Share: Science, pseudoscience and other fun stuff

[Darlene Yasick <lib027yas@SBCGLOBAL.NET>]

The other day I happened to notice some >>> at the top of Google's page so I 
checked them out to find that these are search tools that Google is still working 
on. One of the searches gives you a hit and then three comments or reviews by 
others of the site. I was curious to see how they would handle the hoax sites that 
we use so often so I search for the MLKing site (yes the first comment tells you 
what an insidious misleading site this is) If they don't have three comments from 
outside they will post something from the author of the page. My next search was 
for the DHMO page. While  poking around in the links there I found this site which 
I thought might be of interest.



http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/home.htm This page has links to science, 
pseudoscience, education and humor about science. According to the author a Phd in 
Physics: We can't claim to fully understand what science is until we know what it 
is not. The science/pseudoscience interface can help us understand both the 
strengths and the self-imposed constraints of science. Science is a self-correcting 
processes, continually weeding out errors of thought and errors of methodology, 
thereby narrowing the region where truth may reside. While science claims no 
absolute truths, it has accumulated a larger body of reliable and testable 
understanding of nature than any other method of human inquiry. This is really an 
incredible site which has a mix of humor and information. You need to know 
something about science to understand the "museum of unworkable devices'' "myths 
and mysteries of science"



Darlene Yasick
Media Specialist
Hopkins (MI) High School
lib027yas@global.net

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