Poe’s law revisited…
“Poe’s law”, according to Rationalwiki, “relates to fundamentalism, and the difficulty of identifying actual parodies of it. It suggests that, in general, it is hard to tell fake fundamentalism from the real thing, since they both sound equally ridiculous. The law also works in reverse: real fundamentalism can also be indistinguishable from parody fundamentalism”
I had that Poe’s law feeling just now, when I stumbled across “Scienceguardian.com” (incorporating ”New AIDS Review“, “Global Health Review“, and the Judo-tastically-named ”Paradigm Overthrow.”).
Science Guardian, we are told, is dedicated to “defending the values of science and good scientists who dissent in the paradigm wars of HIV/AIDS, cancer, evolution, global warming, nutrition, religious belief and other disputes over new and different ideas.”
The website aims to “expose truths buried in the literature and commonly overlooked by the media, and review novel claims without the group prejudice against modern Galileos, whistleblowers, distinguished mavericks, past or future Nobelists, or any other original and independent good minds (such as the noted scientists Peter Duesberg and Kary Mullis) who may question scripture.”
Fake or folly? Click here to decide…
