Pages Tagged “pseudoscience”
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- Gullible
There’s an old children’s joke that goes like this: “Did you know the word gullible isn’t in the dictionary?” Then when the other child goes to look it up, you laugh at them for believing you. On the face of it, it’s a lesson in not believing everything you hear. But when it comes down […]
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- Sci-Tech Links
Scientists have built a computer model of the Neanderthal vocal tract based on fossils, and have simulated the kinds of sounds they could have produced. Ever since I read Robert J. Sawyer’s Neanderthal Parallax novels, I’ve been fascinated by the idea that there were two distinct human species, living side by side, for perhaps thousands […]
- Bad Science. Good Sci-Fi.
There are certain ideas that I find completely acceptable in the context of science-fiction, but completely looney in the context of actual science. Take, for instance, Erich von Däniken’s premise that gods were really ancient alien astronauts. It’s an interesting idea, but it’s way out there in terms of science. It assumes that (a) myths […]