Matt Ridley
Science, humanity’s
greatest intellectual achievement, has always been vulnerable to
infection by pseudoscience, which pretends to use the methods of
science, but actually subverts them in pursuit of an obsession. Instead
of evidence-based policymaking, pseudoscience specialises in
policy-based evidence making. Today, this infection is spreading. ......
Pseudoscience is bad
enough when it infects astrologers, 9/11 truthers and crop-circle
makers. But when its symptoms show up in mainstream bodies, such as the
World Health Organisation, it’s time to be worried."
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