How To Spot Pseudoscience
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- Опубліковано 14 бер 2013
- Alien fossils found in a meteorite?! Sounds amazing, but the science isn't there. And that's not the only example of hyped stories turning out to be, well, nothing. Trace gives you tips on how to tell the difference between science, and pseudoscience.
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"THE POLONNARUWA METEORITE: OXYGEN ISOTOPE, CRYSTALLINE AND BIOLOGICAL COMPOSITION"
arxiv.org/pdf/1303.1845v1.pdf
"Results of X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) analysis, Triple Oxygen Isotope analysis and Scanning Electron Microscopic (SEM) studies are presented for stone fragments recovered from the North Central Province of Sri Lanka following a witnessed fireball event on 29 December 2012."
"Astrobiologists Find Ancient Fossils in Fireball Fragments"
www.technologyreview.com/view/...
"Algae-like structures inside a Sri Lankan meteorite are clear evidence of panspermia, the idea that life exists throughout the universe, say astrobiologists."
"Alien space rocks EXPLODE in fireball over Japan"
www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/...
"Japanese star-gazers have been all a-buzz this week after a fireball lit up the night sky before crashing to earth in Saitama prefecture, a little north-west of Tokyo."
"10 Questions To Distinguish Real From Fake Science"
www.forbes.com/sites/emilywill...
"Pseudoscience is the shaky foundation of practices--often medically related--that lack a basis in evidence. "
"Extraterresterial Life Exists, Scientist Chandra Wickramasinghe Claims"
www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01...
"If a group of scientists are correct, tiny fossils uncovered inside a meteorite found in Sri Lanka in December are proof of extraterrestrial life."
"Meteorite Holds Proof of Extraterrestrial Life - Or Not"
www.livescience.com/26526-mete...
"A British professor of astrobiology has asserted in breathless tones that a meteorite found in Sri Lanka contains microscopic biological fossils - indisputable proof, he claims, that life exists beyond Earth."
"No, Diatoms Have Not Been Found in a Meteorite"
www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astron...
"If there's a story practically guaranteed to go viral, it's about evidence of life in space. And if you have pictures, why, that's going to spread like, well, like a virus."
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If only the Discovery CHANNEL would stop it with their pseudo-scientific shows *rolls eyes*
LeoM Whats Wrong with Battlebots?
Mostly history tv18
LeoM agreed, you can add History and TLC to the list of putting crap on the air.
They are the worst .. and the History Channel
I really think teaching about pseudoscience should be an essential component of all science education
Scientists are very quick to admit they're wrong.
That is, when you have this thing called evidence to support your claims.
Not if it cut the fund gov giving them. If then, "NO, YOUR EVIDENCES IS FAULTY"
My Biggest Retarded Pseudoscience is NEW AGE MOVEMENT! O.O
bee Mann Hey now, my favorite flirting bee. How have you been?
Paul TheSkeptic Hello handsome. I have been doing really good. How are you, sexy? ;)
bee Man Ha ha, very well thanks. We're going to have to move soon so that sucks but no biggie.
Paul TheSkeptic That's too bad. To where? ;o
bee Man Close by. Our place is being sold. It's kind of falling apart anyway. Everyone is eager to get into the new place now. The only thing that really sucks is, no where can you find a place this big for this cheap. .
"like kookaburra's at a barbecue" ?? WT ??
I've lived in Australia all my life and I've NEVER heard that expression.
Americans.. smh
my favorite pseudoscientific stories pertain to magic
List of psedoscience which many people firmly believe 1)Full moon and new moon effects on human body
2)astrology
3)homeopathy medicine
4)so called** negative energy and positive energy*** radiating from humans
5)effects of gems on human body'
Magic is not pseudoscience its supernatural
Scientology for the win. God bless Xenu
You are so brainwashed.
Woah.... I get it
@@bartoszszczepaniak169 whoosh
Xenu is god, YA IDIOT
@@sheeeitmayn4384 Xenu is a demon to all religions.
Quantum vibrations and stuff
Love the "you are what you eat" analogy! As for my favourite pseudoscience, I really like the Mermaids: The Body Found fake documentary. It's a really cool scifi idea but loads of people seem to think it's real...
Fact that this many people belive in pseudosince is worrying
I did not understand my parents. I was placed in Catholic Religious Education courses so as Catholic, I was baptized, and confirmed in the Catholic Church. Then, my dad talks about aliens and government conspiracies theories. My classmates in my regular schooling suspected my parents, because some of them never forgot me, but I never wanted to talk to my classmates again.
