Re: (ReacTor) Five Works of SF Inspired by Pseudoscience

James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

Five Works of SF Inspired by Pseudoscience
 
Some good (or at least interesting) SF has been based on truly
bonkers pseudoscience.
 
https://reactormag.com/five-works-of-sf-inspired-by-pseudoscience/

Lots of great art based on bonkers systems down the millenia - as
long as they make a nice pattern.

But this is tangled up by the demarcation problem (beloved of
philosophers of science). Recall that the recent flap about
a replication problem in science started around:

Bem DJ: Feeling the future: experimental evidence for anomalous
retroactive influences on cognition and affect. J Pers Soc
Psychol. 2011;100(3):407???425.

and even

Bem D, Tressoldi P, Rabeyron T, and Duggan M.
Feeling the future: A meta-analysis of 90 experiments on the anomalous
anticipation of random future events F1000Res. 2015; 4: 1188

I don't kmow why people weren't more suspicious of a man called Bem.

Cheers, David Duffy.