Venerable bodies like the Royal Society almost never criticise journalists for being excessively alarmist, only for being too lukewarm, and increasingly behave
like pseudoscientists, explaining away inconvenient facts.
In the Soviet Union, the ideas of Trofim Lysenko, an
anti-Darwinian pseudoscientist, were preferred over reality, contributing to disastrous agricultural policies.
Oil and coal companies in the United States have joined in a conspiracy to
hire pseudoscientists to deny the facts, and then begin raising political arguments that are essentially fraudulent.
Plus, CTFD makes you immune to those that prey upon the fears of new parents,
like pseudoscientists and parenting authors.
The pseudoscientist, like the bullshitter, is less in touch with the truth and less concerned with it than either the fraudster or the liar.
Princeton University historian of science Michael D. Gordin adds in his forthcoming book The Pseudoscience Wars (University of Chicago Press, 2012), «No one in the history of the world has ever self - identified as
a pseudoscientist.
But it will not be found as long as cold fusion researchers «are treated as cranks and
pseudoscientists,» Kowalski says.
I'd like to see some names, like that of Big Oil and Big Coal, and
the pseudoscientists being paid to shill for fossil fuel companies, to lie and distort and conspire against American governance for their private, financial or political gain.
Taylor gleaned Secretary Babbitt's quote from the public radio Diane Rehm show, in which the unabridged quote has Babbitt claiming the «fraudulent arguments» by «
pseudoscientists» were...
The eleventy - millionth recitation of
the pseudoscientist credo: you need to be a climate scientist to identify scientific misconduct.