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By: Z

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:03:52 +0000

Cargo cult science is defined by Feynman as a situation where a group of people try to be scientists but miss the point. Like writing equations that make no checkable predictions…

Of course if the equations are impossible to solve (like due to having a landscape of 10^500 solutions that nobody can handle), it’s impressive, and some believe it. A winning theory is one that sells the most books.

When will string theorists start advertising on google ads?

By: citrine

citrine — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:01:24 +0000

When I entered “White Dwarf Stars” into the online libary catalog at my previous college some years ago, I got several listings for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

A search for Springer-Verlag brought up the site for Jerry Springer.

By: Philip Downey

Philip Downey — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:43:06 +0000

For comparison, here’s the ones attached to this week’s physics news press release. (Admittedly skewed this week, since one item was about the heart and breathing.)

crackpot: 2
relevant: 1
spammy: 2
other: 3

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By: Joseph Smidt

Joseph Smidt — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 04:51:36 +0000

Sean,
Maybe you already know this but if you use a Google homepage you can have Arxiv rss feeds coming in in their own section. Just add this to your homepage for gr-qc: http://arxiv.org/rss/gr-qc. However, maybe you already know about this but I thought I would tell you just in case you didn’t.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 04:37:09 +0000

But but but…it’s gr-qc, so google-ads is right down pat with the demography of ads.

/me runs

By: N. Peter Armitage

N. Peter Armitage — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 03:16:28 +0000

By my count that is one relevant link, 3 crackpot sites, the usual perplexing sales pitch for humidifiers, and TWO hilariously inappropriate understanding of the words “field” and “Fields”….That is unless Google knows enough to connect RG, Ricci flows and Poincare!