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In reply to the discussion: Woo shaming [View all]Igel
(35,191 posts)49. Perhaps that it's a decent model.
That makes accurate predictions and allows us to explain and extend phenomena that otherwise doesn't seem to have a good explanation.
Or perhaps that we don't fully understand it, in that just being able to describe and predict doesn't constitute "understanding."
I go one step further than most. We shame creationists and anti-evolutionists. I consider that to be a variety of "woo."
Some want to hold other forms of "woo" in high honor. This I find difficult to understand.
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Wow. So quick to reply to all my posts until this one. How very courteous of you.
Phlem
Jan 2014
#24
ideas considered irrational or based on extremely flimsy evidence or that appeal to mysterious...
PeaceNikki
Jan 2014
#23
Look, don't pull me into this flame fest. I have no dog in this fight. I was just answering the ?
PeaceNikki
Jan 2014
#37
Except that quantum physics actually makes testable predictions that are verified by experiment.
Salviati
Jan 2014
#54
Alchemy used to be "woo" to most people, but now it's part of what we call chemistry.
Electric Monk
Jan 2014
#43
OK, I'm a fan of some things that are scientifically proven but are being called
Squinch
Jan 2014
#27
"Woo Shaming" is so excellent, that I just submitted it to Urban Dictionary. Thanks!
Ian David
Jan 2014
#31
The first instance I could find of the phrase was a Facebook posting from 2012.
Ian David
Jan 2014
#35
Shame on failed scientific experiments that created generations of heartbreak.
sabrina 1
Jan 2014
#47