Comments on: Bogus Science and Other Christmas Gifts http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2009/11/bogus-science-and-other-christmas-gifts.html Experiments and Thoughts on Quackery, Health Beliefs and Pseudoscience Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:52:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Mojo http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2009/11/bogus-science-and-other-christmas-gifts.html#comment-9089 Mojo Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:06:05 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2009/11/bogus-science-and-other-christmas-gifts.html#comment-9089 Interesting comment from page 260 of <i>Discarded Science</i>:<br /><br />"It's an obvious rule of thumb that only a scientific illiterate would attempt to use a lawsuit to influence a scientific debate" Interesting comment from page 260 of Discarded Science:

"It's an obvious rule of thumb that only a scientific illiterate would attempt to use a lawsuit to influence a scientific debate"

]]> By: Dr Aust http://www.quackometer.net/blog/2009/11/bogus-science-and-other-christmas-gifts.html#comment-9074 Dr Aust Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:12:25 +0000 http://www.quackometer.net/wpblog/2009/11/bogus-science-and-other-christmas-gifts.html#comment-9074 My favourite Unicorn pseudoscience reference is the one about the <i>Nature</i> "investigation team" that went to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Benveniste" rel="nofollow">Jacques Benveniste's lab,</a> and specifically James Randi trying to explain to Benveniste why they are (at least as Benveniste sees it) trying to shoot down his experiment.<br /><br />““If I told you that I keep a goat in the backyard of my house” Randi said “…and if you happened to have a man nearby, you might ask him to look over my garden fence, when he’d say “That man keeps a goat”. But what would you do if I said “I keep a unicorn in my backyard?””<br /><br /><i>Nature</i> 334, 287-290 (28 July 1988) | doi:10.1038/334287a0<br /><br />I wrote about this in <a href="http://draust.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/journals-of-alternative-medicine-insufficient-scepticism-cargo-cult-science/" rel="nofollow">an old blogpost.</a> My favourite Unicorn pseudoscience reference is the one about the Nature "investigation team" that went to Jacques Benveniste's lab, and specifically James Randi trying to explain to Benveniste why they are (at least as Benveniste sees it) trying to shoot down his experiment.

““If I told you that I keep a goat in the backyard of my house” Randi said “…and if you happened to have a man nearby, you might ask him to look over my garden fence, when he’d say “That man keeps a goat”. But what would you do if I said “I keep a unicorn in my backyard?””

Nature 334, 287-290 (28 July 1988) | doi:10.1038/334287a0

I wrote about this in an old blogpost.

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