(via email) AudioQuest K2 terminated speaker cable – UST plugs 8′ (2.44m) pair – $6,800.00 (You Save: $1,650.00) $6800 for a pair of 2.44m speaker cables? If there are people out there willing to pay thousands of dollars for wire, then I’m in the wrong business.
Archive of posts filed under the Skeptic category.
Textbook FAIL
(via Pharyngula) Here’s a scanned page from a Christian science textbook published by Bob Jones University: It says something about this country that there is even a market for this kind of garbage.
Martin Gardner, 1914 – 2010
(via James Randi)
Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914 – May 22, 2010)
I was exposed to Gardner’s books columns in Scientific American at a relatively early age. It’s hard to express the influence he had on me…
Quantum
What PZ Myers said: When anyone other than a particle physicist talks about “quantum”, it is almost always a magic word used to project a pseudoscientific aura onto sheer raving lunacy. “Quantum” as a prefix is almost universally used to signify that the noun it modifies is about to be made crazy stupid. So simple, [...]
Again: Are polygraphs worthless?
(via What’s new by Bob Park – Friday, January 15, 2010) 2. CIA: HOW MANY SPIES HAS THE POLYGRAPH EXPOSED? According to a CBS News account of the suicide bombing at a CIA base in Afghanistan, “The double agent was brought onto the base without first being given a polygraph test, one of the basic [...]
Audio Cable Scams
(via eSkeptic) Audiophoolery by Ethan Winer YOU MIGHT THINK that a science-based field like audio engineering would be immune to the kind of magical thinking we see in other fields. Unfortunately, you would be wrong. In my 35 years as a professional audio engineer and musician, I’ve seen some of the most outrageous pseudoscience sold [...]
Probably something a gullible audiophile would buy…
(via email) Anti-Static FAIL: Cables Unlimited Anti-Static Wireless Wrist Strap Cables Unlimited’s cordless Anti-Static wrist strap harmlessly rids your body of static charges before it can damage your valuable data or computer equipment. Featuring a fully adjustable elastic fabric strap it fits comfortably around your wrist, dissipating harmful static, allowing you to install or remove [...]
Physics FAIL
(via Pharyngula)
Charlene Werner displays an appalling ignorance of physics (and science in general):
(more…)If you’re willing to pay extra for premium cables…
Here’s another product for you! (via email) Get Real! Swift Written by James Randi Tuesday, 27 October 2009 00:00 A gushing ad for the WattGate 381, a $148 110-volt wall receptacle, is a masterpiece of misrepresentation, hyperbole, and mendacity that just could attract a starry-eyed Audio-Visual fan. And stupidity – just in case the vendors [...]
Are audiophiles really this stupid?
(via email) Cable Break-In Service The inconvenience of cable break-in: Brand new cables require up to 400 hours to properly settle down sonically. This is a great inconvenience, requiring time and effort, as well as hours spent on your equipment before you can enjoy the full sonic potential of the cables you purchased. If you [...]
