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Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, good to finally have a name for this. I remember back in the days when discussing "chemtrails", believers often stated that they had not seen persisting contrails in the past, therefore persisting contrails is a new thing that should be met with suspicion. While...

I think what you are referring you is 'intensity', @benthamitemetric To my understanding, and please correct me if wrong, but intensity in physical terms is the density of the radiating energy (the energy flux). In common language we call that "brightness" when talking about light. More...

Perhaps it's a good thing to include a proper explanation what a truss system is, why it's designed the way it is, and how the truss system's stress resistance decreases as the original shape of the system is deformed. That would likely help some to understand the chain analogy even better.

Well explained, @Mick West. The term "deep state" has been mentioned way more frequently now when Trump is US president. Never heard the term before Trump won the election.

But videos questioning whether the shooting really happened and claiming that the government has lied about basic facts have already garnered millions of views on YouTube and are continuing to run rampant. Interesting considering that most who are into the 'false flag' narrative would say that...

Okay, here is the animation previously mentioned. It basically demonstrates the same thing as @Mick West's previous example, except that it shows how the reflection of the environment will change according to the curvature of the surface.

I think I can do a virtual dynamic illustration of the phenomenon if anyone is interested. Basically what Mick already did except I can do it more illustrative.

We all know that sensationalism and controversy sells, it always has. The core principle hasn't change, but the way social media works have really pushed this phenomenon to extremes. For example, Esquire Magazine recently published an article about how a couple of tech-savvy youngsters in...

Just as an example of how easily things become distorted, and how easily people fall for it, I recently saw a tweet made by Minecraft creator Marcus Persson, aka Notch, where he seemed to blame Hillary for the recent Mississippi church burning by referring to an image compiled of two images of...

Adding to this thread, studies made by criminal psychologist Julia Shaw shows that it's possible to create false memories when input is added from an external source. Shaw's published study explains: This study provides evidence that people can come to visualize and recall detailed false...

I don't think I can recall a single conspiracy topic that has not been politicised by the "sceptics". ie. the believers.

Yeah, my intention was to deal with narrow, specific claims like in my example. I had in mind a sub-section in the Science and Pseudoscience section maybe. But perhaps not. Not necessarily, but I get your point. I usually discuss climate science from time to time and over the years I have...

I know there are several excellent blogs out there that address the climate change topic. Sites such as ScepticalScience and RealClimate are doing a good job debunking a lot of misconceptions of climate science. However, they don't provide proper forums for discussion. Comment sections yes, but...

Thanks @Mick West for summarizing this still prevailing point.

Thank you all for the clarification. Yes, the points brought by @Spectrar Ghost is what I meant originally. While some commercial aircraft flies on the edge of the lower stratosphere, it is no where near the altitude where SAI is proposed to be ejected. I will add this to my OP for...

A recent speech by CIA director John O. Brennan at the Council on Foreign Relations mentioned geoengineering, specifically stratospheric aerosol injection. Claim: • CIA director John O. Brennan at the Council admits geoengineering in the form of stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) is taking...

If you can't prove it, why assume it? A fair question that should be posed to those who insist on keeping believing despite lack of evidence.

Are you used to work with three-dimensional shapes? As a graphics artist I'm used to measure shapes by eye, and for me the illusion completely disappears when the base of the pieces are aligned to a horizontal or vertical plane. I think a slanted base line, disguises the fact that the pieces...

Yeah, perspective definitely enhances the illusion. Here is a simple animated illustration using dolly zoom. For example, most modern phone cameras can be very wide angled. Shooting something that close usually leads to a very wide angle of view.

Well, according to the study "Debunked: something" could be problematic: instead of remembering “cheese is nothing like crack,” our brains remember “cheese is like crack (false).” As our memories fade, the qualifier on the statement may fade too But there is a lot more into debunking than...