Showing posts with label Pseudo-science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pseudo-science. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Therefore Sabine

 


Is causality an emergent property? And what does that even mean? Sabine hopes that quantum physics can be made more logical and less woo-woo-ish, but a recent paper on the topic falls short of this. Or so she believes. Since I´ve been up most of the night, I hardly understand what she´s talking about, but I´m sure it´s interesting...

Monday, August 3, 2026

A universe in a grain of sand


 

Or 9 out of 10 on a bullshit meter? Sabine isn´t *terribly* impressed by the recent headlines about some scientist creating a "mini-universe" in a lab, und so weiter. 

Friday, July 31, 2026

This sentence is a lie, that is the truth


Overheard on the interwebs: "If you don't read the papers you are uninformed, if you do read the papers you are misinformed."

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Light in darkness

 


Overheard on the internets: scientists just disconfirmed some old experiment from the 1990´s which supposedly proved the existence of dark matter particles. What did I tell you, chat...

Dark matter aint real. And the light shineth in the darkness. 

Saturday, July 18, 2026

Heavy water

 


Damn. It seems to be official now: the mysterious object 3I/ATLAS isn´t an alien probe (pun unintended) but an entirely natural object. A kind of comet, in fact, made of "heavy water" and other mundane substances. Blasted!

On the positive side, the comet could be 12 billion years old (!) and give us clues to how solar systems were formed in the early universe ("early" if you believe in the Big Bang). Clue: probably not as ours. It struck me that this could have some kind of consequences, too. For instance, does it make it more likely or less likely that alien star systems might harbor intelligent life (or any life)? 

Friday, July 17, 2026

The case against reality

 


Sabine Hossenfelder tries to take Donald Hoffman seriously, but it just doesn´t work. She gives Hoffman a ten out of ten on her "bullshit meter", claiming he´s "not even wrong". Apparently, Hoffman recently published a paper trying to prove mathematically that aliens seen during psychedelic trips are real. I think even people who do believe in aliens and/or psychedelics might find that approach a bit...trippy. 

Sunday, July 12, 2026

Back to the things themselves

 


Our man Formscapes (the mutant Anthroposophist) just came up with a new term: "physicalist traditionalism". If you want science to go back to its state circa 1890, you are a physicalist traditionalist. Common sense science before Einstein, the Copenhagen interpretation and (I would guess) all the dark matter bullshit. And common sense materialism, too! Differently put: there is no such thing as "quantum mysticism" independent of quantum physics, indeed, QM *is* quantum mysticism. It´s woo-woo all the way down to the super-strings.  

Had I been a consistent materialist, I would probably be a "physicalist traditionalist". And while Marxism isn´t exactly that (due to its implicit teleology derived from one Hegel), there is certainly a family likeness. See Lenin´s "Materialism and Empirio-Criticism". 

I admit a strong sympathy for this position even though I don´t consider myself a "physicalist"...

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

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Thursday, July 2, 2026

Bullet cluster

 


Is it finally over for dark matter and (maybe) Einstein? Sabine Hossenfelder may have found the silver bullet...

Monday, June 29, 2026

Ancient aliens, modern hoaxes

 


This is obviously a hoax or some kind of avantgarde art project. Of course it´s not ancient aliens. Why? Because the "carvings" look exactly how ancient aliens are supposed to look like *according to the expectations of current (mostly American) pop culture*. What are the chances?

Even Dan Dedunking doesn´t seem to believe in these "artifacts". Yes, we´re talking about the guy who thinks Easter Island is Atlantis! I mean, dude. 

Sunday, June 28, 2026

The God molecule

 


Materialists are funny. So supposedly consciousness comes from some kind of quantum effects related to phosphorus molecules. Or something. Sabine isn´t buying it, but even if true, how does this disprove "God" or "the Divine"? So a certain kind of phosphorus can give rise to subjective lived experience, wow, sounds like the God molecule or something... 

Thursday, June 11, 2026

Cuspy halo problem

 


End it already, we need a new cosmology pronto! Yes, this makes science (or certain branches thereof) a laughing stock...

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

The third eye

 

Credit: Poojn India 

So has science finally proved that the pineal gland is our third eye? Guess what the mystics, occultists and "enthusiasts" will do with *that* discovery? Muh-hah-hah-hah!

The paradigm shift is here, boyz & girlz.

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

In the shadow

 


UAPs and transients are real. It´s peer reviewed at this point. Deal with it. And yes, scientists are afraid to speak out. Not because of MIBs or the CIA. The problem is ridicule from "the scientific community" (and the Skeptic movement). Boundary policing, as it were.

But don´t worry, Sabine has promised to keep us up-to-date on ongoing UAP research. Thanks for your attention to this matter. 

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Cross-references aren´t divinely inspired, you fuckheads

 


This is *really* low IQ, or perhaps an early April Fool´s joke? Or is there a "Christian" version of Reddit? 

Anyone who takes this seriously deserves a punch in the face. Modern cross-references doesn´t fucking prove that God wrote the Bible. Anymore than ditto footnotes or maps of Paul´s journeys. Note also that the Bible is said to have 66 books. Ahem, yeah, so about that...that´s the Protestant version of the canon, you morons, which isn´t even original.

So the "research" was simply to program a computer with all the standard (Protestant) Biblical cross-references? You know, the ones put there by a 21st century editor. "The Bible Code" wasn´t true either, but at least it wasn´t this lazy! The skeptics had to do *some* legwork on that one.

Somebody should be fired for this.   

New Bible analysis uncovers thousands of clues suggesting scripture written by God