Science vs. Pseudoscience, Nonscience, and NonsenseJames AlcockSkeptical Inquirer
And I think ordinary people with commonsense ideas are intimidated by this pseudoscience. 在我看来,那些有点常识的普通人都被这种伪科学唬住了. 互联网摘选 6、 Once he said that pseudoscience is embraced in exact proportion as real science in misunderstood. 他曾经说过,真科学被误解多少,伪科学就有多...
Science is under attack from those who believe that truth is relative and from those who reject the critical standards of science in favor of comforting pseudoscientific beliefs. Be prepared to defend science by understanding the philosophy of science so that you can marshal your arguments against ...
two quarreled over who should give way, which resulted in Oedipus killing the stranger and continuing on to Thebes. He found that the king of the city (Laius) had been recently killed and that the city was at the mercy of the Sphinx. Oedipus answered the monster's riddle correctly, defe...
Any uncertainty that the chemistry community may have about the nature and existence of water clusters is not apparently shared by the various "inventors" who have not only "discovered" these elusive creatures, but who claim findings that science has never even dreamed of! These promoters have sp...
For example, this sales site says that the device "transforms the dissolved calcium carbonate (temporary hardness) into non-charged, neutral chemical bonds. These bonds are completely stable and cannot attach to any surfaces. The chemical bonds are rinsed away by the water flow. The size of ...
The Moon orbits Earth in an elliptical, or elongated orbit, however, and not in a circular orbit. Thus during about 55-60% of its orbit the Moon is far enough from Earth ("apogee") that it is too small to cover the Sun's surface completely. During the remaining portion of its ...
that should be in place to ensure the accuracy of results was lacking. Integrity of testing is a mere assumption and in this case results cannot be deemed reliable. Again reflecting the problems with McKernon’s study, there is no cold chain to speak of, much less that which is demanded ...
This analysis presents a detailed defense of my epidemiologic research in the May 17, 2003 British Medical Journal that found no significant relationship between environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and tobacco-related mortality. In order to defend the hone
reviews (1,2) published in 1985 describe the cardiac and non-cardiac effects of digitalis, and makes it clear that the effects of digitalis on blood pressure are essentially the same in dogs and humans but differ according to the health of the dog or human heart and the size of the dose...