Seven Rules For Spotting Bogus Science

keynet writes "Robert L. Park is a professor of physics at the University of Maryland at College Park and the director of public information for the American Physical Society, wrote a list of warning signs to help federal judges detect scientific nonsense. (OK, so it hasn't worked and the Patent Office sure hasn't got a copy.) As he says, 'There is no scientific claim so preposterous that a scientist cannot be found to vouch for it'. What he doesn't say is that there are plenty more who will invest in it or base legislation on it."

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Atheism

[Joe the Lesser]

Pardon the flame, but all these laws are also good for realizing that a divine power is a hoax as well.

The art of misinformation is similar no matter what the field, whether it's voodoo science or attempting to justify something that can't be proven like the mythology of religion.