In that context the moment someone turns up and starts saying "This is how to beat the Dark Side" you are all over them as some sort of evil influence to be exorcised. Dragon has made some dodgy statemens that have nothing to do with mud, and deserve criticism, IMO. All that Hitler stuff I just read... and that may well be repellent.
But this:
Many people are repelled by your superstition and junk science:
>dowsing
>pendulums
>tarot cards
>agnihotra ash
>charged water to kill cancer
>hexes
>mental re-arranging of nuclear rods
>mental re-arranging of Poppy Bush
>mental disabling of motion sensors
>using mud balls to make inanimate objects born again
Its you who are exhibiting the fascist tendencies again. I mean how dare someone talk about something different outside what you define as appropriate discourse. I mean ... You are totally right, (at least until that white van with the cute sea mammal stencil on the outside disappears from my driveway).
I am repelled by that. Dragon's stuff may amuse me, some of his ideas are a bit off as in smelly, (not in that list of yours tho). Some of what he says may have validity. Much of it attracts criticism, and much of that is valid, tho I don't think his critics on the pendulum front are particularly repelled by his ideas.
I am finding this - that the hugh today is a lot nastier than the hugh I remember from when I was here last.
Its a bit like born again Christians insisting they now have the one correct interpretation of the bible and therefore reality, and everyone that doesn't follow that orthodoxy should be shouted down and hounded. Or excommunicated before they infect the rest of the flock.
Angihotra is a religious thing, it comes from hinduism, which is in itself such a mish mash that it can struggle to be called a unified religion.
I find it odd that as its a religious concept it has to be accepted as scientifically valid or it becomes a heresy, "junk science".