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What is Pseudoscience?
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Re: What is Pseudoscience?
In the absence of God, I found Man.
-Guillermo Del Torro
Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
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Are you pushing your own short comings on us and safely hating them from a distance?
Is this the virtue of faith? To never change your mind: especially when you should?
Young Earth Creationists take offense at the idea that we have a common heritage with other animals. Why is being the descendant of a mud golem any better?
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Re: What is Pseudoscience?
It's in the Do You Believe in Ghosts thread.youkrst wrote:
/wanders off to find chicken article
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Re: What is Pseudoscience?
I was just about to say that exactly.The candle that just jumps into a vat of acid wearing a tinfoil hat and screaming obscenities, is probably best forgotten.
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Re: What is Pseudoscience?
goldThe unsuspecting bird had never looked so delicious as he did that, now famous, day. Clara Olsen was planning on featuring the plump chicken in the evening meal.
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Re: What is Pseudoscience?
What are you guys talking about?? Chicken article? Can you link to it so I can laugh too?
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Re: What is Pseudoscience?
http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/story.php
it's from the do you believe in ghosts thread
oh god, the laughter, it hurts
it's from the do you believe in ghosts thread
oh god, the laughter, it hurts
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Re: What is Pseudoscience?
LOLChris OConnor wrote:I was just about to say that exactly.The candle that just jumps into a vat of acid wearing a tinfoil hat and screaming obscenities, is probably best forgotten.
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Re: What is Pseudoscience?
Our recent visitor took the story of the headless chicken as evidence that the mind does not reside in the brain. I was laughing mostly at the article he posted which said that after the chicken had its head cut off, "the determined bird shook off the traumatic event and never looked back. Mike returned to his job of being a chicken. He pecked for food and preened his feathers just like the rest of his barnyard buddies."
But apparently there really was a chicken named Mike that lived for 18 months after having its head mostly cut off. I doubt it did much pecking or preening though.
This from Life Magazine.
"What Mrs. Olson’s ax had done was to clip off most of the skull but leave intact one ear, the jugular vein and the base of the brain, which controls motor function.”
http://life.time.com/curiosities/mike-t ... chicken/#1
But apparently there really was a chicken named Mike that lived for 18 months after having its head mostly cut off. I doubt it did much pecking or preening though.
This from Life Magazine.
"What Mrs. Olson’s ax had done was to clip off most of the skull but leave intact one ear, the jugular vein and the base of the brain, which controls motor function.”
http://life.time.com/curiosities/mike-t ... chicken/#1
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Re: What is Pseudoscience?
Climate deniers are accused of practicing pseudoscience, as are intelligent design creationists, astrologers, UFOlogists, parapsychologists, practitioners of alternative medicine, and often anyone who strays far from the scientific mainstream. The boundary problem between science and pseudoscience, in fact, is notoriously fraught with definitional disagreements because the categories are too broad and fuzzy on the edges, and the term “pseudoscience” is subject to adjectival abuse against any claim one happens to dislike for any reason. In his 2010 book Nonsense on Stilts (University of Chicago Press), philosopher of science Massimo Pigliucci concedes that there is “no litmus test,” because “the boundaries separating science, nonscience, and pseudoscience are much fuzzier and more permeable than Popper (or, for that matter, most scientists) would have us believe.”