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Comment author: David_Gerard 16 January 2012 12:37:22AM -1 points [-]

A list of habitually abused scientific concepts in popular culture?

  • Godel's incompleteness theorem
  • Schroedinger's cat
  • many worlds
  • anything quantum really
  • most things about evolution

Add your own!

Comment author: TimS 16 January 2012 03:23:23AM *  1 point [-]

Scientifically, I suggest most of psychology and psychiatry (I'm looking at you, Law & Order: SVU). In a similar vein is programming/hacking (e.g. 24, any crime drama).

Godel's incompleteness theorem

In popular culture? What misunderstandings of it have you seen?

Comment author: David_Gerard 16 January 2012 09:08:42AM -1 points [-]

Hmm, not popular culture. Certainly arguing with people purveying nonsense as a form of the argument "you can't be certain therefore I might be right."

Comment author: [deleted] 16 January 2012 05:17:23AM 0 points [-]

Cryptography. Like, all of it.

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