Category Archives: pseudoscience

Monica Pignotti In Black And White: Where’s The Book?

Here you go, and it does not get any more real than this, straight from one of Monica Pignotti’s blogs: As you can see, on November 8,2009, she claimed to have a book contract. That’s about two and a half … Continue reading

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Monica Pignotti: A Bad Start For 2012!

Monica Pignotti has several websites. At least one (still) contains a link to Jean Mercer’s “Child Myths” blog on Psychology Today. What’s wrong with this? Psychology Today terminated Mercer’s blogging contract as some of Mercer’s content had been identified as … Continue reading

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Monica Pignotti: Physician, Heal Thyself!

Instead of engaging in pointless commentary about John Knapp, Monica Pignotti would do better to offer a cogent explanation for why she is no longer associated with Larry Sarner and Linda Rosa. It is also worth noting that neither Sarner … Continue reading

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Monica Pignotti: Changing Sides Yet Again?

Take a look at one of the pages from Monica Pignotti’s 2010 CV. You will see, displayed like the blazing tetragrammaton on the breastplate of the high priest, a reference to Advocates for Children in Therapy. Pignotti prided herself on … Continue reading

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Monica Pignotti: “I cannot comment”

In one of her typical tirades, Monica Pignotti freely admitted to not really knowing very much about one of the objects of her attacks. Is this evidence based practice? Is this representative of Monica Pignotti’s self-touted critical thinking skills? It … Continue reading

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Monica Pignotti Fails At TIME TRAVEL!

Monica Pignotti is fascinated with time travel. She stated that if she could go back in time, she would eradicate the Internet. Not satisfied to sit around and fantasize, she’s actually tried, without success, to manipulate time. Take a look … Continue reading

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Newsflash: Secret Identity of “Orac” Revealed as Dr. David Gorski!

This is actually very old news, but it would appear Monica Pignotti still has some fascination with Gorski’s gothic stylings.

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The Cruel Tutelage of Charles Sanders Peirce (Part 2)

Recently, it appears that Monica Pignotti emailed a potential witness in the pending (as of now) court case against “Advocates for Children in Therapy,” operated by Larry Sarner of Loveland, CO. This is the same Larry Sarner who stood at … Continue reading

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The Blind Wisdom of Google Ads

Monica Pignotti is concerned about her Internet reputation. Her affiliation with Larry Sarner has not helped. Sarner borrowed money to develop voting machines, and did not pay it back. Sarner solicited and obtained substantial amounts of investment money for the … Continue reading

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The Cruel Tutelage of Charles Sanders Peirce

Many people are familiar with this deductive syllogism: All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; THEREFORE, Socrates is mortal. Less familar, and much less useful, is this “syllogism” employed by Monica Pignotti, Jean Mercer, Larry Sarner, Linda Rosa, and … Continue reading

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