Tag: Pseudoscience
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There Is No Such Thing as a “Supermoon”
Pseudoscience is often amusing, sometimes irritating, and occasionally angering. Today’s example from the Daily Mail in the UK is in the latter category: Is the Japanese earthquake the latest natural disaster to have been caused by a ‘supermoon’? (Hat tip to Ben Goldacre.) To summarize, astrologers (yes, they’re citing astrologers) have predicted the Moon’s closest…
Galileo's Pendulum 