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Category Archives: Science or pseudoscience?
The Trumpians love their children too
After expressing my worries on the development of extreme leftism and Wokeness, I thought I should also express my concerns about the aftermath of the elections. What worries me is how people responded to Trump’s loss, both in the US … Continue reading
Posted in Science or pseudoscience?
Tagged Democrats, Republicans, Russians, Sting, Trump
4 Comments
The Cult of Wokeness, followup
The previous article was just meant as a quick overview and wake-up call. But I would like to say a few more things on the subject. I have since read the book Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay. … Continue reading
Posted in Science or pseudoscience?
9 Comments
The Cult of Wokeness
As you may know, I do not normally want to engage in any kind of political talk. I’m not entirely sure if you can even call this topic ‘political’, because free speech, science, rationality and objectivity are cornerstones of the … Continue reading
Posted in Science or pseudoscience?
Tagged critical theory, cult, postmodern, racism, sexism, sjw, social justice warrior, transphobia, woke
19 Comments
The damage that AMD marketing does
Some of you may have have seen the actions of a user that goes by the name of Redneckerz on a recent blogpost of mine. That guy posts one wall of text after the next, full of anti-nVidia rhetoric, shameless … Continue reading
Posted in Hardware news, Science or pseudoscience?
Tagged AMD, performance, Polaris, Radeon, RX480, technology
25 Comments
Pseudoscience: DNA activation
The second ‘treatment’ offered on the site promoting Kangen Water is a thing called ‘DNA Activation’. Now in this case, they do not even try to keep up a scientific appearance. They just flatout reject the theories of DNA by … Continue reading
Pseudoscience: Kangen Water
I suppose that most of you, like myself, had never heard of Kangen water before. So let’s go over it in a nutshell. What is it? Kangen water is water that is filtered by a special water purification device, sold … Continue reading
Posted in Science or pseudoscience?
Tagged anti-oxidants, Bacon, fallacy, homeopathy, Kangen Water, Kuhn, logic, philosophy, philosophy of science, Popper, pseudo science, scam, science, Skepticism, water memory, Wiener Kreis
2 Comments
The philosophy of science
And now for something completely different… I have been critical of hardware and software vendors and their less ethical actions in the past. But a while ago, something happened that did not have anything to do with computer science at … Continue reading
Posted in Science or pseudoscience?
Tagged Bacon, fallacy, Kuhn, logic, philosophy, philosophy of science, Popper, pseudo science, science, Skepticism, Wiener Kreis
3 Comments