For me, I'd rather not waste time dealing with a thousand pseudoscientific ideas. One of them may actually have something valuable to say, but it isn't like it will be totally lost forever. Anything valuable will eventually turn up as science progresses, whereas history is replete with half baked claims that are a waste of time.

 

Science is the best way we have of knowing what is going on.

 

My two cents,

David Reeve

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From: Hari Kumar

To: [address removed]

Sent: Thursday, April 12,[masked]:50 AM

Subject: Re: [physicsnorthyork] Science (and what it's not)

I am at work right now, so I need to keep my message as brief as possible. I will respond to this in detail later today. However I have just this to say at the moment. The true skeptical scientist should begin by being skeptical of even skepticism itself and its role in science. Instead of blindly following the herd and copy pasting links from Wikipedia it would do one well to challenge the existing paradigms and question their validity in an unbiased manner. To me, I would suffer a thousand so called pseudoscientific ideas, rather than risk losing a single discovery that could have changed the world.

Regards, Hari

On Apr 12,[masked]:24 AM, "Hugh" <[address removed]> wrote:

Something can’t be physics without being science.

It’s important to know what science is.

It can also be illuminating (and fun) studying what science is not:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience

 

There’s some crazy stuff out there, that puzzles and delights scientists.

Quantum biology included.

Quantum biology is a recent and surprising discovery,

and full of legitimate and well done science.

 

There’s plenty of pseudoscience too,

much of it based on politics and wishful thinking.

Environmental science is rife with this sort of evangelical propaganda, for example.

 

Then there is criminal fraud,

using the trappings of science to prey on human nature

and bilk people out of money.

This is the category the dangerous THRIVE videos fall solidly into.

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