Logodaedalies

On this site and elsewhere:
A: A-Deism . Age of Endarkenment . aptonym, aptronym .
B: Besottism .
C: cdesign proponentsists . commentariat .
D: Denialism . Dog's Ass Plots .
E: Endarkenment (Age) .
F: Fistian (fundamentalist Christian aka evangelical Christian) .
G: groupuscules, groupustules .
H: Homo religioso .
I : IDiocy, IDiots . Infectious Repetitis .
J: jumbo-mumbo .
L: LAME thinking . leap blogging . lie-orama . Little Johnnyism and Little Kirkism . Luce-ifer's Apprentices .
M: magisterium . Misinformation Explosion Age . Misleading Pseudoscience for Dummies . Mysteria, mysterical .
N: Nac you seyee . New Atheism . New Credulity . NOMA .
P: pwn .
S: Sock Puppet .
W: Woo .

Bloopers .
Quotes .

LAME thinking

"In this Misinformation Explosion Age, people are increasingly unaware that lay opinion, particularly biased opinion, carries no real authority about the natural world whenever lay opinion runs counter to established scientific knowledge. Let's designate such people, Laypersons of the Misinformation Explosion, or LAMEs.

Not only do LAMEs form illogical opinions on the basis of too little information, they form mistaken opinions on the basis of deliberate or ignorant misinformation pasted across the Internet. LAMEs are particularly credulous in the face of emotionally appealing rhetoric, and this is particularly apparent in relation to the ridiculous creation vs evolution debate, which really ought not to be a debate at all since only the scientific explanation is empirically supported."

This concept, of course, is connected to Denialism.


St. Elsewhere: The Problem with Polemics .

Misleading Pseudoscience for Dummies

Pseudoscience masquerades as science, usually to promote some commercial scam or to promote religious beliefs for which there is not, nor ever will be, supportive evidence.

The subject matter of pseudoscientific claims ranges from astrology and the occult to anti-science, religiously motivated falsehoods.

Talking or writing about science is not science. Criticizing or critiquing science is not science. Elaborating mumbo-jumbo about supposed medical treatments without clinical testing is not science. Concocting falsehoods designed to protect unjustified belief in disproved Special Creation is definitely not science.

In order to ignorantly support illogical, indoctrinated religious mythology, creationists deny scientific knowledge, attack a straw man version of science, and falsify science as lie-oramas in the Fiction Lie-See-Um, or spout Misleading Pseudoscience for Dummies on junk tanks. " Creationism has been discredited, however, by indisputable physical evidence – carbon dating, for example."[SW]

External : Science Week editorials : Creationism vs. Sanity : SCIENCE POLICY: ON THE TEACHING OF PSEUDOSCIENCE :