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Real Science vs. Non-science

"Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself"

- Richard Feynman, physicist

There is a lot of material (*) on the Internet that purports to be scientific but is not. The links below represent sources you should use when looking for an answer to a question, or when you have run across a site that seems to be promoting unusual science.

I built this page after writing the article: Science and Non-science on the Internet for the September 1998 issue of the LCAS NightTimes. I will update these links as I come across other resources or when new forms of pseudo-science emerge.

Topic Check out this Site
How to recognize scientific quackery http://quasar.as.utexas.edu/BillInfo/Quack.html
Intelligent Design http://www.natcenscied.org
Pseudo-science and why we should worry http://phyun5.ucr.edu/~wudka/Physics7/Notes_www/node13.html
Bad Astronomy http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/
General questions (and answers) about physics http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/faq.html
Questions and answers in space science and astronomy Ask the Space Scientist
http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry//ask/askmag.html
The evolutionary universe and Creationism http://www.psn.net/~xyz/origins.htm
The Teaching of Evolution http://www.natcenscied.org/
American Geological Institute
Position on Teaching Evolution		 http://www.agiweb.org/gapac/evolution_statement.html
A Physicist Looks at Magnetic Healing http://www.physlink.com/essay_park.cfm
Mathematicians’ Statement on the Bible Codes http://math.caltech.edu/code/petition.html
More analysis of the Bible Codes http://www.parascope.com/articles/0697/bibcode.htm
Objections to astrology by 186 leading scientists http://humanist.net/documents/astrology.html
How to fake an alien autopsy; and mistakes in the "documentary" http://www.trudang.com/autopsy.html
An Astronomer’s Personal Statement on UFOs http://www.csicop.org/si/9703/ufo.html
The "Face" on Mars http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/msss/camera/images/4_6_98_face_release/index.html
Skeptical inquiry versus the supernatural http://www.nr.infi.net/~drmatrix/skeptic.htm
Quack Watch http://http://www.quackwatch.com
Many more sources of skeptical information http://www.discord.org/skeptical/

(*) In my opinion, examples of non-science include: astrology, ufology, creationism, alien autopsies, anti-gravity, perpetual motion, numerology, "intelligent design" and so on.


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This page last updated on July 6, 2005

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