Science of the Fringe

The science of the Fringe case files is very... Well, to sum it up, ridiculous. However, it turns out that scientists and researchers outside of the FBI and the Fringe Teams are actually trying hypotheses and getting funding for ridiculous experiments. Fortunately, these researchers aren't unethically using the world as their testing grounds for experiments and kidnapping people to experiment on like ZFT did. However, the science that these people are exploring is still questionable at times.

In comparison to the sciences from the Fringe files, what I like to call real-life fringe science is actually more based in actual physics and actually obeys biological laws of the real world. The Fringe files' science is... It just doesn't make sense sometimes. During my exploration of the Fringe files, one of the more intriguing cases, I found is a disease called Bellini's Lymphosemia in one of Agent Dunham's report that was associated with the radioactive compound that overheated the gerbil heads in that one experiment I tried to recreate.

Apparently a component of the compound was an alleged "cure" for Bellini's Lymphoscemia. I was unsure at first if the disease existed so I checked with a few of my sources in the medical community. I found that there is no such thing as Bellini's Lymphoscemia. This seriously makes me think that the Fringe files are some elaborate FBI prank on my department. But they seriously shouldn't have the resources, or even the time to have made an elaborate thing like this. Plus there's no reason that they would want to even do something like that.

Well, moving back to the actual topic of this blog-- in our real fringe science some of the things that they're trying to do are... interesting, to sum it up. A few examples of their experiments are trying to apply quantum physics to AIDS and cancer research, cold fusion and telekinesis. However, sometimes ideas that come into the fringe science community are from non-scientists or researchers that don't even have an understanding of freshman-level physics.

Fortunately, there are actually societies that are made up of professionals that go through theories and actually conduct experiments to study unusual phenomena. One such organization is the SSE, or Society for Scientific Exploration. They have a journal about their findings that is also peer-edited by other people in the science community. Their journal has been collecting articles since 1987 and has published articles about topics such as quantum and biophysics, consciousness studies, alternative medicines and psychology.

The people within these communities actually don't condone what they think is bad science. When the SSE has conferences, they allow speakers up to talk about their theories and studies. But when they think that someone is doing bad science, the members of the community offer constructive criticism to stop them from continuing in the wrong direction or doing something unethical.

Some scientists actually are able to gain funding for their fringe science experiments. I'll summarize and analyze some of my favorite examples here.

Luc Montagnier is the man who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus in 2008. However, in 2009, he proposed that electromagnetic energy signals emanate from the DNA of bacterial pathogens. He said that the radiation should be at low levels, at 1000 Hz and that it should be able to survive extreme dilution. This is quite ludicrous because electromagnetic energy comes from sources such as light. Also his theory was based off of the work from another scientist who worked in fringe science as well. Montagnier took Benveniste's theory that immunoglobin molecules could be highly diluted, which is the model that Montagnier based his diluted electromagnetic energy signals on.



So, fringe science in the real world is thankfully not as diabolical as ZFT's world experimentation. Fortunately, most of the science in the fringe community is still speculative and any research that is actually being done is ethical due to the SSE and other scientists and organizations that keep "bad science" out of the fringe science community.