Friday, August 27, 2010

The UoM's "Excited Delirium Education, Research and Information Center"

I mourn the death of the scientific method.

At best, and being extremely generous, "Excited Delirium" is a hypothesis. It is a hypothesis that is widely UNACCEPTED. It is rightfully categorized as loonie pseudo-science probably incorrect because, as a purported cause of death, it is WAY too often associated with law enforcement and their use of tasers.

Nailing up a sign over the lab door, a sign that includes an implicit assumption that "excited delirium" is a correct and complete explanation for all the deaths is an abandonment of the scientific method.

The name of this "lab" is an admission that it's now a sort-of religion. Their motto should be "We Believe! And you won't change our minds."

Is it a branch office of The Church of Taser?

There have certainly been some very weird connections.

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