Irrational science

Science is not always rational. Some people like to pretend it is, but that's irrational.

Scientists are human, and they make human mistakes. The scientific method is unmatched for removing human error from knowledge seeking, but humans are really good at injecting errors into even the most error-resistant processes.

This is an opportunity to celebrate the delightfully irrational world of professional science: And then there's all the stuff that pretends to be science, but isn't.
 * Academic flame wars
 * The half-life of facts
 * Improbable research
 * Public controversies
 * Quantum anything
 * The Multiverse

it would be foolish to satirise everything anti-science, without turning some satirical attention to science itself.