Obviously, early 20th century science was not as sophisticated as what we have today. A lot of different people entered fields of study without necessarily having direct or even indirect credentials. It is thought, for example, that Rune Elmqvist, inventor of the first pacemaker, may have contri...
Parapsychology has gained a lot of credibility over the past 100 years, but there is still a strong contingent of skeptics who see ESP studies as misguided at best and completely worthless pseudoscience at worst. For a number of these skeptics, the primary argument against ESP is, quite simply...
Not all misinformation is created equal. It can adopt many different forms like conspiracy theories, fake news, junk science, or rumors among others. However, most of the existing research does not account for these differences. This paper explores the characteristics of misinformation content compare...
1964-67’, is intended to convey the spirit of a small research project that reaches into uncharted territory. The article breaks with tradition, as it offers a first-person account of the strategy and challenges for the experiment, as well as an interpretation of the final result and its si...
and the many other solidly scientific sources available (just watch out for sciencey-sounding pseudoscience).8This blog series is just a summary, to get you started, in understanding where science is at so far in one of its more promising inroads into answering one of the biggest ...
First, he practiced alchemy, an ancient pseudoscience that sought to change less costly metals into silver and gold. Second, he once was Britain's Warden of the Mint. In 1700, Newton fixed the price of gold, redefining the shilling, pound and pence so that 21 shillings and 6 pence ...
Kalichman, from the University of Connecticut, has compared the world of AIDS denial toa “beehive”: It looks like a chaotic mix of people, pursuing bad science and debunked ideas for their own particular ends. But if you look closer, what appears to be a swarm is actually “very well ...
Stanford did some things right. After the initial conference agenda was published in August, it was criticized on social media and in the science community (and by me) for mainstreaming an “anti-science agenda (and revisionist history),” in the ...
Today, so-called official (such as PRL, Nature, Science, PNAS, etc.) in physics stubbornly believes that two sets of cobalt-60 rotating in opposite directions can become two sets of objects that mirror each other, is a typical case that pseudoscience is rampant and domineering. Please witness...
we see a lot of pseudoscience and Silicon Valley snake oil. And the more we collect and the more we combine, the more there is a danger that we, as humans, trust technology too much and think that it is perfect. So this is why we should never go in a direction ...