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February 22, 2013

The Worst Kind of Science Hype

Ethan Siegel, ScienceBlogs


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Did you hear the news? A game-changing story about the Universe has just come out! Something is vastly, spectacularly different from the way we thought, and it will revolutionize the way we think about the most basic, fundamental properties of our very existence.

Blah, blah, blah. Or, you know, not.

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TAGGED: scientific theories, scientific method, dark matter, Hype Alert!

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