The Devil’s work

Discover how to distinguish pseudoscience from real science with popular topics from the Digg community.

Written byPhil Plait
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I was surfing around Digg.com the other day, looking at what the community there had been linking to as far as science articles go. Somebody had linked to a great article on Quackwatch about how to distinguish pseudoscience from real science. The article has been around a while, but clearly it was popular at Digg; getting more then a few dozen Diggs (votes for popularity) is tough -- I've had only a handful of blog entries that have hit it reasonably big at Digg. Yet this article was doing really well. Check out the apropriate number of hits it had when I looked:

Man that guy gets around. First a license plate in New Mexico, and now Digg!

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