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  1. The American Institute of Holistic Theology has received the dubious honor of being listed as a Daily Sucker by Vincent Flanders's Web Pages That Suck:

    http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/dailysucker/
     
  2. Tom Head

    Tom Head New Member

    Well, there's a name that jumps out at me right off the bat: Featured author Bruce Schneider, who ... mentioned ... his book on one of my email lists about a year ago. It had gotten some pretty good reviews, as I recall, and I very well could have actually bought a copy, but by then I had already used up my Book Length First-Person Accounts of Near Death Experiences budget for 2001. FWIW, I remember thinking that he was about as flaky as they came, but the man could sure write (and in all fairness, he did actually participate in conversations, and was by no means a spammer). I never got around to suggesting that we get together to write a sequel called Panic, We're All Screwed, but maybe it's not too late.

    Pretty creepy web page design, though, I have to admit. Is it just my imagination, or did parapsychic science get to be Uranus?


    Cheers,
     
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  3. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    ...and the Degree Titling Police ought to bust them for their Doctor of Healtheology.
     
  4. cdhale

    cdhale Member

    well, in all fairness, they are intending to train you as a "Holistic Health Counselor" , not a proper Title Maker...:D

    clint
     
  5. BillDayson

    BillDayson New Member

    I went to the Vincent Flanders site and while I saw insults directed at anything moving (the Smithsonian, NASA, a knife company, a bookstore), I couldn't find a reference to "holistic theology" anywhere.

    My opinion of Vincent Flanders' site? I think that any website that only exists to insult other websites... sucks.
     
  6. Chip

    Chip Administrator

    For the Clayton College of Natural Health apologists, you should know that the American Institute of Holistic Theology is owned by Clayton... and maintains the same, uh, standards as Clayton.

    BTW, in addition to "healtheology", they also offer a degree in "naturology" which is, of course, completely unrecognized by anyone.
     
  7. jon porter

    jon porter New Member

    AIHT

    I thought the American Institute of Holistic Theology was Chester P. Yoswick's operation, not Clayton. Or have things changed?

    jon
     
  8. Tom Head

    Tom Head New Member

    Naturology. Isn't that the study of naked people?



    Cheers,
     
  9. Tom Head

    Tom Head New Member

    I liked Mirsky's Worst of the Web, but nothing good along these lines has really come about since then.


    Cheers,
     
  10. Flanders can be very insulting, and he's definitely opinionated -- but you can learn a lot about developing websites that are easy to use and accessible from looking at sites that are not. (As he puts it, "learn good Web design by looking at bad Web design.")

    For example, see his comments on Mystery Meat Navigation (navigation based on JavaScript rollovers ) at http://www.fixingyourwebsite.com/mysterymeat.html

     
  11. Chip

    Chip Administrator

    Re: AIHT

    Yozwick is definitely associated with Westbrook, and I think he is or was associated with AIHT, but AIHT definitely has a link to Clayton... I have the info in a file somewhere.

    Yozwick is also, if memory serves, one of the fraudulent accreditors for Westbrook... while conveniently also being a senior official at the school.

    Oh... and they were going for regional accreditation, applying in late 2000 or early 2001, so they claimed in 1999... what a surprise that we've heard nothing more about that.
     

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