Donald Simanek's Pages; science, pseudoscience, education, humor. (original) (raw)

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The Museum of Unworkable Devices. Perpetual motion machines
as physics puzzles.
Intelligent Design Creationism. Fraudulent Science, Bad Philosophy.
Myths and Mysteries of Science. Removing the mystery.
Cutting Edge Science. Profundity or parody?
Illustrated Lectures on these subjects.
Uncle Don's Notebook. | Bob Schadewald's Corner.
Physics and Astronomy. |Physics Abused. |Physics Puzzles.
History and Philosophy of Science.
Skepticism, pseudoscience, urban Legends.
Humor, satire, parody, mostly about science.
Hoaxes. |The Ed-Biz. | Quotes. | Illusions and 3-D photography.
Articles written for print publication.
Web Search Engines and Web Resources.

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We can't claim to fully understand what science is until we know what it is not. The science/pseudoscience interface can help us understand both the strengths and the self-imposed constraints of science. Science is a self-correcting process, continually weeding out errors of thought and errors of methodology, thereby narrowing the region where truth may reside. While science claims no absolute truths, it has accumulated a larger body of reliable and testable understanding of nature than any other method of human inquiry.

The human imagination is a wonderful thing. Unfortunately, we have the ability to imagine many things that just aren't so. The universe has no obligation to behave as we'd like, or even to be understandable to our minds.


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Most recent revision, February 2022.