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SciencePunk is dedicated to seeking out and debunking bad science wherever it lurks. Here you can find corrupt scientists, wacky inventions, clueless brand managers, unscrupulous hoaxers, trickery, forgery, fraud, and a £500 crocodile clip.
16:22 30/09/06
Who said science wasn't romantic? This from the especially doe-eyed Romantic Math website.
21:01 07/09/06
You're only here because you came to see those hot pictures from Strip Club, huh? Well, you won't find any more hot pics on this site, just me kicking ass in the name of science, and a bunch of other geeky shit. Too bad for you, huh?
14:20 01/09/06
The 2006 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony is scheduled for October 5, and I can't wait. You may remember I linked to the Pitch Drop experiment a while back - this actually won the 2005 Ig Nobel Prize for Physics. Previous winners include Claire Rind and Peter Simmons, who monitored the brain activity of a locust watching selected highlights from Star Wars, and Gregg A. Miller, inventor of replacement testicles for dogs.
19:05 22/08/06
There's a big fuss going round about Irish company Steorn, who claim to have invented a Free Energy Generator. Everyone else in the world knows this means "Perpetual Motion Machine", and rightly assumes this is nothing but a scam. Steorn are calling upon the world's scientists to prove their machine is a fake. Question is, if the machine works, why bother setting such a stupid challenge? Why not start making money now? The patent office doesn't even award patents to Perpetual Motion Machines without a working prototype in evidence - hence they are (perpetually) "patent pending". SciencePunk predicts, just like Charles Redheffer and Louis Enricht, some chump will invest a few million in this scam and the people behind Steorn will never be seen again.
20:08 21/08/06
Ever been stuck trying to remember Pi? Not any more! Simply visit this page and you can calculate circumfrences to the 1,000,000th decimal place! Safe.
18:05 12/08/06
 What could be better than finding out about one of the longest-running experiments of all time? Watching it in action of course! For the last 76 years, a blob of pitch (you know, the tar stuff) has been slowly dripping out of a funnel. You can now watch the Pitch Drop experiment live via webcam. No one has ever witnessed one of the drops (8 and counting!) fall, so perhaps you'll be the first.
15:18 11/08/06
I've finally remembered to include a link here to one of my favourite sites of all time: If WisheRs Were Horses. The site features helpful advice on Human-Equine Transformation, or, how to turn yourself into a horse. It's deadly serious, and if you're disappointed to learn that restorative surgery hasn't conquered this particular challenge yet, Quantum Dynamics provides the "small but finite chance that you will spontaneously become a horse". Brilliantly loopy.
09:04 24/07/2006
I recently stumbled onto a site intriguingly titled
Everyman's Weapon Against Tyranny, which features a step-by-step guide to constructing a Power Wand with built-in "Succor Punch" technology, using "orgonite", pipe and, of course, crystals.
This is worth reading as post-construction it rapidly departs from mainstream hippy nonsense into hyper-paranoid ravings. These are at first funny.
It's sufficient to say now that all of the vengeful military psychics, Montauk Wonks, Men in Black, dark masters, Satanists, etc., who took exception to our efforts by trying to disable us in the past few days got it all back in appropriate measure without us having to transgress the Law.
And steadily become deeply worrying.
There are probably Satanists on your town council and in your police force. It goes without saying that most of the judges are practicing baby killers.
Elsewhere on the site they claim to be able to cure AIDS using "zappers" (a 9V battery connected to two coins). It's depressing stuff.
15:26 17/07/2006
The BBC has chosen to publish an article discussing scientific fraud, which argues it's all about the money. Bizarrely, author Lisa Jardine uses the Piltdown Man hoax and Louis Pasteur as examples, neither of which involve scientific misconduct, or money. This is particularly curious when only days ago Newsnight discovered ten (of ten questioned) homeopaths prescribing nonsense-water to prevent malaria, one claiming that their preparation would "make it so your energy doesn't have a malaria-shaped hole in it".
08:04 10/07/2006
Hwang Woo-Suk is in the news again [link], where he is currently standing trial for fraud after faking the results of his cloning research. You can read a brief synopsis of this science skulduggery here.
12:02 07/07/2006
If ever the necessity for an entire section on Perpetual Motion Machines was in question, let me point you to ebay, where you can currently purchase a Ukranian "Free Energy Generator" for the bargain price of £143,600. Suitable with all types of air and all models of submarine.
15:03 27/06/2006
The Man Who Turned the World Inside Out, a.k.a. Ulysses Morrow has been added to the Bad Scientists repository. Click on his name to see how he did it.
18:39 22/06/2006
I just got me a new server. This means the site will be a little screwy for a bit, but keep trying and you never know what you'll find.
10:10 22/06/2006
Anti-gravity hoaxster and bad scientists John Hutchison has been added to the site! Also, soon I'll be moving to a new host and making the site look sweet, and have feedback forms, comment boxes, cool graphics... You get the idea. I also found a speaker cable that costs 30 grand, (yes, $30,750) which will have to be featured.
11:57 20/06/2006
Did I say all the bad scientists? How could I ever get them all up? Still to come: Gillian McKeith, Ulysses Morrow, Helmut Schimmel, Rupert Sheldrake, Reinhold Voll, John Hutchison, and possibly, Gerald Bull. On the plus side, Machina Dynamica's Brilliant Pebbles have been added, as well and Hwang Woo-Suk's profile in the Bad Scientists section. Unfortunately, I can't update the JavaScript so the scorecards for some of the bad scientist won't activate. This should be fixed in a day or two.
15:48 19/06/2006
All the bad scientists are up, with more to be added. Two new inventions are up - the EMF Hat and the Clever Little Clock. At this rate I'll start telling people about my site soon.
10:52 13/06/2006
The new site is going up! If everything goes smoothly, SciencePunk.com will be fully live in a few weeks. I'm so excited I could shit.
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