This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has three segments. Here are bits of each of them: The Kármán sutra — … The paper is almost Victorian in its voluminous discussion of possible regulatory mechanisms, but nearly complete avoidance of mentioning fornication. The highest moment of titillation comes in the following passage: “The […]
At last, someone figured out how to make money from the physics crank letters she receives! That someone is Sabine Hossenfelder. She tells about how she does it, in an article in Aeon called “What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists“. BONUS (possibly related): “A Fundamentally Eccentric Premise“, by L.X. Finegold. BONUS […]
Investigator Lee Graham writes: Do you ever have the suspicion that there is one person — let’s call him Voldemutt — who spends all day, every day, cranking out those crank/crooky web sites? Here is one of the many fine works of Voldemutt: Quantum Age Drinking Water Wand New clinical trial shows an average increase […]