Re: Too much pseudoscience on the Net

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gilgamesh@cyberconnect.com (Gilgamesh) writes: >
> >>On Sat, 04 Jan 1997, Jakob Ulmschneider
> >> wrote
> >>>pseudoscience outnumbers real science by 10 to 1.
>
> Ed Conrad wrote:
> >>Personally, I figure pseudoscience outnumbers real science by 100 --
> >>maybe 1,000 -- to 1.
>
> The only true application of science is asking questions.
> Regardless of what they are, or the outcome,
> a question is always good science.
>
>
> Gilgamesh
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This is a perfect example of "Sturgeon's Law" (Theodore Sturgeon, the
Science Fiction writer): 90 % of everything is crap! Yeah, 10 to 1. Jan

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