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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

Binkie The Clown

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5. One of the worst peieces of fake science I ever read was in "Skeptical Inquirer"

Reply to Dr. Strange (Original post)

Sat Jul 22, 2017, 03:10 PM

Jul 2017

It was an article "disproving" ESP. Granted, ESP is probably nonsense, but the experiment they described in the paper was even worse nonsense. So I guess even skeptics can be taken in by garbage.

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One of the worst peieces of fake science I ever read was in "Skeptical Inquirer" Binkie The Clown Jul 2017 #5