Science makes top ten worst ideas of all time

The Washington Post, famous for its outside-of-the-box thinking on scientific matters, has published a list of the worst ideas of the last one hundred years (sorry for the hyperbolifics in the title). Not surprisingly, science shows up not one, not two, not four, but three times. First, medical science, then technology, then geography. The sciences [...]

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Dark matter? (part two)

Many of you read my first post on Dark Matter. Some people, particularly Miss Sophismata, didn’t quite get it. Therefore in this post I’m going to expand greatly on my thoughts. It will include some overlap, but not very much. It is important that I, for example, am more explicit about precisely how the analogy [...]

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Dark matter? (part one)

Did you know that the concept of “Dark Matter” was actually invented by primarily American novelists? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter_in_fiction Belief in Dark Matter has roughly the same validity as a small child’s belief that there is a monster in his closet. He can’t see anything, his parents aren’t home, the closet is dark, and its properties don’t [...]

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