Weird Science

David Kasakove, "Stan s Writing and Editing," Write Now 18 (Summer 2008), qtd. 59. Weird Science 14 (September/October 1950) (EC Comics). 

Chemistry is a weird science where the canon rules of simplicity and complexity are viewed as intrinsic coexisting denominators. If this proposition is shared, the prerequisites mentioned above do not fulfil the chemical world. The development of chemical research in its own different fields requires that the usual philosophical approaches must be modified and improved. This as an example is the case of the characterization of molecular systems in mesoscopic scale. A limited number of findings, which has been obtained in the Florence Laboratory for the study of magnetic materials (LAMM), will be discussed here with the aim of supporting this statement. 

Change these relationships significantly, and our Universe and life as we know it could not exist. For an in-depth discussion on the meaning of these coincidences, see Michael Shermer, Why People Believe Weird Things (New York MJF Books, 1997), 263. Also see Clifford A. Pickover, The Paradox of God and The Science of Omniscience (New York Palgrave, 2002). 

Although there are insects with weird quirks in their life cycles that seem like something out of science fiction, the development of most insects follows one of two basic patterns of metamorphosis, or change of form. 

We hope that this brief glance at other possible standard states, like a science fiction story about other possible worlds, will not only clarify the present way of doing things, but make it more acceptable in the sense that although standard states are a little weird, they could be worse. 

Gary Taubes, Bad Science The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion (Random House, New York, 1993), p. 4. 

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