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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

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Sat Sep 20, 2014, 02:59 PM Sep 2014

Whenever a famous scientist I respected turns out to be a total heel, it bothers me. [View all]

The latest example, is Jane Goodall.

I mean, over the decades I followed her research diligently, because her interactions with wild chimpanzees were simply fascinating.
She even showed the darker side of some wild chimps, how they attacked and killed other chimps, and a few, (VERY few,) female wild chimps killed and ate other chimps' babies.

BUT...

Recently Jane Goodall wrote a book called "Seeds of Hope," that not only uses "science" that has no documentation, she plagiarized parts of the book, and praises a book by a guy who's only post-high school education is a education degree from the totally unaccredited Maharishi Yogi "college."
(Jeffrey Smith)

I'm afraid Jane Goodall despite her earlier excellent work, has lost all credibility.

And this is nothing new.

Look up "odic force," "N-rays," or Linus Pauling and vitamin C.

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