{"id":109,"date":"2004-06-08T12:07:58","date_gmt":"2004-06-08T12:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=109"},"modified":"2004-06-08T12:07:58","modified_gmt":"2004-06-08T12:07:58","slug":"signs-of-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2004\/06\/08\/signs-of-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"signs of nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the markers of pseudoscience is unrestrained endorsement. If you don&#8217;t have the resources or motivation to engage critical facilities, then you have to simply embrace everything that is suggested that doesn&#8217;t offend your broader instincts.<\/p>\n<p>Example: New-Age eclecticism. Example the second: psychobabble; as long as it has the words &#8216;neuro&#8217; (for a business audience) or &#8216;psychodynamic&#8217; (for a therapeutic audience) in it, you can probably get away with it.<\/p>\n<p>I shall add this to my heuristic-toolkit for the &#8216;how to deal with too much information&#8217; problem&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the markers of pseudoscience is unrestrained endorsement. If you don&#8217;t have the resources or motivation to engage critical facilities, then you have to simply embrace everything that is suggested that doesn&#8217;t offend your broader instincts. Example: New-Age eclecticism. Example the second: psychobabble; as long as it has the words &#8216;neuro&#8217; (for a business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}