Hacker News with Generative AI: Pseudoscience

Fantastically Wrong: The Legendary Scientist Who Swore Our Planet Is Hollow (wired.com)
In 1869 an American physician named Cyrus Reed Teed, whose very own brand of medicine combined alchemy with zaps of electricity and doses of magnetism, electrocuted himself so badly that he passed out. Which is just as well, for when he came to, he realized he was the living incarnation of Jesus Christ.
IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (2019) (medium.com)
“IQ” is a stale test meant to measure mental capacity but in fact mostly measures extreme unintelligence (learning difficulties), as well as, to a lesser extent (with a lot of noise), a form of intelligence, stripped of 2nd order effects — how good someone is at taking some type of exams designed by unsophisticated nerds.
Elon Musk given Rusty Razor pseudoscience award (skeptic.org.uk)
Twitter owner Elon Musk has today been named the 2024 recipient of the “Rusty Razor” award, the prize given by The Skeptic to the year’s worst promoters of pseudoscience
The reanimation of pseudoscience in machine learning (cell.com)
Forensic Pseudoscience – The Unheralded Crisis of Criminal Justice (2015) (bostonreview.net)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (medium.com)