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northernflame · 01-17-2006, 09:28 PM

On the advice of my Director, I attempted to watch 'What the ... do we know?'

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399877/

Depsite the obvious New Age overtones I tried to watch the movie but gave up when John Hagelin (Phd) started describing his work in which he had 4,000 volunteers regulalry meditate in order to bring down the violent crime rate in Washington by 25%. According to his 'analysis', violent crime rates fell by 18% (of course, violent crime rates fell only relative to his own dubious statisitical forecast of crime rates whereas, in reality, homicides actually increased in Washington that year. For this scientific study, Dr. Hagelin was awarded the IG NOBLE Prize in 1994 (http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-top.html).

Anyway, sorry about the rant. I was wondering if anybody else has seen the movie and what they thought about it. And, more generally,what the worst movies are that they have seen.

01-17-2006, 09:28 PM	#1
northernflame Lifetime Suspension Join Date: Oct 2003 Exp:	Worst Movies On the advice of my Director, I attempted to watch 'What the ... do we know?' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399877/ Depsite the obvious New Age overtones I tried to watch the movie but gave up when John Hagelin (Phd) started describing his work in which he had 4,000 volunteers regulalry meditate in order to bring down the violent crime rate in Washington by 25%. According to his 'analysis', violent crime rates fell by 18% (of course, violent crime rates fell only relative to his own dubious statisitical forecast of crime rates whereas, in reality, homicides actually increased in Washington that year. For this scientific study, Dr. Hagelin was awarded the IG NOBLE Prize in 1994 (http://www.improbable.com/ig/ig-top.html). Anyway, sorry about the rant. I was wondering if anybody else has seen the movie and what they thought about it. And, more generally,what the worst movies are that they have seen.