It’s bad enough we’re blinded by science, but it’s worse when it’s junk science:

Countless specious, unreliable or unjustifiable “studies” are foisted on the public every month, asserting all manner of ridiculous and poorly reasoned conclusions that, coincidentally, seem always to support mythology favored by some group or other. That mythology generally says, “If you don’t like the group described, it’s OK to dismiss that group, because there’s something wrong with them. We know, because SCIENCE proves it!”

The result is a widespread societal and cultural intimidation, a theater-wide tyranny of pop attempting to cow those who don’t wish to be stereotyped, categorized and accordingly marginalized by a junk-science industry more concerned with witty comebacks than truth or journalism. Attempting to fight back against this cultural tyranny is self-defeating, because engaging these absurd mischaracterizations is perceived as lending credibility to the accusations leveled.

Read more of Phil Elmore’s “The Cultural Tyranny of Junk-Science ‘Studies'” here.