Not exact matches
Pseudoscience never sees the need to
change, no matter how much evidence piles up against a theory.
Pseudoscience, however, does not
change as the facts and understanding
change.
Science necessitates
change based on new information;
pseudoscience resists
change regardless of scientific evidence.
This concern resulted in the Government
changing the rules for Free Schools to prevent them from teaching
pseudoscience (Richard Dawkins celebrates a victory over creationists, 15 January 2012).
Nonsense on Stilts by Massimo Pigliucci (University of Chicago Press) A tour of solid science, shaky science, and
pseudoscience, this crash course in critical thinking by biologist and philosopher Pigliucci includes handy rules for evaluating the confused public discourse on climate
change, evolution, and even UFOs.
I've written a lot about dogs and dominance and my take on this topic hasn't
changed at all, namely, dogs display dominance but dominance should not be used in training / teaching dogs to coexist with us or with other dogs [please see «Social Dominance is not a Myth,» «Dominance and
Pseudoscience: Making Sense of Nonsense,» renowned primatologist Dr. Dario Maestripieri's outstanding essay called «Social Dominance Explained: Part I» (in which he mildly takes me to task for trying to accommodate the deniers), and many links therein.]
Eugenie Scott and the NCSE have been very important in the fight against
pseudoscience and disinformation in the teaching of evolutionary theory, and this expansion to climate
change is a logical step.
«If climate
change denial
pseudoscience that breaks physical laws, is selective with evidence, and is full of mistakes is published, this tend to annoy sensible scientists».
«Climate
Change» IS the «
pseudoscience.»
He calls Climate
Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science «partisan pseudoscience,» yet immediately follows this claim by parroting the silliest of claims made by the truly partisan advocates of pseudoscience: «We know 97 % of climate scientists have concluded, based on the evidence, that anthropogenic climate change is real.&
Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science «partisan
pseudoscience,» yet immediately follows this claim by parroting the silliest of claims made by the truly partisan advocates of
pseudoscience: «We know 97 % of climate scientists have concluded, based on the evidence, that anthropogenic climate
change is real.&
change is real.»
Otto's explanation of the climate
change denial machine provides a compelling narrative that places the «controversy» in the context of science's slipping authority vis - a-vis political rhetoric and
pseudoscience that passes for fact.
This is evident in the rejection of the undeniable reality of climate
change by many of Trump's top appointees, the promotion to power of individuals who reject the fact of evolution in favor of
pseudoscience and religious fundamentalism, the spreading of bad medical science around the proven safety of vaccines, and the refusal to study the health risks of guns.
«
Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood»... Except in the case of climate
change.