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Donald Simanek's PagesThe Museum of Unworkable Devices. Perpetual motion machinesas physics puzzles. Intelligent Design Creationism. Fraudulent Science, Bad Philosophy. Myths and Mysteries of Science. Removing the mystery. Cutting Edge Science. Profundity or parody? Illustrated Lectures on these subjects. Uncle Don's Notebook. | Bob Schadewald's Corner. Physics and Astronomy. | Physics Abused. | Physics Puzzles. History and Philosophy of Science. Skepticism, pseudoscience, urban Legends. Humor, satire, parody, mostly about science. Hoaxes. | The Ed-Biz. | Quotes. | Illusions and 3-D photography. Articles written for print publication. Web Search Engines and Web Resources. World Science will keep you informed.
We can't claim to fully understand what science is until we know what it is not. The science/pseudoscience interface can help us understand both the strengths and the self-imposed constraints of science. Science is a self-correcting process, continually weeding out errors of thought and errors of methodology, thereby narrowing the region where truth may reside. While science claims no absolute truths, it has accumulated a larger body of reliable and testable understanding of nature than any other method of human inquiry. Here's logos and links to a few of the web sites that have recognized my site as worthy for some reason or another. Since they have shown such good judgment and fine taste, you might wish to look at their sites. Unfortunately this site has outlasted some of these.
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