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Yet these things are said to be scientific. We study them. And I think ordinary people with commonsense ideas are intimidated by this pseudoscience. A teacher who has some good idea of how to teach her children to read is forced by the school system to do it some other way — or is even fooled by the school system into thinking that her method is not necessarily a good one. Or a parent of bad boys, after disciplining them in one way or another, feels guilty for the rest of her life because she didn’t do “the right thing”, according to the experts.
So we really ought to look into theories that don’t work, and science that isn’t science.
— Old news for everyone on earth I’m sure, but I’d never read Richard Feynman’s Cargo Cult Science before and it’s well worth it
