Reviewer dislikes Hoax, perhaps intensely

The Einstein Hoax

Standard experimental techniques exist to determine the propagation speed of forces. When we apply these techniques to gravity, they all yield propagation speeds too great to measure, substantially faster than light-speed. This is because gravity, in contrast to light, has no detectable aberration or propagation delay for its action, even for cases (such as binary pulsars) where sources of grav...

Social Media Likes and Dislikes

The internet age, in particular the advent of social media, has created a brave new world of broadcasting instant criticism of scientific papers, for good or ill. I think there is a clear “good” side, illustrated by cases where papers making very radical claims on shaky grounds are published in high-profile journals to large media acclaim. There was a good example of this in 2010, when Science ...

African Eve: Hoax or Hypothesis?

The replacement hypothesis proposes that “modern humans” evolved only in sub-Saharan Africa, through a speciation event rendering them unable to breed with other hominins. They then spread throughout Africa, then to Asia, Australia and finally to Europe, replacing all other humans by exterminating or outcompeting them. In this critical analysis of the replacement hypothesis it is shown that it ...

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E-Mail System for Automatic Hoax Recognition

With the advent of Information society false and inaccurate information represents one of the major problems. Hoaxes and unsolicited commercial e-mail messages (SPAM) are an important example of such information. A conceptual solution together with the developed system for automatic hoax recognition is presented. Hoax recognition is done in several parallel steps to increase system accuracy and...