Metabunk is apparently a forums site devoted to debunking #pseudoscience? This one about the Great Pyramid of Giza and its amusingly-lightspeed-like latitude. #epistemology #humor
on 02026-08-19The location of the Great Pyramid of Giza encodes the speed of light, in meters per second, to seven decimal places: 29.9792458° N. “The lesson of the Pyramid-lightspeed link is that sometimes it isn’t. It just looks like some sudden and shocking coincidence. The other lesson of the Pyramid is that I cannot consistently figure this kind of thing out. I threw everything I had against the correlation, and I still ended up with p = 0.003. I don’t think this is because the Pyramid really was designed by aliens with a suspicious link to 1600s France. I think it’s because I’m not creative enough to fully dissect coincidences even when I’m looking for them.” #pseudoscience #humor #epistemology
on 02026-08-19Willy Ley on the #history of #pseudoscience in #Germany before the Nazis
on 02025-12-12150kV stun-gun #hardware (but with some components blurred out? This “Nicolas Salenc” is carefully blurring out his resistor color codes and his transistor part numbers for some reason) Lots of sloppy schematics of different circuits. #video #pseudoscience
on 02024-04-03#manufacturing #ceramics by pit-firing in your back yard #video full of bullshit about pores in pottery opening with heat and closing when cooling, confusing grog with tempers in general, how “mineral vapors” produce different colors, etc., plus lots of useless footage of some guy talking to the camera #pseudoscience #misinformation
on 02024-04-03Sergey Baldenkov’s #pseudoscience site about #machining stone with vibrations in ancient #Egypt and stuff.
on 02017-03-22Sergey Baldenkov #video of #machining stone with extremely primitive vibrating bits (chunks of pipe tied to rocks, bent copper sheets, wires, other rocks) and wet abrasive, driven by a loudspeaker driving a metal diaphragm. Most of the sonic energy sounds like it’s in the 100Hz–1kHz band — the method would likely be faster and way less annoying if it were at a higher frequency, though getting vibrations big enough to use coarse abrasive would require higher power densities. Associated with all kinds of free-energy #pseudoscience nonsense (“technology of the ancients”, John Keely, Ed Leedskalnin’s Coral Castle, UFOs, etc.)
on 02017-03-22on how self-deception in #facilitated-communication results in #rape of people with #autism by their “facilitators”, as well as false rape accusations against their family members, enabled by wishful thinking and #pseudoscience.
on 02015-11-12