Climate change sceptics, peddlers of ID and antivivisectionists all have one thing in common – a tendency to cherry-pick, or failing that, bastardise, science so that it seems to support their view.

This quote from Nature could be used to describe all three groups (although the article reference is about climate change sceptics).

"Their argument continues to shift,” says Naomi Oreskes, a geologist and science historian at the University of California, San Diego. “That makes it clear that the issue for them is not the science. Whatever the science is, they will try to find ways to question it.”

Climate change 2007: Climate sceptics switch focus to economics, Michael Hopkin
Nature 445, 8th Feb 2007, doi:10.1038/445582a

This spoof site about the dangers of ‘dihydrogen monoxide’ (water to the non-chemically minded) shows how anything can be supported by corkscrewed ‘science’.

Whilst we’re on the subject of pseudoscience, some of you may remember this blog of mine, Scientific method overthrown!