gah!!! learn what a scientific theory is, please!!! read the good post above. learn it! creationism should be thaught in school when it has gone through every step that real science has to before it is acknowledge (which it cant). sigh. america in 2007, believing this? you had people on the moon in the last millenium!! stay ahead as the coolest science country on the planet isntead of stepping way back into a religious infused state of denial and misguided fundamentalism.

Don't get your undies all in a bunch, Bl.

"Sorry a viral advertising scam for a scanner darkly attempting to masquerade as real science."

Are you referring to a rumor started by a comment made by a Slashdotter noting the similiarity between Margellons and Dick's writing, a rumor that was subsequently spread around the net as fact? Hmmmmm....

You're right, the JAAD did print two letters and commentary. In scientific communities, letters are submitted as such, and not as papers, which would carry much more weight in the scientific and medical communities, because there is no real data to support them.

Of course, the CDC doesn't really lend any credence to the whole viral advertisement idea, and as JD mentioned, they're launching a proper investigation into the possibility of the disease.

The disease may be be a result of delusional parasitosis, sure, and likely is. But that does not mean that there is no benefit nor use to properly researching the disease, be it a psychological phenomenon or a parasitic infection, nor is it proof or even indication that the disease is being used as a marketing tool. There's a reason there are infectious disease experts seriously researching this disease, and it's not because they want to help sell a movie that's been out for nearly a year.

Sorry a viral advertising scam for a scanner darkly attempting to masquerade as real science.

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*promote

I saw this movie tonight here in Sydney. The trailer makes it look like a cliched rehash of movies like Armegeddon. However, don't be fooled - this is a very smart movie that uses a lot of real science. I was impressed.

The feel was kind of a cross between 2001 SO, and Alien. I'm calling this the sleeper hit of 2007.

Sorry USAian's it won't be released there until September.

LOL!! People are soooo stupid.
-"latency travels further on the momentum of other networks and RF interference."
-"The wifi card doesn't know how to extrapolate the router signal from the carrier wave"
-"cell phones search for network ping no matter how far away"

They could have at least made this based somewhat on some REAL science. Like place salad bowl on top of computer. That might actually work. First of all cell phones are 900Mhz/1800/1850/1900MHz.. 802.11 is 2.4GHz or 5Ghz...

Now the issue with an ethernet cable.. Geez, wireless cards don't have ethernet ports, so I'm guessing you are using your ethernet to wrap around a phone. But even it could induce a signal to your ethernet card, it is ETHERNET not 802.11... Not only that, you have to plug the thing in and use about 6 wires just for your computer to think it is connected.

Technically, by plugging in ethernet to case, you could be injecting noise into your computers ground plane. Thereby changing the noise floor on your wireless lan card. So the S/N ratio might be affected... But it is still a prank.

This is a 'science' documentary created by Ramtha School of Enlightenment (a cult-like movement). It's a bizarre film mixing real science with un-proven mystical experiments, through the story of a really annoying deaf woman (hence the comedy). From the Google Video:

The topics discussed in What the Bleep Do We Know!? include neurology, quantum physics, psychology, epistemology, ontology, metaphysics, magical thinking and spirituality. The film features interviews with individuals presented as experts in science and spirituality, interspersed with the story of a deaf photographer as she struggles with her situation. Computer-animated graphics feature heavily in the film. The film has received widespread criticism from the scientific community. Physicists, in particular, claim that the film grossly misrepresents the meaning of various principles of quantum mechanics, and is in fact pseudoscience.

The comments of those presented as scientific experts converge on a single theme: "We all create our own reality." This is not a widely held view of physics by the scientific community, but it correlates well with subjective experience.

I've read Behe's book Darwin's Black Box, and I love the image from 51:20 where all these papers contradicting him are piled up in front of him- "Have you read this?" "No"

Awesome mental image. I wish I could have seen it.

59:15- "didn't they learn anything from the Nixon Administration? Burn the evidence!!!"

bamdrew- I would say tune in around 64:30- When he explains how ID is trying to "jump the cue" so to speak- get their BS taught in science class, even though it isn't science. Even though it gets totally pwned by real science, even though it offers absolutely nothing constructive to the scientific process- they are just trying to use a political process, instead of a scientific one.

Yes, I would say if you want the sound bite version, watch from 64:30 to 69:30. It's 5 minutes, but he quite succintly and eloquently explains exactly why ID is NOT science and why it is dangerous to America