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Catching Fire, Audio Science Forums, Pseudo Science Claim, Brainwash, and Awakening!

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 Catching Fire, Audio Science Forums, Pseudo Science Claim, Brainwash, and Awakening! Catching Fire is the 2nd movie of the Hunger Game series. The movie is very interesting. The following are the themes of the movie (from wikipedia): How these terms Catching Fire , Audio Science Forums , Pseudo Science Claim , Brainwash, and Awakening  can be linked together? Audio Science Forums and Pseudo Science Claim I'd explained why I created my blog and it shows clearly how audio science forums are linked with pseudo science claims.  Most of the writings in my blogs revealed the Pseudo Science Claim / behaviours happening in these "Audio Science" forums. I found that most of the senior members (and the moderators) are probably having an Electrical Engineering background. Their level of understanding of Audio Science is probably (at most) up to a level that an average electrical engineer could master.   Monty's video is a good example. Good mastery in Audio Science (and...

Is pseudo science really having zero tolerance on critical thinking? Magic! Now you don't see it!

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Magic! Now you don't see it !   Background for our discussion: 1. As stated in " why I start my blog ",  I created my account (@sunjam) in Audio Science Forum (ASR ) for my journey in the Audio Science World on 19 March 2024. 2. I saw a lot of fun and inspiring topics in ASR 3. Meanwhile, I noticed the wrong belief (i.e. the claim) that " Hi-Res is useless " ( statement 1 ) were being promoted by a lot of ASR members (including "Major Contributors", "Donors", "Sponsor", "Industrial Insider") to the people who question the claim 4. Most of these supporters claim "statement 1" is " factual ". They emphasized that there are a lot of objective tests / measurements supporting such claim. For example, this is the  paper  (from Journal of the Audio Engineering Socieity) they used for the claim. (This blog explain why the paper does not support statement 1) 5. Some of these supporters even state th...