The Mayan Calendar, Fractal Time, Earth Harmonics and 2012. Fantasy masquerading as science.
"Dressing up a belief system in the trappings of science by using scientific language and jargon, as in 'creation-science,' means nothing without evidence, experimental testing, and corroboration. Because science has such a powerful mystique in our society, those who wish to gain respectability but do not have evidence try to do an end run around the missing evidence by looking and sounding 'scientific.'"
Michael Shermer, the publisher of Skeptic magazine.
“Why People Believe Weird Things”, W. H. Freeman and Company, 1997, page 49.
Martin Gardner, perhaps The premier debunker of pseudo-science in a long career of writing, admitted in an interview that a lot of what he had written about bad science had been a waste of time. Martin Gardner was concerned that the public wants to believe in all kinds of absurd things regardless of what scientists say and write, but he is glad that some scientists do speak up about such current pseudo-scientific ideas.
Martin Gardner Interview, “A Mind at Play: An Interview with Martin Gardner” by Kendrick Frazier, Skeptical Inquirer, March 1998.
If you can make the reader believe anything no matter how absurd it is, he will prove it to be true by his experiments. This proves that our beliefs make us act and our acts are directed by our belief, for the wisdom or knowledge is in the belief. People are not aware of this. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby
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