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."

Comments

Like evolution you mean?

[91degrees]

Darwin proposed his "Theory of evolution" in a book. The equivalent of TV as far as popular media at the time goes. Proponents of this claim that it is always being supressed by religious groups, and local government officials.

Fortunately, they have chosen a theory that can't be proved, and only has anecdotal evidence. Animals 1 000 000 years ago were different, so we must have evolution.

The only way this could possibly be true is for Darwin to propose a new law of nature!

Re:Evidence of macroevolution

[_Eric]

Because christians *ARE* morons.
(applies to any religion to be honest)

Typical Slashdot

[KalvinB]

Criticize "Creationism" and it's Insightful. Criticize "Evolution" and it's flamebait.

Instead of being a hypocritical mod, respond to my problems with evolution. Prove to me my dead cat thrown in a cave won't be considered 10 million years old.

You can't because it's common practice to date the rock of things that are too old to get any carbon out of.

Ben

Re:Typical Slashdot

[KalvinB]

Are you going to be around in 3000 years when it's a fossilized dead cat?

I know they'll think it's 10 million years old because it's standard "scientific" practice to date the rock around things that are too old to be dated themselves.

Ben