One problem with this method is that constructing a complex theory to fit a conclusion isn’t that much easier than constructing one to fit the facts, and let’s face it, if you were smart enough to do the latter you wouldn’t go into the business of doing the former. So pseudosciences are rarely even good pseudoscience. Goreism is a leading example.

Bjorn Lomborg viciously exploits this weakness: he takes the “science” of Goreism seriously. He showed that the Kyoto Treaty, if fed into the same models worshipped by Goreites, is predicted by the models to produce insignificant effects. The Goreites, unwilling to attack their own idols, pretended that Lomborg had rejected their models and attacked him for that instead — the exact opposite of his approach!

A well-designed pseudoscience wouldn’t require followers to embarrass themselves like that.

Hey, I proposed something similar to plug the hole in the Ozone Layer — Build a giant fan above the 405-101 junction in the Valley, attach it to a giant lightweight nano-fibre tube long enough to reach the *sphere where the Earth’s ozone layer concentrates, set the fan to REVERSE and throw the switch.

Move the ozone to where it ain’t from where it is. Ozone hole closed, no more carcinoma. Or so I told my father in law…furious