And most people don’t know or can’t accept that there’s a very big difference between a scientific theory and an hypothesis.

I think the consensus is that dark matter is a separate “thing” but that consensus is not absolute. As a semi-literate layman, it feels like a premature optimization - the field largely settled into the “unknown particle” framework too early. It could be better to talk about “anomalous gravity” of which “unknown…

One of my favorite essays by Isaac Asimov is the Relativity of Wrong, which goes into how our knowledge evolves and how models can both be “right” in one sense and “wrong” in another.

Better said.

And two of the most important facts of our universe—gravity and dark matter

So at what point do we finally start producing some superheroes, people?!?!  I’m sick of all these irradiated spider corpses and cancerous turtles taking up all the space without a single hero produced!  I DEMAND RESULTS!

Enjoy this moment of rationality and intellectual honesty before the flat earthers and creationists storm in to declare that this news completely undermines physics and the entire scientific method.

It’s a good job they don’t have to erect a gravestone for each of the hundreds of dolphins they slaughter every year

Yup. It’s looking more and more likely that the veiled Borg Queen from the first episode will turn out to be Agnes of Borg.

Oh that's what made me think of it. I've loved watching them talk about it.

And not Picard’s mom?

That would be cool if that’s where they’re going (and it looks so far like it is). The Queen would be basically trying to seduce Agnes since I suspect that unlike becoming an assimilated drone, becoming Queen may require consent at some level.

I was thinking about that too. Why hide the face if it was the same Borg Queen we see later?

I think it depends on the definition. Homeopathy does claim its super-diluted nonsense is more potent, i.e., stronger because of the “dynamization” of the substance via dilution.

There are explanations, but you’ll find them either unsatisfying or hilarious, depending on your mood at the time. You’re not just supposed to dilute the tincture. You’re supposed to “succuss” it as well. That’s a homeopathic technical term that means to strike the container firmly. There are factions within…

Worse — since there’s so little regulation of homeopathic remedies, serious harm sometimes occurs. There’s Zicam, of course, but also not too long ago there were some infants who had to go to the hospital because they had been given homeopathic teething droplets that weren’t diluted to homeopathic concentrations —…

Are homeopaths—or perhaps dyed-in-the-wool frauds—jumping on the naturopath bandwagon because it implies legitimacy when they put out a shingle? Do naturopaths have some august body that makes a fake shingle illegal? I plead ignorance and have never made a distinction.

Actually, you’ve got the core principles of homeopathy a little off. That’s not unusual; most people don’t understand them. It’s not that diluting a substance makes it stronger. The actual claim of homeopathy is much much stupider than that. It’s that diluting it makes it do the *opposite*. So a homeopathic shot of…

You can add chiropractors into this grouping of pseudoscience as well. Bunch of snake oil quacks as well. They’ve really come to prominence among the white suburban mom anti-vaxxer crowd as well. They take their children sick with whooping couch and such there for treatment. What nonsense.

For ANY homeopathic remedy, if you took a dose that was the size of a globe of water with a diameter of the distance of the earth to the sun, it probably doesn’t have one molecule other than water - so it’s water. Read Bad Science by Ben Goldacre for the best book on quackery.