A wonderful piece in today’s Guardian, reprinted here, by the estimable Ben Goldacre, on quack science and the moral bankruptcy of professional defenders of homeopathy. Read it.
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Also there is a good, famous essay by Feynmann about what he calls “Cargo Cult science”.
Link to one version below, or Google it.
http://wwwcdf.pd.infn.it/~loreti/science.html