lot of bottom-feeding ad networks. I delight in clicking on those ads and costing the advertiser a few pennies each and every time.

          Until I finally get sick of pop-unders that auto-play video with sound and install AdBlockPlus. Freethought Blogs is consistently the site that drives me to AdBlock.

          1. Woah.

            YouTube has advertisements? Since when?

            I shudder to think of what Teh Innertubes must look like without AdBlock….

            b&

  20. I’m going to guess that’s a form-letter, sent to a whole bunch of WordPress page owners.

  21. “What in the world is reiki healing?”
    Only thing you need to know is that it doesn’t work, as I know from personal experience more than 20 years ago. Of course the cause was that I hadn’t opened my mind or something.

  22. Reiki is just Japanese therapeutic touch, famously disproved by nine year Emily Rosa in 1998. That, of course, didn’t/doesn’t stop Dr. Oz from promoting it on national television and in the operating room at Columbia Presbyterian (now New York-Presbytetian).

  24. I read an overview of Dr. Oz and his life and as I recall his wife is one of these healers. He used to bring her into the operating room to work her magic while he worked. Reading the profile of him, he seems like a very gifted surgeon who believes a lot of wacky stuff. I wonder sometimes how comfortable I’d feel if he was the guy saving my life on the table.

  25. the thing about reiki is that performerss get scammed almost as much as the victims (i won’t call people sucked in by frauds like this patients). they have three levels of ’empowerment’ for reiki ‘healers’. the fees for empowerment in these levels go up steeply as the level increases. sort of like scientology that way. as i understand it, each level, besides the empowerment mumbo jumbo, teaches a different set of ‘secret’ symbols which one is supposed to make over the victim with one’s hands and of course the ‘higher’ symbols are supposed to be more powerful.

  26. “But I’m wondering if they even looked at this place.”

    I bet you a tenner it’s just trawlbots or whatever these are called.

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