I love this channel. You guys are so good.
Hey... what do you guys think about the "starchild" skull??
Free energy articles bring my piss to a boil... I'm a chemical engineer
But does solar enery also does that. Cause it's definitely real. But when you have the solar panels, yes it's free. Unless you need to pay for sunlight.
@AbdooMs EG free energy is like those perpetual motion machines. The way to catch it will always cost money. But for all sources you need to have an energy input. This can be elecfricity or burning stuff, but also movement and those things.
Sunlight is also one of these things you can capture energy from. That's why the panels are dark. Absorbing light energy.
Further it is as close to "free energy" as we can get
Trace now has his own channel btw. Check it out by typing in trace dominguez
creationist proof hoaxes are hilarious. alien hoaxes make me sad. I
Sumeria
Whats even more hilarious is looking at people trying to find the “missing link.”
My favorite has to be ghosts... Emf, cold spots and super sensitive sound recordings a ghost doesn't make
How do you know ghost doesn’t make that sound where’s your backup evidence.
Also, the best pseudo science I've come across is the Electric Universe theory.
Welcome back to the land of observation and understanding :)
I read the whole Global warming argument a little below my comment, and i just have to say, those guys are my favorite pseudoscientist. none of them listen in physics class and none of them looked up anything while typing, and the best part is that none of them really knows how it works.
My favorite Pseudoscience is "Global warming is fake" because the ones who claim it always give such bad arguments for their claims. It's entertaining to watch hillie's claim otherwise.
And fun fact: Denmark has had three huge storms in the last year ( Alan, Bodil and Carl) before them, in my lifetime, we've only had another two.... just saying... three storms in an otherwise calm winded place...
Best pseudoscientists: those following the church of climatology.
Ugh, it seems everyone gets climate “information” from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). InterGOVERNMENTAL. Why doesn’t that throw EVERYONE into rage, or at least a critical thinking mode of evaluation? This is a GOVERNMENT-sponsored, GOVERNMENT-funded entity, predisposed to believing that climate change is a problem, hence of course, in need of a solution. Hmmm, no solution required, no $ to the “rescue.” It’s sad, but the entire movement has been politicized beyond repair. I implore you to think critically - educators often talk about how not employing critical thinking is damaging; rote and teaching to the test isn’t in our best interest, etc. Global climate change began about 4.5 billion years ago. Now, we are to be surprised, moreover alarmed, it hasn’t ceased? In historical perspective if we put the history of climate change equivalent to a year, the “critical” time referenced of the alarming change is ~1/5 of a second (late 1970s-~2000), roughly the time it takes you to read “1/5 of a second.” Key Note: early 70s are not included because “experts” warned we were going into an ice age. What’s worse, that 1/5 of a second is well within the normal range of natural variability and was in no way unusual compared to earlier episodes in earth’s climatic history. If you have not already, AT LEAST get a NON-governmental point of view. The Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) is multi-national, has true scientists, and IS NOT influenced by politics or gushes of $ coming in to persuade them to create a problem, which in turn, forces more $ to them and their interests to create a “solution.”
Joe Smith maybe because it's the UN were the government doesn't have a history of disappointment and secrets and conspiracy theories aren't a typical thing...
Joe smith. Major winter storms are part of climate change! Read a book! Extreme weather happens where the jet stream is. Where hot and cold meet. Wow, someone that can't understand the weather network! Lmfao!
vmwindustries, I bet you are glad you were not alive several centuries ago as you'd have been devastated by the little ice age. Think, no social media to try to get more people to light fires to combat the devastating "man-made" global cooling. Get a clue moron; global climate change began about 4.5 million years ago. The arrogance of you thinking it will stop now, since YOU have determined this is the appropriate climate of the multitudes of climates that have and will exist, and/or that actions you and/or others take will stop it (for the first time in 4.5 million years mind you) is pathetic. Face it, the battle you are fighting an impotent political battle that has NOTHING to do with science.
Better yet, you do a little research from an entity that is not driven to create/maintain a "problem" to keep their funding line flowing. One such as the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC). It's multi-national, has true scientists, and IS NOT influenced by politics or gushes of $ coming in to persuade them to create a problem, which in turn, forces more $ to them and their interests to create a “solution.” The whole Climategate crew is nothing short of a cult; but hey, what kind of major cult can thrive without sheep-like behavior of followers shoving money at them?
I liked the one where they could tell things about you by feeling/measuring your head.
