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.
Monday, 15 December 2014
Church of St Darwin - Witness the Miracles
Are you a credulous pseudo-scholar in search of meaning in science? Perhaps you aspire to being a Darwinist Troll? Would you like to argue from an uninformed and irrational viewpoint? Do you seek personal delusion? Then Come and worship at the Church of the Immaculate Conception of a Prior-published theory. Leave your brains at the door - unless your name is Richard Dawkins: Enter the kingdom of Darwin Here
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