- Their claims are vague, not well defined, convoluted, and they don't say exactly how they obtain their claims. Therefore, you don't know if what they say is true, and you don't know exactly what they're talking about. When someone talks about "energy transfer"... uhhh, what ******** kind of energy are they talking about? Is it vital energy, Chi, Divine Breath, Spiral Power, or what?
They always say "BUT THIS IS ******** TRUE!" rather than finding a way to say "This is false", because it's just so ******** easy to prove they're wrong. And don't come over and tell me s**t like "You don't know it, so it's true" or "You can't see air, but you know it exists!", because that's just a ******** up fallacy. And don't tell me any weird-a** anecdote: they can help you come up with a hypothesis, but in the end, they just say something happens in a particular case. Those who keep claiming that aliens exist keep saying they exist all the time, yet they don't even dare finding a way to prove otherwise, bonus points if they claim they're Anti-Spirals and that we shall prepare to put up against Absolute Despair.
Nobody else checks their claims. They go straight to setting up a conference at a hotel, and if you want to check their findings, they say "Nope, I ain't giving it, top secret!". Since when is science "top secret", huh?
They don't make any progress, and you can't apply their theories to our everyday life. Pretty much the only advance on astrology ever since Greek astrology was created was the discovery of new planets and galaxies and the inclusion of Chinese astrology, and you can't build anything useful out of it. Quantum physics, on the other hand, even though it looks so arcane and weirdo, gave us three awesome things: the laser and by extension the DVD, the USB thumb drive, and the MOSFET transistor, the base of my Pentium Dual Core computer.
Anything you say against them, they take this s**t personal. If someone tells me, from engineering student to engineering student, that my UART is so ******** up I have to redesign it, I'll say "Ahhhh, all that work for nothing, I ******** fail at life, but what the ********", and that's it. But I once told my best friend there ain't such thing as vital energy, and he said "Dude, don't be an a*****e, there is vital energy and we release a big flash of that when we get violently killed!". I then steadfastly and stubbornly said "How much joules". As good friends, we finally made amends, but him taking it personally is what matters.
Their speech is confusing. Scientific language sounds like flashy, confusing technobabble at first, but its purpose is actually quite noble: it makes it easier to understand ourselves as scientists and engineers. When someone says "I just got cable Internet and have this little Cisco thingy where I plug the Internet and my computer, I do it and there's no Internets and I don't know what the hell should I do", I kinda know what they're talking about but I have to ask more; but when someone says "I have a Cisco Systems router, it has two Fast Ethernet ports, one for WAN connectivity via a DOCSIS-Ethernet bridge (I have Megacable) and another where you plug it to your LAN, but I can't see the console port and I can't open the terminal to configure it, which means I have no Internet access until the LAN interface is operational at layer 3", I know exactly what you're saying, it sounds 100% transparent and straightforward, and I can tell you exactly what you should do. But if you come to me blabbering some confusing s**t about metaphysics, angels and harnessing the Ultimate Power, I don't know what the ******** you're talking about and I'll be like hand-facing you at once.
