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A laughable claim, mister Bond, perpetuated by overzealous teachers of science.


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Oh those silly scientists and their never ending fear mongering.

These people deserve to be bashed. The next thing they'll say would contradict another established scientific theory and then they would ask to include it in curriculum.

Wikipedia has gone from being an encyclopedia to “here is generally what the media has said about this and if you say otherwise fuck you

Most espouse the claim that they appreciate science, but I think really people appreciate James Bond gadgets and call that science.


It backfires badly when pop science writers draw their audience in with patently false claims that just make math seem like nonsense.

Science has gone too far.

Science has gone too far.

Science has gone too far.

Science has gone too far.

This is what dressing nonsense up as science looks like.

Those damn scientists don't know what they're talking about anyway. /s

Science Misconceptions in Textbooks and Popular culture

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1771101


I rest my case. Cartoonish levels of “hard”-science-nerd arrogance.

There's nothing "sharp" about these people. If they were sharp they'd be spending their free time solving hard problems (which include cancer, aids, Alzheimer's) rather than maintaining an imaginary clock. Absolute nonsense, these "scientist" should be ashamed of themselves and in my mind they've already lost all credibility.

Whether or not it's truly what they claim it is, it does seem the scientists believe what they are claiming.

No one spends this much effort trying to get their name associated with a discovery that they know is a fraud.


- "not even True" headline

- grand assertions about complex subjects, which aren't justified in any way

- wildly incoherent terms and nonsense thought experiments

- basic errors in science, which are so fundamentally confused that you instantly know the author is completely clueless about the subject

- "some in X group believe" while either zero percent or a hundred percent of group X believes in that statement

Yep, it is grade A nonsense pop science.


I agree with you. Your comment totally reminded me of SCIgen [0].

[0] http://news.mit.edu/2015/how-three-mit-students-fooled-scien...


Is it just me, or does "scientific overreach" sound like a terrible euphemism?

If the same people were on late-night TV peddling this, I doubt we'd be calling it "overreach".

For those of us who truly love science, it's important to treat these things exactly the same, whether it's a newspaper article, TED talk, or "Incredible Mysteries" TV show. Being mealy-mouthed isn't doing anybody any favors.


"Adults don't take this seriously and neither should you"

Alternately:

"Your suspicions are correct. There is no room for fun or playfulness in Science."


I think one of the comments of the linked article made the best point, his science teacher should have caught the mistake. Education and journalism FAIL...
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