philosophycorner: How to Use the Feynman Technique to Identify Pseudoscience By Simon Oxenham In lat
How to Use the Feynman Technique to Identify Pseudoscience
In late 2015, a study made headlines worldwide by bluntly demonstrating the human capacity to be misled by “pseudo-profound bullshit” from the likes of Deepak Chopra, infamous for making profound sounding yet entirely meaningless statements by abusing scientific language.
This is all well and good, but how are we supposed to know that we are being misled when we read a quote about quantum theory from someone like Chopra, if we don’t know the first thing about quantum mechanics?
Sun, 16 Apr 2017 19:20:50
