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>"There are a lot of reasons why we might want to know if some nefarious character's been in a certain room in the last few hours," Meadow says. "Maybe there's
by pervycreeper 11y ago
>"There are a lot of reasons why we might want to know if some nefarious character's been in a certain room in the last few hours," Meadow says. "Maybe there's a way to use microbes for that."
We have just witnessed the birth of a pseudoscience.
- DiabloD3 11y agoI swear I read a scifi novel from the 70s or 80s that had this as a plot, I just can't think which one.
- swasheck 11y agomichael crichton wrote Prey which is about something similar to this (i don't want to say too much so as to not introduce a spoiler). that wasnt from the 70s or 80s, though.
- ratfacemcgee 11y agomaybe an episode of The Twilight Zone? "Submitted for your approval, a world where pseudoscience has taken over..."
- swasheck 11y agodid you see their remarkable sample size? n = 11 interesting first step, but not nearly enough data to begin postulating potential applications.
- jessaustin 11y agoThe best kind of pseudoscience: one that will send innocents to prison and worse when forensic hucksters use it in testimony before criminal courts.