http://paranthropus.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] paranthropus.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] nemorathwald 2005-07-06 05:28 pm (UTC)

People aren't going to buy it. Pseudoscience has become much more sophisticated these days. In other words, you need to throw in a dose of jargon to make people think that you are talking over their heads.

We've all heard of "string theory", right? What non-physicist can explain string theory? Very few, I'd imagine. Well, what the physicists aren't telling people is that these "strings" are, in fact, the faerie chains of which you speak. "Can you disprove it?", I proclaim to the unwashed masses, "Do you have an advanced degree in (insert impressive sounding yet unrelated field here)? No? Well, then, at the very least it deserves equal space in our children's textbooks, right?"

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