Not exact matches
What I find incredible about Thorp's example is
not only that maximized his understanding and beat the market, but that he avoided the
quackery and hubris that can so often bedevil people who have ventured so far from the average.
Oh and Jerry... your «earned Ph.D. from an accredited institution» is clearly
not in the sciences... LOL All those thousands of scientists who you claim believe in your young earth
quackery?
Thus it came
not only to mean a concern for a person's psycho - social (as well as physical) well - being, but it came also to include some practices which remain untested and which strike some as
quackery.
We are at the era of Charlatanism,
Quackery & Delusion... Pure Religions are a good thing but Religious one's might be misguided to astray beyond the truth by swindlers into becoming as dark as it reflects; - Say, «O People of the Scripture, do
not exceed limits in your religion beyond the truth and do
not follow the inclinations of a people who had gone astray before and misled many and have strayed from the soundness of the way.»
In a world where Reichian
quackery rules, we do
not debate the limits of modesty for the simple reason that the very concept of modesty itself is illegitimate, a fundamentally oppressive notion.
As the results of such de facto
quackery becomes evident at great cost to the Nigerian economy and its people, you may of course expect some to conjure up alternative academic theories to explain why a recession is
not such a bad thing!
«It could have been «
quackery,»» he says, «but they didn't have a position in that.»
The results underline «how, for most people, knowing genetic risk information doesn't have a big impact,» said Timothy Caulfield, of the University of Alberta, a critic of
quackery.
Some sites allow anyone to initiate campaigns, but others sift through scientific proposals and try to screen out those which do
not have academic affiliations or are obvious
quackery.
At the same time, the openness did seem to be based in evidence and the conversation didn't descend into
quackery, which led me to sign up and give it a try.»
I wouldn't call it
quackery, I would simply call it misuderstood.
Controlling your weight does
NOT require eating certain foods and avoiding others, combing foods in specific ways, or any other type of
quackery.
Doesn't always work but should we throw it out as being absolute
quackery?
As a healthful supplement I should like to recommend an earlier, polemical view of the major problem that confronts us in education: Albert Lynd's
Quackery in the Public Schools, a neglected 1953 book whose title is
not yet out of date.
Yep, like it or
not that «
quackery» is necessary!
Whether it is homeopathic medicine and other medical
quackery, intelligent design «theory», or complex and open global systems, it is important to look
not only at the data that is produced, but the motivations for arriving at that data.
One does
not have to be a rocket scientist to recognize the global warming prediction
quackery that constantly flows from the taxpayer - funded, government sanctioned, computer climate models.