A page dedicated to the ample evidence that we need better science education. Not everything here rises to Pauli's immortal description, but some of it does. Things like this are way too easy to find.

Junk science: more research is needed

Science by publicity. There ought to be a Nobel Prize out there for the first researcher to discover that failing to find an effect is the best reason to do further research.

Electromagnetic fields (EMF)

Do low-frequency electromagnetic fields cause cancer? One in twenty studies says yes to 95% certainty.


• Flash! Federal probe determines that Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories EMF researcher Robert Liburdy fabricated data.
• A National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences web site on EMF research, including a 1999 Report concluding that evidence for an EMF/cancer link is "weak".
• Microwave News. A large EMF advocacy site. Has an extensive collection of links.
• Blow driers cause leukemia. Check out their poster boys!
• EMF shielding devices. Sure beats tinfoil in your hat.

Cold Fusion

Venerable junk science, and still going strong.

• A Cold Fusion FAQ from Infinite Energy Magazine.

Silicone Breast Implants

Guess what? They're perfectly safe.

• The new Institute of Medicine Report concluding that silicone breast implants don't cause systemic illness.
• Dow Corning Chapter 11 Information
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Plastic Softeners (Phthalates)

Classic scare tactics from Greenpeace. This one hasn't been decisively proven to be bunk. Yet.

• Greenpeace web page on vinyl toys.
• Industry web site on phthalates, including a response to the Greenpeace allegations.
• Consumer Product Safety Commission web page on phthalates in toys. Conclusion: "few, if any children are at risk from liver or other organ toxicity." The CPSC recommends, as usual, "more research" into possible cancer risk.
• Article on phthalates from drkoop.com. Summarizes a recent American Council on Science and Health report.

TEOTWAWKI

Y2K fearmongering deleted due to lack of apocalypse. Told you so.

Well, on second thought, I'll leave up the Barbie site.

Fundamental(ist) Research

Religiously motivated science: God is my referee.

• Kansas State Board of Education. What happens when you don't bother to vote.
• The Creation Science homepage. Cosmologists might be especially interested in Evidences of a Young Universe.
• The Handy Dandy Evolution Refuter from The Creation Science Research Center.
• The Evolution of Truth. A creationist discovers the Golden Mean. I can't wait 'til he hears about Napier's constant!
• Quantum Mechanics, a Modern Goliath, by Hugh Ross, Ph.D (with links to other gems.)
• Copernicus was wrong: The Association for Biblical Astronomy.

New-Age Ninnies

Excuse me, but your karma ran over my dogma.

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Homeopathy

Would a placebo by any other name smell as sweet?

• Homeopathy Home Lots of links.
• New England Journal of Homeopathy. Not to be confused with that other journal.
• Homeopathy article from quackwatch.com.
• Article from The Skeptic's Dictionary.
• Veterinary homeopathy. For the new-age dog.

Magnetic Therapy

But I thought EMF's were bad!

• Article on magnetic therapy from Healthcare Reality Check.
• Buy-a-Mag Company. I especially like the magnetic water cups.
• The Pearl Synchronicity Generator (formerly the Pearl Biomagnet). "The colors red, yellow, blue, white and black work the best."

Pleiadian Cosmology

Are these the same extra dimensions as in string theory?

• Excerpts from The Pleiadian Agenda, by Barbara Hand Clow.
• The writings of Aluna Joy.

The Far Fringe

Really unique ideas.

• Archimedes Plutonium. The one. The only.
• Robert E. McElwaine. Hollow earth, Larsonian relativity, and renegade space cannibals. This page has it all.
• Alan Jackson's home page. I met Alan in the backcountry canyons of Utah in 1996. He showed me Anasazi ruins and we debated science and smoked his hand-rolled cigarettes. I didn't get through to him and he didn't get through to me, but it was really cool. Hi Alan!
• The Maharishi Effect Get flying, people!

Jokers

These people aren't serious. At least I hope not.

• Journal of Irreproducible Results. Home of the Ig Nobel Prize.
• Alan Sokal's infamous article, Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity, published in Social Text Spring/Summer 1996. A classic.