Re: The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit | Quillette

Posted by Stephen Guerin-5 on Mar 02, 2016; 5:37pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/The-Unbearable-Asymmetry-of-Bullshit-Quillette-tp7587214p7587215.html

 From the end of Owen's article:

“The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.”  -Alberto Brandolini

Bullshit Science then appears to be a spontaneous entropy-producing process from which one can construct local devices to extract work  ;-)

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

Clever! .. and my yearly read on what's wrong with science:

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http://quillette.com/2016/02/15/the-unbearable-asymmetry-of-bullshit/

​   -- Owen​

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