(Russian) Science Marches On

[arisbe]

"Malakhovskaya have studied that power of the sign of the cross with the blessing of the Church for nearly ten years now. She has carried out a great number of experiments, which have been repeatedly verified before their results were made public. She has discovered in particular the unique bactericidal properties of water after being blessed by an Orthodox prayer and a sign of the cross. The study also revealed a new, earlier unknown property of the Word of God to transform the structure of water, increasing considerably its optical density in the short ultra-violet spectral region, the newspaper [Zhizn] writes."

Comments

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

it is noteworthy in this, which interfax carried some
weeks ago, no studies are offered not even any in
the "unrepeatable experiment" category which covers
a good deal of pseudoscience... well but as you noted
in a private message the blog here has its own features
I have no idea what church this fr John belongs too,
I would be happy(as an Easstern Orthodox and given his
aryan nationalist position) if the listing of the
Book of Common Prayer as a favorite book indicates he
is from some sort of sect of Episcopalian...

well we all together I suppose are like impossible creatures
being herded unto the ark so there is that too...

[pilgrimpriest.livejournal.com]

I suspect he is a vagante priest whom I have tangled with on the internet. He is currently (after a couple of changes of Bishop) unaffiliated and has formulated some kind of Nordic Western Rite "Orthodox" Church in Minneapolis. If this is the same fellow, he has also experienced a name change.

Priest RKM

[dmnsqrl.livejournal.com]

Minneapolis? Oh dear. (That's a little close to me for comfort)

[rawmr.livejournal.com]

Well, salt is added to holy water, as a rule, that might account for at least some of the altered properties. Perhaps salt was added at some point, and they just overelooked it in the analysis. A terribly unfortunate faux pau but, oh well, these things do happen.

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

or maybe a bit of gin?

[aegis-one.livejournal.com]

something sort of along these lines. in the docu-movie "what the bleep do we know", they touched on a series of experiements done by a man regarding water, effects of prayer and the like. Can't remember the guys name off hand, but it is mentioned in the flick, and is worth a look if you're interested in this type of thing.