Science Is Badass!

A semi-regular blog by Tim Barribeau, of all the science news he can't find a buyer for.

Bad Science Of The Week: Martian Gorillas

There’s bad science, and then there’s the Sun. Amateur astronomer thinks a hunk of Mars rocks is some sort of ape-like alien. That’s some fine journalism there, Lou. This is something called pareidolia, where our mind tries to make sense of more-or-less random information. If you’ve ever seen shapes in television static, or heard voices on [...]