I like the whole we live on a spinning rock with a pressurize atmosphere next to an infinite vacuum.
I cannot possibly argue with that because my wife and I were recently having a discussion on the gross lack of hoverboards at Wally Mart :/
i love you XD
seriously, it should be called "Aliens' History Channel"
I love this channel!
I love the whole astral projection and telekinesis stuff. Anything to do with Humans having fantastic abilities we didnt know about. I love the show Fringe
Hasn’t there been bacteria on comets and meteorites before? Which would mean it is alien whether that bacteria is also found on earth or not?
You're playing a game of semantics
new agers are my fave crazy group of people.
I've been philosophiseing for years now on how to make ah perpetcherul engine(I think it's called)(unlimited energy without common means of start up),I got most of the blueprints done but I'm stuck on one part,solution still unknown,I can build it but I need one vital part.
this actually works by logic,I thought it up like ah long!time ago,I'm just stuck.
either you contact me,I show you the design,if you steal it,I come after you,thus why no ones getting any more info from me.
Ok you go build some of his stuff and tell us how it all works. Especially that free energy gizmo.
I'll sub.
For anyone interested in watching pseudoscience get debunked, Potholer54 makes some really fun and informative videos.
Hehehe surpressed info... sounds like we are learning how to compress files :3
I suspect the small number of dislikes are either avid followers or publishers of "alternative" facts.
so, what ya say about astral projection, is it pseudo science?
It's not. It even has step-by-step instructions, although it's not a very long list.
1. Go to your local (legal) shop
2. Buy some weed
3. Profit
I love catastrophe theories!Like Niburu,or a supernovas hitting the earth,solar eruptions...I can't help it ..:)
Is there stuff about everyone having a magnet motor. They would be as common as yo-yo's by now, if they worked. But they are obviously not (no matter what they write about them, or try to tell us).
I thought you said "suppress files" instead of "compress files".
"favorite" is a loose term. Sometimes, things hurt my head and I laugh because my only alternative is to experience soul-crushing sadness at the folly of my fellow man.
What about Pawn Stars?
At the same time as maintaining vigilance against scientific fraud, I think we still need to have our minds open enough to not ridicule new discoveries that may at first sound ludicrous. Investigate with an open and logical mind, free of emotional barriers - to me, that is the essence of science.
FLAT EARTH!!
How could not include FE?
Dr. Christina also used the last Ferreira, which was her husbands last name. She had to be known in Connecticut.
RUMPOLOGY!!! Best/funniest pseudoscientific practice ever.
"Rumpology or 'Bottom Reading' is a neologism referring to a pseudoscience akin to physiognomy, performed by examining crevices, dimples, warts, moles and folds of a person's buttocks in much the same way a chirologist would read the palm of the hand."
=D =D
Let me read your buns! *squeeze squeeze*
free energy videos that UA-cam keeps recommending...
trust me, psychology (with its use of peer review, intense statistical & qualitative vetting processes & colleagues who are more suspicious of pseudoscience than hard sciences) is a science.
Gluten-Free, and GMOs
Gluten free is real. And GMO is happening for a long time. not only by cloning but selection, done by humans. And you eat GMO if you eat a banana or corn or a lot of other things.
+Dutchik yes they're real. Let me restate my statement. The bs science they throw out about them. Gluten-free healthier? Doesn't matter unless your the small percentage of the population that has Celiac. GMO bad? last time I check lots of claims were debunked with independent researchers about their claims. Even so it's been heavily researched and so far the byproduct of all these GMOs are a fatter society, meaning no one is going hungry.
+Dutchik basically, they're usung fear to get people to buy their products.
+Peter Thor but they always use fear to control people. always did. especially on politics. look at trump now. making people scared, and then saying he has the solution.
+Dutchik well no shits, but that doesn't mean we can not try to root out these scar tactic myths
Are Naturopaths involved in pseudoscience? Dr. Christine Kontomerkos in Trumbull. She had a naturopathic practice in Trumbull. Her office accepted insurance payments.
God. I miss the old days D-News
How didn't you comment on the "Baloney Detection Kit" inspired by Carl Sagan?! It's one of the best and most known referals to detect pseudo pscience in the geeky comunity!!!
Googling this now. Never heard of it
I am more familiar with "like blowflies on a barby" or "shit on a wool blanket" and one of my uncles fav sayings "like seagulls at a picnic".
I have to say apocalypses are my favorite.
