Just when I was getting the warm fluffy feeling that people were actually aware enough about the ins and outs the Bad Science’s actual target (based on the chats on the other blogs) I came across this site – Primary Teacher UK – and my heart sank.

The issue was never about the exercises, or even the advantages of doingt the exercises vs not doing them. It was about the pseudoscientific mumbo jumbo and ritual that the theory was wrapped up in. From what I have seen on the web so far, almost all the teachers who have readlily accepted the science behind brain gym have no formal scientific background. This is what really annoys me. If they have no scientific knowledge why are they so readily defending the science of Brain Gym? Would history teachers be happy if the new teaching theory (which kids just love and gets loads of positive feedback) included telling the children that Elizabeth the Eight was queen of England when the third world war was fought during 1930-1933?

No. They would go mental about it.

Yet teaching this mumbo jumbo seems perfectly rational to them.

Argh! 🙂

The conspiracy theorist in my thinks this is all part of the great social experiment the UK is undergoing. We are indoctrinating our children to think nonsensical things are science (open the doors for ID), to think being tracked and monitored is normal and then get them involved in group rituals to help remove the individual and create the collective thought process.

Maybe its just me…