Debunked: Nick Begich

[Mick]

Nick Begich is the author of Angels don't play this HAARP, a book that suggests that the HAARP facility is some kind of advanced weapon.

His claimed credentials are (from his own web site):

http://www.earthpulse.com/src/category.asp?catid=13

Begich received Doctor of Medicine (Medicina Alternitiva), honoris causa, for independent work in health and political science, from The Open International University for Complementary Medicines, Colombo, Sri Lanka, in November 1994.

The OIU appears to be a diploma mill, in fact it's been described as the "grandfather" of diploma mills, with several affiliates around the world. The degrees it provides are not even valid in Sri Lanka, according to the Indian government.

http://skepdic.com/diplomamill.html

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Diploma mills that sell M.D. degrees seem particularly dangerous.Lord Pandit Prof. Dr. Sir Anton Jayasuriya (1930-2005) of Sri Lanka created Medicina Alternativa International in Sri Lanka and claimed to be affiliated with The Open International University[presumably to be confused with the Open University of Sri Lanka]. He sold diplomas for various fields. I have a copy of his charge list for 1962. For $3,750 USD one could buy any of the following degrees: M.D. (M.A.), M.D. (T.M.), Dr. Ac., or Ph.D. These letters stand for Doctor of Medicine (Alternativa Medicina), Doctor of Medicine (Traditional Medicine), Doctor of Acupuncture, and Doctor of Philosophy. Registration was an extra $1,000. The M.Ac.F. cost $100. The letters stand for Membership of Acupuncture Foundation. The D.Ac. cost $145; those letters do not stand for Doctor of Acupuncture, as you might think, but for "International College Diploma," whatever that might be. Freddy Dahlgren, the inventor of microacupuncture, bought his degrees from Lord Pandit. Dahlgren follows his last name with a string of letters: D.Sc., D.Ac., M.Ac.F., M.D. Jeffrey Dummett, an Australiannaturopath who bought his doctorate from the Sri Lanka diploma mill was charged with manslaughter in the death of a 37-year-old kidney patient. His natural detoxification program took 11kg off his patient in 10 days and hastened the patient's death, according to the prosecutor.

Begich sells a wide variety of products on his web site, and it would seem to be in his interest to continue to promote a variety of bunk.

http://www.earthpulse.com/src/productindex.asp#

Many of the articles on his web site link directly into a related product in his store. He has a direct monetary interest in promoting his unlikely theories as holding water.

Begich updated his web site in 2010 to add the phrase "honoris causa" (indicating an honorary degree), prior to that the bio read

http://web.archive.org/web/201001231...y.asp?catid=13

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Begich received his doctorate in traditional medicine from The Open International University for Complementary Medicines in November 1994.

and now reads

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Begich received Doctor of Medicine (Medicina Alternitiva), honoris causa, for independent work in health and political science, from The Open International University for Complementary Medicines, Colombo, Sri Lanka, in November 1994.

[Mick]

I was just looking at this video:



Where he talks a lot about the Earth's "magnetic field lines" and how HAARP can "affect" the magnetic field lines.

He says (at 05:07)

"[HAARP affects the magnetic field lines ...] where the energy is normally naturally flowing from the south pole, coming up, arching high above the equator then coming back into the north pole, with the energy flowing from south to north. What happens is those magnetic field lines act as wave guides, so you can pump energy out of HAARP, focus it on those magnetic field lines, and then it screws itself, you are going to be able to see it, it'll be like a corkscrewing motion, where the energy is actuall moving now from north to south, using the magnetic field lines as a wave guide. [which would create a shield, instantly destroying an ICBM]".

It sounds very much like he think there are actual individual field lines. This is of course nonsense, there is only a magnetic field. The field lines are just a convenient way of mapping the field, like contour lines on a map.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneti...ic_field_lines

However, field lines are a visual and conceptual aid only and are no more real than (for example) the contour lines (constant altitude) on a topographic map. They do not exist in the actual field; a different choice of mapping scale could show twice as many "lines" or half as many.

He talks about charged particles "corkscrewing along the lines", which is also nonsense, as the particles simply move through the field with a corkscrew motion due to the Lorentz force. There are no actual lines.

Hence the talk of "affecting the field lines" sounds like he really does not know what he is talking about.