{"id":8240,"date":"2012-08-07T08:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betaknowledge.tumblr.com\/post\/28912508974"},"modified":"2017-08-18T17:57:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T17:57:55","slug":"seven-warning-signs-of-bogus-sciencethose-seven-warning-signs-arediscoverers-make-their-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2012\/08\/07\/seven-warning-signs-of-bogus-sciencethose-seven-warning-signs-arediscoverers-make-their-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science:Those seven warning signs are:Discoverers make their claims\u2026&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"\u201cSeven Warning Signs of Bogus Science:<br\/>\nThose seven warning signs are:<br\/>\nDiscoverers make their claims directly to the popular media, rather than to fellow scientists.<br\/>\nDiscoverers claim that a conspiracy has tried to suppress the discovery.<br\/>\nThe claimed effect appears so weak that observers can hardly distinguish it from noise. No amount of further work increases the signal.<br\/>\nAnecdotal evidence is used to back up the claim.<br\/>\nTrue believers cite ancient traditions in support of the new claim.<br\/>\nThe discoverer or discoverers work in isolation from the mainstream scientific community.<br\/>\nThe discovery, if true, would require a change in the understanding of the fundamental laws of nature.\u201d<br\/><br\/> - <em><strong>Why do I blog this?<\/strong> Always interesting to keep these warning signs (described by Robert L. Park) in mind when reading about research results and processes.<\/em><div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?a=jh0z4V_rork:l8_aO8r9qwg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?a=jh0z4V_rork:l8_aO8r9qwg:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?a=jh0z4V_rork:l8_aO8r9qwg:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/NicolasNova?i=jh0z4V_rork:l8_aO8r9qwg:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/NicolasNova\/~4\/jh0z4V_rork\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSeven Warning Signs of Bogus Science:<br \/>\nThose seven warning signs are:<br \/>\nDiscoverers make their claims directly to the popular media, rather than to fellow scientists.<br \/>\nDiscoverers claim that a conspiracy has tried to suppress the discovery.<br \/>\nThe claimed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,169],"tags":[938],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science:Those seven warning signs are:Discoverers make their claims\u2026&quot; - Near Future Laboratory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2012\/08\/07\/seven-warning-signs-of-bogus-sciencethose-seven-warning-signs-arediscoverers-make-their-claims\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science:Those seven warning signs are:Discoverers make their claims\u2026&quot; - Near Future Laboratory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cSeven Warning Signs of Bogus Science: Those seven warning signs are: Discoverers make their claims directly to the popular media, rather than to fellow scientists. 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