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The dangers of psuedoscience
Topic Started: Oct 22 2015, 10:41 AM (19 Views)
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This is a really long article, but its also pretty interesting. This is what happens when people can't distinguish science from psuedoscience, and they start believing in bullshit.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/magazine/the-strange-case-of-anna-stubblefield.html?_r=0

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I had tried reading that article earlier this week, I couldn't do it. It was just so screwed up :(
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I think its really worth reading all the way through. I hadn't even heard of facilitated communication, but after reading that article and doing further background research is seems to be more dangerous pseudoscience. I believe the woman in this case was not malicious, but was just delusional and really believed facilitated communication worked. We really need to teach people to distinguish pseudoscience from real science.

Also of note, the article actually tries to be balanced and has some quotes from proponents of facilitated communication defending it, and it just makes them sound worse. They have lame excuses for why FC doesn't stand up in controlled experiments, which could easily have come from someone arguing the merits of faith healing. We also have someone explaining the importance of rebranding FC so they can sneakily get it accepted as science, which is reminiscent of creationism being rebranded intelligent design. This story is just one case, but the larger movement to push FC as legitimate science is the cause, and its still a problem even if this woman goes to jail.
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