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“Following the Post Modernist route, we may indeed never arrive at meaning, but not because meaning is not there... only because we are lost in endless linguistic games that are entirely beside the point.”
― Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
― Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
“Science progresses. Ideology tends to linger unchanged, and often unquestioned.”
― Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
― Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
“...the real threat from cranks is not that their customers might die -- there is the odd case, although it seems crass to harp on about them - but that they systematically the public's understanding about the very nature of evidence.”
― Bad Science
― Bad Science
“For example, a set of twenty-five studies involving five hundred astrologers examined the average degree of agreement between astrological predictions. In social science, such as in psychology, tests that have less than o.8 (i.e., 8o percent) agreement level are considered unreliable. Astrology's reliability is an embarrassingly low o. I, with a variability around the mean of o.o6 standard deviations. This means that there is, on average, no agreement at all among the predictions made by different astrologers.”
― Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
― Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
“Scientific theories are tested every time someone makes an observation or conducts an experiment, so it is misleading to think of science as an edifice, built on foundations. Rather, scientific knowledge is more like a web. The difference couldn’t be more crucial. A tall edifice can collapse – if the foundations upon which it was built turn out to be shaky. But a web can be torn in several parts without causing the collapse of the whole. The damaged threads can be patiently replaced and re-connected with the rest – and the whole web can become stronger, and more intricate.”
― Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
― Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
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