Five things that modern science cannot explain:

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49. This is a very common trait of woo proponents.

* They conveniently ignore the science and make up their own.
* They malign science by saying it doesn't know everything.
* Then, they joyfully cite science when they perceive that it backs up their falsified claims. (It doesn't.)

It is a puzzlement why they do not see the problem with these tactics.

Meanwhile, science moves on, plugging away at some very difficult problems while the woo folks are still stuck in -- in some cases -- 200 year old falsified stuff, for instance homeopathy.

Science sees all this and just shake their heads.

The intimidation is that science is not easy. It's based on mathematics. If the people advocating woo would bother to learn actual science they'd see why their hypotheses are not taken seriously and why some otherwise seemingly far out hypotheses, like strings, are taken seriously.

About strings...

Albert Einstein had to come to grips with a whole new mathematics to solve General Relativity. It is one of the most astounding advances in mathematical physics ever. The string theorists are attempting to do something similar. Just as GR added dimensions to the universe, the string model does so also. Nobody can detect the higher dimensions in strings anymore than they can see them in GR. We only see the effects of them. The string model is very complex and difficult. Myself, I believe William of Okham's razor gives strings a big shave. There are quite a few physicists who would agree with that.

But string theorists still work under the science methodology. They are accountable to the checks and balances. Woo adherents do none of that. They snipe from the sidelines and they still want to be taken seriously. That's why they are not. That, plus the fact that their claims have been long since falsified.

I'm done here.