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Emoto claimed that water was a "blueprint for our reality" and that emotional "energies" and "vibrations" could change its physical structure. [14] His water crystal experiments consisted of exposing water in glasses to various words, pictures, or music, then freezing it and examining the ice crystals' aesthetic properties with microscopic photography. [9]
William Reville, professor of biochemistry at University College Cork writing in the Irish Times, described The Hidden Messages in Water as a work of pseudoscience, and characterized the book as "an amalgam of science and mumbo-jumbo" with "no credible hypothesis as to causation, no development of the idea, no fruitfulness in the concept, and, above all, no clear scientific demonstration". [4]
The English Mercurie, a literary hoax purporting to be the first English-language newspaper. The Fiji mermaid , the supposed remains of a half-fish half-human hybrid. The furry trout , a fictional legendary creature consisting of a trout with a thick coat of fur.
Sokal in 2011. In an interview on the U.S. radio program All Things Considered, Sokal said he was inspired to submit the bogus article after reading Higher Superstition (1994), in which authors Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt claim that some humanities journals will publish anything as long as it has "the proper leftist thought" and quoted (or was written by) well-known leftist thinkers.
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Per Smith, "Screams Without Words" "played a central role in an Israeli campaign to criticize American feminist organizations and the U.N. for not siding with Israel" in the war in Gaza. He was critical of aspects of the Intercept article, saying that it began with "implication of a government conspiracy but no indication of one".
[500]: 41 It has since been debunked as pseudoscience [501]: 2 and part of the edifice of scientific racism. [ 502 ] Melanin theory – belief founded in the distortion of known physical properties of melanin, a natural polymer, that posits the inherent superiority of dark-skinned people and the essential inhumanity and inferiority of light ...
In English, "X" was first used as a scribal abbreviation for "Christ" in 1021. [110] [111] The word crap did not originate as a back-formation of British plumber Thomas Crapper's apt surname. [112] The word crap ultimately comes from Medieval Latin crappa. [112] [113] The word fuck did not originate in the Middle Ages as an acronym. [114]