When is “woo”, not just new, but taboo?
Quantum woo pseudoscience you pooh-pooh
(Since it’s false to your pet
Ideology bet),
Thus you dismiss it all as doo-doo!
Quantum woo is the justification of irrational beliefs by an obfuscatory reference to quantum physics. However, quantum theory/logic has a role in biology and perhaps consciousness (as in the new science of Quantum Biology). It is not all necessarily "woo". Some who claim (by the demarcation theory in the philosophy of science) that a new (outside of a physics domain) theory, is pseudoscience need to ensure that their reasoning is not based on an ideology that is not irrational given the findings of quantum theory, e.g., a naive materialism/realism. By making a claim, and risking setting taboo status on a research area by their criticism (i.e., pooh-poohing) it needs to be rigorously considered (with an open mind as to the ideology underpinning reality). Otherwise the critic can be criticised as being pseudoskeptical, and himself talking doo-doo!
Quantum woo pseudoscience you pooh-pooh
(Since it’s false to your pet
Ideology bet),
Thus you dismiss it all as doo-doo!
Quantum woo is the justification of irrational beliefs by an obfuscatory reference to quantum physics. However, quantum theory/logic has a role in biology and perhaps consciousness (as in the new science of Quantum Biology). It is not all necessarily "woo". Some who claim (by the demarcation theory in the philosophy of science) that a new (outside of a physics domain) theory, is pseudoscience need to ensure that their reasoning is not based on an ideology that is not irrational given the findings of quantum theory, e.g., a naive materialism/realism. By making a claim, and risking setting taboo status on a research area by their criticism (i.e., pooh-poohing) it needs to be rigorously considered (with an open mind as to the ideology underpinning reality). Otherwise the critic can be criticised as being pseudoskeptical, and himself talking doo-doo!
