The Dysology Hypothesis

Letting scholars get away with publishing fallacies and myths signals to others the existence of topics where guardians of good scholarship might be less capable than elsewhere. Such dysology then serves as an allurement to poor scholars to disseminate existing myths and fallacies and to create and publish their own in these topic areas, which leads to a downward spiral of diminishing veracity on particular topics.

Friday 28 December 2012

On Supermyths and the braced myth subtype

Supermyths, of which braced myths are a sub-type - are ironic unintended, or else a deliberate and disingenuous, consequences of fallacy dissemination. Supermyths have very specific components:

1. The creation of a fallacy, myth or error by an orthodox expert.
2. Being used by another expert who in turn promotes it as being ‘true, and whilst still thinking that it is true either promotes it as a good example of the need to be healthily skeptical of bad scholarship, or else: 
3. compounds the myth by using it as a premise upon which to build one or more supporting myths.


Braced myths are supermyths that have been pointedly deployed by orthodox scholars in order to bust another specific myth or fallacy. The braced myth hypothesis is that using one myth as a specific mythbusting device in this way braces the supermyth to make it further entrenched and therefore more difficult to prevent it being credulously disseminated as veracious knowledge.


A pre-supermyth - bracedmyth in the making: The 164ft Zombie Rat Myth
Latest supermyth: The Semmelweis Myth 

Saturday 22 December 2012

Latest Supermyth News.


Is this how they are created? British civil servant creates another arithmetical zombie fallacy  This time we have zombie rats as necessary nonsense to make the bad science calculation work.read all about it Here . Is this a pre-supermyth?