Court forcing 16 yr old with cancer into chemo

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Prudence

Well geeze, you can always find a wacked out person to endorse anything. I don't think that condemns alternative medicine any more than it condemns geology.

On this one, my point wasn't that it condemns it, just that calls to authority don't necessarily endorse it. One of the tools of pseudoscientists is reliance on pedigree put to misuse.

The guy responsible for the whole face on Mars lunacy was also one of the most brilliant planetary scientists of the '60s. His claims (Richard Hoagland, by the way) are obviously beyond stupid but a lot of people buy into them simply because he has an impressive resume.

Having a wacko proponent is certainly not dispositive evidence. But neither is a string of letters after your name positive evidence.