Did I miss the meme machine memo?
Most every blog I view is working “woo” into the brew:
- Matt Yglesias writes of Woo Data.
- Skeptico blogs upon the Provenance for Woo.
- Pharyngula comments on a “Catholic conference full of woo.”
- ERV is “certain the woo-crew will have a field day” with as yet unpublished research.
What gives here? Terms like “pseudoscience,” “quackery,” and “mysticism” going out of style? Has the single-syllabification which afflicted the legacy media years ago now striking even the best and brightest of the blog-o-sphere?
FYI: “Woo” is authoritatively defined at the Skeptic’s Dictionary.
I thinks it's a TAM/skeptic thing that's making the rounds. Think about all the Christianese lingo.
ReplyDeleteI know how the Xn lingo spreads - top down from the shepard to the sheeple. Evidently the freethinkers are also little meme machines. Not necessarily a Bad Thing (TM) but it is worth noting.
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