Comments on: The Higgs and Wishful Thinking

By: dave martyn

dave martyn — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 06:29:08 +0000

I think he needs to run for office,

Mike Adams, he uses 20% of his brain, maybe more…

Mike Adams, he instantly grasped the “big picture” of homeopathy…

Mike Adams, he took up gymnastics at age 34!

Mike Adams, he remembers his credit card numbers!

Mike Adams is a superlearning machine.

By: jre

jre — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 17:36:09 +0000

As I never tire of pointing out when the subject of Mike Adams comes up, this is the same ninny whose all-natural lifestyle conferred upon him a suite of superpowers, including “Photo-reading books at the speed of one page per second.”
(http://www.naturalnews.com/adamshealthstats.html)
The thought of asking for a demo does not seem to have occurred to anyone.

By: Ori Vandewalle

Ori Vandewalle — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 13:17:36 +0000

Dr. Novella: My hypothesis is only unfalsifiable because you want it to be. If you wished hard enough, I’m sure you’d find a way to disprove it.

By: SteveA

SteveA — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:44:03 +0000

I heard a theory that sightings of yetis, bigfoots etc were the product of anthropologists and evolutionary scientists really, really, really wanting to find the ‘missing link’.

They wanted it and…poof. It appeared. Voila.

By: Jared Olsen

Jared Olsen — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:54:00 +0000

Bronze Dog, that’s a quote by Isaac Asimov…
I’m ashamed to belong to the country that brought the world “The Secret”

By: Guy

Guy — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 03:10:45 +0000

wow wow wow, it’s not that other scientists wanted to fail it’s just that they weren’t in tune with the force enough to bend reality to their will.

But seriously, it’s the “God of the Gaps” argument from bizarro world. We have a gap in our knowledge, we explore it and if we find something we’re God?

By: practiCal fMRI

practiCal fMRI — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 22:14:48 +0000

Fabulous! No chance this Mike Adams is some relation to a fellow by the name of Douglas, is there? If so, perhaps he’s pulling our collective legs. It would explain a lot:

“He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.”

― Life, the Universe and Everything

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”

― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

By: tmac57

tmac57 — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:44:49 +0000

Of course,if we are ‘living’ in a simulated universe,then all bets are off I suppose.

By: Factoidjunkie

Factoidjunkie — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:44:20 +0000

The automatic mind (Daniel Kahneman’s System 1 thinking system) is susceptible to a wide range of “snake oil.” Each generation has had to keep pace with modern technology and scientific discovery in order to improve their snake oil. Those who partake in this “intention science” approach are no different than those who used to peddle simplistic positive thinking and prior to that a host of remedies (some of them actually labeled snake oil) that had the appearance of science or simply borrowed scientific jargon.

I wonder if we started critical thinking skills in pre-school if we could help future generations deal more effectively with the non-useful aspects of the automatic mind.

By: SARA

SARA — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:44:02 +0000

I wonder why hundreds of obsessed alchemists were never able to make lead into gold. They definitely were committed to that intention. They believed. Still never happened.

Why didn’t Harold Camping and hundreds/thousands of other false end of world prophets. who believed sincerely, didn’t cause the end of the world.

Why don’t stalker’s victims love them?

Why isn’t there magic, like Merlin did?

Since evidence isn’t necessary to the secret’s hypothesis, so I suppose it will just take some creative thinking to come up with some form of exception to explain the lack of results from some very focused and sincere believers/wishers.