One of my favorite episodes from the "bad science" files ... (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 15, 2011, 12:36 PM

first read about this in "Betrayers of the Truth". http://www.amazon.com/Betrayers-truth-William-Broad/dp/0671447696 The University of Nancy had just been established at great taxpayer expense and the faculty felt a need to justify the investment, so were quite anxious to discover something important. Not a good situation re. scientific objectivity.

Worth reading: http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/signs.html and

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Here's a good piece on N-rays and several similar cases of apparent self-delusion: [View all]	struggle4progress	Dec 2011	OP
Interesting; also sounds a bit like 'canals of Mars'	muriel_volestrangler	Dec 2011	#1
SJ Gould wrote a very interesting essay on Lowell's reasoning:	struggle4progress	Dec 2011	#2
One of my favorite episodes from the "bad science" files ...	eppur_se_muova	Dec 2011	#3

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