String 'theory' is mostly in mathematics phase. I think the only experiments we can go on are the ATLAS-like ones. They are expensive though. You could say that is is bullshit because of no experimental evidence, but so could you say about the Higgs (before 2012-ish). The reason we think it's right is because it fits within the world of mathematics (as with Higgs). This is how many big particle physics discoveries have started out. It's in the starter phase.
"swoop down like kookaburras at a barbecue"
I've not heard that one before, but I like it. Unfortunately, kookaburras are getting obese from being fed/stealing food at barbecues.
wait so i'm not supposed to grab any and all pieces of visible food without any consideration. damn
I agree with that. But, nowadays the History Channel has to do with actual history as much as MTV has to do with actual music.
Hollow-earth theory - ignoring the fact of earthquakes and volcanoes since fuckknowswhen!
Ever heard of Ben Goldacre? His book bad science talks about pseudoscience in the media
Interesting. I still believe in Leprecauns, Big Foot, E.T.'s and The Loch Ness Monster
Ice cream on Apple pie is good shit
How is that pseudoscience? Other than it's usually referred to as string theory, even though it's not strings (only) and it's not really a theory...
The Sphinx is much more ancient/older, the piramids were built by someone else and there were more ancient/older civilizations in ancient Egypt.
Stardust is the richness of science, and of us. Nothing is impossible. We exist as sonar energy.
Kookaburras at a barbecue?
...
I grew up in Australia, and I question the validity of your simile.
:P
Someone needs to send this video to Dr. Oz cause some of his stuff seems a little iffy.
Nice, this ought to cover a lot. Hell most of youtube's "science" content.
Geocentrism! Cos it's the easiest to debunk!
I'm a sucker for Ancient Human civilizations that got wiped out after their space age and we had to start again.
God I wish it were true just to see if we evolved culturally identical.
WOW< Will Sasso is looking slim these days
Awesome dude just awesome
what if Dnews is Pseudoscience????
Pure Physics!
That's 'psychics' to you sir.
I don’t understand what the guys saying and he’s buffering doing it
Is it Dnews? Yeah? Pseudoscience
To my knowledge you are wrong because you missed out one surpressed invention... HOVERBOARDS we all know you gottem *shakes fist*
Well, I don't have that much knowledge about string theory so you might be right. Idk.
The "Sea Monster"
yep.. THAT is, up to this day, mostly a question of interpretation - of ancient history and art / artifacts, and believe. ^ ^ I like the idea though, it is very, yeah, convincing and all, but until no aliens show up, nobody will EVER find out because we can not travel back in time to visit those old days.. ^ ^ so, It will be an endless debate.
The "natural" nuts are my favourite.
Time travel, psychic phenomena, cryptozoology...
Magnet motors! Cos they are the easiest to debunk!
At least onions are not consumed in a rotten form by default...
History of game worlds (skyrim mincraft etc.)
I can't give this one enough thumbs up! I might use this video in comments.... Na... I don't want to start a war lol.
By intelligence I mean like humans, things that can think, have ideas, create things from scratch, unlike non-humans which live mostly by instinct, with a few species being able to do limited things.
my favorite BS would be the square eath theory (spinoff of the flat earth theory)
Bad science can come from relatively good news sources sometimes.
example?
My favorite Pseudoscience? I would have to say the History Channel, because really that's all it is now.
What you believe exist, exist... for you only
The word "quantum" is a much misused word in new-age-hippie-stuff. Like "Quantum medicine" and "Quantum spinal alignment". If they say quantum and it's not quantum physics, it's probably bullshit.
Agreed.
Comedy Central. Nuff said.
you said kookaburra wrong
Are you a physicist?
What?? You mean Pawn Stars & Swamp People don't count as historical?
The best pseudo science is related to nutrition, health, fitness. Like "get jacked in a moth, gain 25 piunds of lean muscle in 3 weeks" and stuff
oh and if you know how to spot the nutty stuff, those certain websites about conspiracies and pseude science can provide you with good laughs and entertainment
I like Astrology but not in the predict the future sense like horoscopes try to do.
I used to fall for volcanic medicine bullshit
You mean you fell into a volcano?
There has to be life out there, the universe is too big to not have created another Earth, bigger or smaller.
Whether it's intelligent or not is the question
biodynamic farming
People who dont Study History are bound to repeat it. We MUST study History. It is VERY important.
No, I'm not. As such, I leave it to people in the relevant field to debunk the bad science in their own field. A person who is in a different field, albeit somewhat related, doesn't do much to persuade anyone by complaining about a person. At least, that's how I see it.