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From: davidd02@tpg.com.au (David Duffy)
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Works of SF Inspired by Pseudoscience
Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 00:18:41 -0000 (UTC)
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James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> 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.