Pseudo-Metaphysics

Massimo Pigliucci has a post over at Rationally Speaking that reminds me how easily I get irritated by pseudo-scientific waffle with a metaphysical slant. And I really get irate when it’s uttered by people who should know better. Pigliucci quotes the physicist Paul Davies as an example of a generator of metaphysical waffle, and I agree with the assessment. I was watching the BBC’s The Sky at Night special on "Life" last week and Davies was being interviewed. It was all I could do to refrain from picking up the TV and hurling it through the window. Templeton prize-winning stuff and nonsense.