Mar
21
Selective use of “science” to juice up patent medicine seems to work
via smbc-comics.com
Once I was a wide-eyed innocent who became excited that science was being seen as important by a wider audience. My eventual disappointment was hard to bear upon discovering that many people were not interested in the wonderful insights of Bohr, Heisenberg or Feynman but only in appropriating the term “uncertainty” to add a patina of credibility to anecdotal theories packaged for sale to the credulous.
(As with all Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comics click through and hover over the red button for the/an extra punchline.)
