How they fool you with science, Part 2

| August 4, 2010

Review of Ubiquity: The Science of History, Mark Buchanan, Crown Publishers, New York, 2000. If you were excited by our summary of critical state theory in Part 1, today’s post should sober you up. Everything in critical state theory is a load of bullshit.

How they fool you with science, Part 1

| August 2, 2010

Review of Ubiquity: The Science of History, Mark Buchanan, Crown Publishers, New York, 2000. During the past twenty years scientists have been working to develop a new theory, called critical state theory, from nonequilibrium studies of physics. Critical state theory, which is part of chaos theory, hypothesizes that disasters, upheavals, and other large-scale phenomena arise […]