More Unscience
Posted: January 8th, 2019, 12:55 am
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In 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told medical staff at a Mumbai hospital that the story of the Hindu god Ganesha - whose elephant head is attached to a human body - showed cosmetic surgery existed in ancient India
EssDeeAitch wrote:Matt Ridley refers to this in his excellent article on the proliferation of psuedoscience in this weeks Spectator
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/03/lyi ... debunking/
‘The whole aim of practical politics,’ wrote H.L. Mencken, ‘is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.’ Newspapers, politicians and pressure groups have been moving smoothly for decades from one forecast apocalypse to another (nuclear power, acid rain, the ozone layer, mad cow disease, nanotechnology, genetically modified crops, the millennium bug…) without waiting to be proved right or wrong.
XFool wrote:The trouble with Matt Ridley for me is that, while riding his political hobby horse, he doesn't make a clear enough distinction between bad science, bad journalism and genuine pseudo science. He likes to lump everything together in one big pot.
EssDeeAitch wrote:Well I have to say that I don't quite see it that way and maybe because I am not scientifically educated enough or his political leaning is similar to mine or perhaps a bit of both. I do enjoy his books and articles but I shall look our for bias when next reading what he puts out.
30 points for claiming that your theories were developed by an extraterrestrial civilization (without good evidence).