Supermyths are myths about myths that are created and compounded by experts, spread by pseudo-skeptics and destroyed by evidence. Braced myths are a sub-type of supermyth, created by orthodox expert authorities that are so powerful they are believed to be true by respected scholars who unwittingly promote them as examples of the need to be healthily sceptical of counterknowledge and then, with unintended irony, use them as argument winners to refute other fallacious knowledge.
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.
Wednesday, 3 September 2014
Science Fraud: What now after the big data bombshell fell on the history of the discovery of natural selection?
Arguably, all that remains to defend Darwin's and Wallace's claims to have independently discovered the theory of natural selection and to deny they committed science fraud is an irrational trinity of faith. Click here to read my open access article that informs natural scientists of the newly discovered data and it implications.
Mike Sutton
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