This isn't right. It's not even wrong.

Oh, I love a good rant on the nature of validity in science. Especially when it starts up with some choice epigrams.

Courtesy of Scientific American.

Too many links and you have a chain

While I'm in the mood for linking to rants, there is a really interesting one over on Paul McAuley's blog about definitions in SF and the undesirability of creating limiting definitions. It is worth following the links and also the links from this earlier related post.