• The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Important context: it’s a mix of things that do and don’t exist which all have a certain cachet with junk science. Tesla coils are definitely real, for example. It’s just that junk/fringe science may use them to make their flimflam theory seem more exciting.

    • Jordan Lund@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      Maybe “science fiction buzzwords” is a better descriptor then, because I started at antmatter and I was like “how is that ‘fringe’?”

    • Chetzemoka@kbin.social
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      I similarly thought this was supposed to be a list meant to help you identify when someone is deploying fringe science. But in the context of the community (sciencefiction) and some of the other comments, I’ve realized that I think it’s meant to be sample signs you could use in a story like at a lab where that kind of “science” was being done.

    • Crul@lemm.eeOP
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      AFAIK all of them are fake warning signs but, as you said, some of them reference real stuff.

      I didn’t add any indication that they are fake because I assumed it was implied by posting in science fiction communities. If not, I will add a warning.