Joe Mercola: Celebrating 23 years of promoting quackery and antivaccine misinformation
https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/08/...formation/
INTRO: “Dr.” Joe Mercola just celebrated 23 years of his website. It’s actually been 23 years of promoting quackery and antivaccine misinformation, culminating in a lot of COVID-19 disinformation...
WTF, when will scientists learn to use fewer acronyms?
https://www.newswise.com/articles/wtf-wh...r-acronyms
EXCERPT: Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Professor Adrian Barnett and Dr Zoe Doubleday from the University of South Australia (UniSA) have analysed 24 million scientific article titles and 18 million abstracts between 1950 and 2019, looking for trends in acronym use. Despite repeated calls for scientists to reduce their use of acronyms and jargon in journal papers, the advice has been largely ignored, their findings show in a paper published in eLife. Many of the 1.1 million unique acronyms identified in the past 70 years are causing confusion, ambiguity and misunderstanding, making science less accessible, the researchers say... (MORE - details)
Everything Wrong With Modern Theoretical Physics In One Paper's Practical Summary
https://www.science20.com/content/everyt...al_summary
EXCERPTS: There was once a time when theoretical physicists were prized because they were basically smarter than most people - about one or two things. [...] Today, far too many theoretical physicists write papers claiming time travel is possible mathematically or other Stargate fan fiction - of little use to anyone - so when they insist actual physics experiments shouldn't get funding, it comes across as a little strange. Who will validate the fever dreams of "String" theorists if no experiments occur? Everything that can be ridiculous about modern theoretical physics recently showed up in one paper, which I will sum up for you: You might be able to detect black holes falling into wormholes using gravitational waves if wormholes ever exist and a black hole ever falls into one... (MORE - details)
RELATED (Universe Today): Black Hole Popping Out of a Traversable Wormhole Should Give Off a Very Specific Signal in Gravitational Waves
The Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09135
https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/08/...formation/
INTRO: “Dr.” Joe Mercola just celebrated 23 years of his website. It’s actually been 23 years of promoting quackery and antivaccine misinformation, culminating in a lot of COVID-19 disinformation...
WTF, when will scientists learn to use fewer acronyms?
https://www.newswise.com/articles/wtf-wh...r-acronyms
EXCERPT: Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Professor Adrian Barnett and Dr Zoe Doubleday from the University of South Australia (UniSA) have analysed 24 million scientific article titles and 18 million abstracts between 1950 and 2019, looking for trends in acronym use. Despite repeated calls for scientists to reduce their use of acronyms and jargon in journal papers, the advice has been largely ignored, their findings show in a paper published in eLife. Many of the 1.1 million unique acronyms identified in the past 70 years are causing confusion, ambiguity and misunderstanding, making science less accessible, the researchers say... (MORE - details)
Everything Wrong With Modern Theoretical Physics In One Paper's Practical Summary
https://www.science20.com/content/everyt...al_summary
EXCERPTS: There was once a time when theoretical physicists were prized because they were basically smarter than most people - about one or two things. [...] Today, far too many theoretical physicists write papers claiming time travel is possible mathematically or other Stargate fan fiction - of little use to anyone - so when they insist actual physics experiments shouldn't get funding, it comes across as a little strange. Who will validate the fever dreams of "String" theorists if no experiments occur? Everything that can be ridiculous about modern theoretical physics recently showed up in one paper, which I will sum up for you: You might be able to detect black holes falling into wormholes using gravitational waves if wormholes ever exist and a black hole ever falls into one... (MORE - details)
RELATED (Universe Today): Black Hole Popping Out of a Traversable Wormhole Should Give Off a Very Specific Signal in Gravitational Waves
The Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09135