I’m scooping up this article, because it offers a nice continuation to the reflexion started by the French-speaking blog of Sham & Science in a blog post from last week about the difference between science and “sciencey”. Or rather, about the difference between scientism and science. While the latter offered some tips on how to recognise manipulated or unverified claims disguised as science through “sciencey” editorial tricks (like enlisting autority figures of a field as a back-up, multiplying references to journals and newspapers, to give the impression that the claims is consensual among experts, using a technical jargons and referring to high-level statistics and probabilities to…