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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: davidd02@tpg.com.au (David Duffy) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Works of SF Inspired by Pseudoscience Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 00:18:41 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 02:18:41 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="244c664c87197df2d2f1ee5246e62fb2"; logging-data="2015657"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+c6O8+rxwGmr3aTZqRYdKnk9GUucARErQ=" User-Agent: tin/2.6.2-20220130 ("Convalmore") (Linux/5.15.0-107-generic (x86_64)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:q6sv0H9Ekcguru3Gb2CUii+/yKw= Bytes: 1884 James Nicoll wrote: > Five Works of SF Inspired by Pseudoscience > > Some good (or at least interesting) SF has been based on truly > bonkers pseudoscience. > > https://reactormag.com/five-works-of-sf-inspired-by-pseudoscience/ Lots of great art based on bonkers systems down the millenia - as long as they make a nice pattern. But this is tangled up by the demarcation problem (beloved of philosophers of science). Recall that the recent flap about a replication problem in science started around: Bem DJ: Feeling the future: experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2011;100(3):407???425. and even Bem D, Tressoldi P, Rabeyron T, and Duggan M. Feeling the future: A meta-analysis of 90 experiments on the anomalous anticipation of random future events F1000Res. 2015; 4: 1188 I don't kmow why people weren't more suspicious of a man called Bem. Cheers, David Duffy.