Jean Michel Abrassart est diplômé en psychologie (spécialisé en psychologie de la religion) et agrégé de philosophie. Il est l'auteur de "La Croyance Au Paranormal: Facteurs prédispositionnels et situationnels" aux éditions universitaires européennes.
A common complaint among cryptozoologists – those who pursue unknown or folkloric monsters – is that mainstream science does not take their work seriously and inappropriately labels it as pseudoscience. The shenanigans currently going on in Russia are a good example of why that happens.
Scientists are furious that a booklet, published as part of the stamps' presentation package, contains claims that modern physics will one day lead to an understanding of telepathy and the paranormal.
« Lors d'une expédition dans la grotte Azasskaïa (en Russie), les participants ont collecté des preuves irréfutables démontrant que "l'homme des neiges" vit dans la (contrée de la) Choria montagneuse »
On croyait Bruno Bettelheim définitivement rangé sur l'étagère des truqueurs malfaisants. Que nenni ! La documentariste Sophie Robert vient de réaliser un film intitulé « le mur » dont le sous-titre est : « la psychanalyse à l'épreuve de l'autisme. »
I prefer to wait for sufficient details to become publicly established, that way if there is a cautionary tale to be learned, it will not be blunted by factual uncertainty.
I’m sad that today I’m adding a slide to one of my live presentations, adding Steve Jobs to the list of famous people who died treating terminal diseases with woo rather than with medicine.
What do you do as a scientist when you know a research result that is almost certainly wrong is about to become a media sensation? That is the quandary I found myself in last month as I awaited the announcement from CERN.
Jobs likes to make his own rules, whether the topic is computers, stock options, or even pancreatic cancer. The same traits that make him a great CEO drive him to put his company, and his investors, at risk.