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Originally Posted by sjastro
"Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science."
An article from Quackwatch.
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Steven |
Yep.
It is hard to say which sign is THE most important, but my opinion is it is this one (discussed earlier in this section, if I remember correctly)
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6. The discoverer has worked in isolation.
The image of a lone genius who struggles in secrecy in an attic laboratory and ends up making a revolutionary breakthrough is a staple of Hollywood's science-fiction films, but it is hard to find examples in real life. Scientific breakthroughs nowadays are almost always syntheses of the work of many scientists.
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