Comments on: Sunday Stuff 1: Cosmology meets New Age Nonesense — Karadzic edition http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/sunday-stuff-1-cosmology-meets-new-age-nonesense-karadzic-edition/ science and the public square -- by thomas levenson Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:32:30 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Tom http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/sunday-stuff-1-cosmology-meets-new-age-nonesense-karadzic-edition/#comment-973 Tom Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:37:58 +0000 http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/?p=448#comment-973 Bora: That thread is fun; and the point in its originating post is valid, though sadly deflating. Sean: Precision Quackery seems a perfect term of art. I will appropriate it, with attribution, of course. As for searching for explicit connection, it is a feature and not a bug of Sunday posts that they purvey (with the right warning labels) the kinds of stories that in my real journalism days we called "too good to check." Bora: That thread is fun; and the point in its originating post is valid, though sadly deflating.

Sean: Precision Quackery seems a perfect term of art. I will appropriate it, with attribution, of course.

As for searching for explicit connection, it is a feature and not a bug of Sunday posts that they purvey (with the right warning labels) the kinds of stories that in my real journalism days we called “too good to check.”

]]> By: Sean Carroll http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/sunday-stuff-1-cosmology-meets-new-age-nonesense-karadzic-edition/#comment-972 Sean Carroll Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:34:13 +0000 http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/?p=448#comment-972 I actually wondered whether there was supposed to be an explicit connection with the famous (in certain circles) percentages of ordinary matter/dark matter/dark energy, but I couldn't find one. We've certainly entered the Age of Precision Cosmology, so why not the Age of Precision Quackery? I actually wondered whether there was supposed to be an explicit connection with the famous (in certain circles) percentages of ordinary matter/dark matter/dark energy, but I couldn’t find one.

We’ve certainly entered the Age of Precision Cosmology, so why not the Age of Precision Quackery?

]]> By: Bora Zivkovic http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/sunday-stuff-1-cosmology-meets-new-age-nonesense-karadzic-edition/#comment-971 Bora Zivkovic Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:18:37 +0000 http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/?p=448#comment-971 You may like <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2008/07/enough_with_radovan_karadzic.php" rel="nofollow">this thread</a> as well.... You may like this thread as well….

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