Savory falsely implies that true breakthroughs in a scientific field can only come from people from outside that field.
Category: Pseudo Science
Stanley Meyer, the inventor of the water-powered car, was not killed by Belgian investors
Soon after Meyer’s sudden death in 1998, rumours started. Were the Belgian investors he was dining with on that fatal evening actually killers send to poison him to make sure that his invention could not longer threaten the interests of the fossil fuels industry? Now more than twenty years later, one of these investors, Philippe Vandemoortele, tells what actually happened.
FLOGEN SIPS conferences, where Nobelists meet fringe scientists and frauds
The FLOGEN SIPS conferences use a interesting business model. Nobelist keynote speakers are given a nice holiday, and with their status other participants are lured in. And there are plenty of awards to caress everyone’s ego.
Debunking Janet Ossebaard’s COVID-19 video series
Dutch cropcircle enthousiast and ufo believer Janet Ossebaard made a video series on the crisis cause nu the outbreak of coronavirus. It is full of lies and conspiracy theories that are easily debunked.
Klaas van Egmond identifies Shakespeare as the number pi
Professor Klaas van Egmond thinks he has found conclusive evidence that the poem and engraving on the front pages of the Shakespeare First Folio tell us that Shakespeare should be identified as the number π.
Poll shows 0.9 per cent of Dutch people believe the Earth is flat
Dutch newspaper Trouw set out a poll, in collaboration with Kieskompas, to investigate the belief in several conspiracy theories. One of the results they reported is that ‘almost one per cent of the Dutch, 0.9 per cent to be exact, think that the Earth is not round, but flat.’ This would amount to about 150.000 […]
Rhus tox: poison ivy or Atlantic poison oak?
A controversial study with the homeopathic remedy Rhus tox got retracted. But what is the remedy actually made from according to the authors?
Pilot study on new malaria drug ATC Malachlorite in Cameroon raises lots of questions
My attention was drawn to a study via Twitter by a guy named Sam Little who is involved in some dubious test with the well known and dangerous quack product MMS [23/5/2019 see update below]. He recently performed a test in Uganda which is very similar to the test that was performed in Uganda several […]
Fooling Tourists with the Coriolis Effect at Uganda Equator
On places where you can cross the equator, you can find people demonstrating the Coriolis effect for tourists. These performances are actually tricked as the effect is too small to be observed in this way. One guy in Uganda tricks the tourists in another way, but it is unclear whether he realises this himself.
Eltjo Haselhoff’s nonsensical BOL model for alleged node lengthening anomalies in crop circles
Eltjo Haselhoff proposed a physical hypothesis for the apparent anomalies in the flattened crops in crop circles. His theory was contested by Italian skeptics. Both the Italians and Haselhoff missed a pretty obvious reason to dismiss the BOL theory straight away.