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Magic and Langmuir's "Pathological Science"

I think it was Arthur C Clarke who said "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". This obviously applies to the GSIC - it defies human science so if you believe it works you must accept that it is magic.

I found it interesting that one of the proponents found the effect more obvious whn he wan't listening critically. This reminds me strongly of one of the incidents reported in Langmuir's famous talk on "Pathological Science" where the scintillations could only be seen if you weren't looking directly at them (about half way down the part on Davis / Barnes).

To every human problem there is a solution which is simple, neat and wrong - H.L Mencken

Mark Kelly


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