Welcome Tom! Good to see you on Steemit. I’ll be looking forward to reading you here - as I could never bring myself to do the FBThing and have been reading your work indirectly. Winter coming, so will be needing your tonic and other health enhancers.
Regarding, “Barking Mad”, I know how some - lazy or worse - academics cherry pick facts and semantically manipulate their theses to their desired conclusions - not unlike far too many politicians and “advisors.” Critical thinking has always been essential to human advancement - it seems more now than ever.
As the authors of your example of bad science demonstrate, there is too much rubbish “science” and too many people just accept, without much thinking, a thesis just because... As the actor John Wayne remarked, “Life is tough. It’s tougher if you’re stupid.”
In any case, welcome to Steemit!
RE: Barking Mad - bad science in action