Indeed, I sometimes think they have a secret handshake or something that permits them to recognize one another. They gather together to provide reinforcement. A persistent irony of scientific progress is its encouragement of pseudoscientific claims. Science begets pseudoscience. That single insight is worth the price of admission to this book.
Scientists are eager to tell the public what it's like on the frontier.
We regale them with speculations about parallel universes, quantum teleportation, wormholes through spacetime and 10-dimensional superstrings. But what the nonscientist may be taking away from this is just that the universe is so strange that anything can happen. This opens the way for New Age gurus to sprinkle their message with words drawn from science. Alternative healers speak of energy, resonance, and balance, but the words have no substance. They lack any definition.