By: meehawl
claims on this scale are a good hint to update your belief that you're dealing with a kook And I'm amazed nobody's mentioned Wolfram yet.
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there are many more crazy people claiming to be the new Einstein than there are new Einsteins Cue ob Carl Sagan quote: They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also...
View ArticleBy: ROU_Xenophobe
limits of detection - aren't most scientific discoveries first seen at the limit of detection? They don't stay there. The first extrasolar planet took a lot of work, now they're being found every...
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aren't most scientific discoveries first seen at the limit of detection?I'm also fairly confident that no new laws of nature were introduced to deal with lasers. Well I think my favourite from a couple...
View ArticleBy: mote
(That should read "made correct predictions where the standard model failed" instead of "correctly explained observations".)
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meaddict: They're just suggesting that announcements that meet this criteria should be subjected to extra scrutiny -- not that they're automatically false. The fact that some breakthroughts accepted as...
View ArticleBy: Octaviuz
mediaddict, I've got one more word for you, prions. Everybody in the community knows that germs and only germs can cause disease.
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Counter-examples: 1. talks directly to media - Rachel Carson wrote "Silent Spring" mainly for the public, not scientists... 2. establishment pushback - she was threatened with lawsuits and ridiculed by...
View ArticleBy: Ynoxas
8. The findings come from a think tank with the word "family" in its name. posted by Ignatius J. Reilly at 6:37 PM CST on October 11 Teh winnar.
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I like my rules concise: all real science is falsifiable. Of course, there are pathological instances when a wobbly theorymutates endlessly thanks to a desire of its adherents to avoid loss of ego. In...
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8. The findings come from a think tank with the word "family" in its name.
View ArticleBy: mr_roboto
It is not the role of the patent office to judge whether an invention works as claimed, or even whether it can work at all based on the laws of physics as currently understood. While this is generally...
View ArticleBy: kozad
Wellstated warning signs, and I say this as one who, as a mushy-minded poetic mystic type, often say "Hmmm..." to purported "discoveries." So you are not just preaching to the converted by posting...
View ArticleBy: DevilsAdvocate
The Patent and Trademark Office recently issued Patent 6,362,718 for a physically impossible motionless electromagnetic generator, which is supposed to snatch free energy from a vacuum. I'd like to...
View ArticleBy: Krrrlson
Hmm, would inquiring minds also want to *do* my laundry? Because if so, I won't rest until all you see on the news will be my socks. Oh, and Sidhedevil - that is an OUTRAGE! What we ought to do is post...
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Dammit, Krrrlson! Inquiring minds want to see your laundry. Well, it's unlikely the damn liberal media would give your laundry the coverage it deserves. Wait a minute, I mean it's unlikely that the...
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