"Pseudoscience in Naziland" indeed....what was JD Vance saying about Aliens again?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vril

#Pseudoscience #JDVance #Couchfucker #Fascists #MAGA

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Willy Ley [edit] Willy Ley was a German rocket engineer who had emigrated to the United States in 1937. In 1947 he published an article titled "Pseudoscience in Naziland" in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction.[23124] He wrote that the high popularity of irrational convictions in Germany at that time explained how Nazism could have fallen on such fertile ground. Among various pseudoscientific groups he mentions one that looked for the Vril: "The next group was literally founded upon a novel. That group which | think called itself 'Wahrheitsgesellschaft' — Society for Truth — and which was more or less localised in Berlin, devoted its spare time looking for Vril."

A practical guide to decoding health-care titles, spotting red flags, and understanding who’s actually trained to give medical advice.

So important.
#Medicine #SocialMedia #Pseudoscience #FactsMatter

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-student-contributors-pseudoscience-did-you-know/degree-abcs

The present perspective outlines how epistemically baseless and ethically pernicious paradigms are recycled back into the scientific literature via machine learning (ML) and explores connections between these two dimensions of failure. We hold up the renewed emergence of physiognomic methods, facilitated by ML, as a case study in the harmful repercussions of ML-laundered junk science. A summary and analysis of several such studies is delivered, with attention to the means by which unsound research lends itself to social harms. We explore some of the many factors contributing to poor practice in applied ML. In conclusion, we offer resources for research best practices to developers and practitioners.

In other words ML--which includes generative AI--is smuggling long-disgraced pseudoscientific ideas back into "respectable" science, and rejuvenating the harms such ideas cause.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #MachineLearning #ML #AIEthics #science #pseudoscience #JunkScience #eugenics #physiognomy