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In reply to the discussion: NASA Tests "Impossible" Perpetual Motion Drive; Says it Works [View all]DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)There's a reason I posted "Woo refers to crackpot nonsense that derives from religious, mystical, spiritual, occult ideas of how things work. There is nothing paranormal about unproven science. It is simply unproven science until it is proven science."
We don't disagree on the significance of this development should it be further verified, but I do object to the attempt to make a word mean what it does not, refer to what it does not. There were no declarations of reiki energy in cold fusion and there are no attempts to link this phenomenon to whichever star is in ascendency. There is only science rising or falling on its merits, its reproducibility, and its independent verification. Woo proponents refuse to adhere to scientific principles and be subject to the same rigors as real scientists. Woo proponents instead appeal to magic or "Because God."
This is not Woo. This is science. Science can succeed, it can fail, it can evolve from earlier and incomplete understandings, but it remains science.