Stop using quantum mechanics to science-wash your delusions

I'm sorry, but if you think you understand quantum mechanics, you're kidding yourself.

So you watched a YouTube video about quantum entanglement.

That doesn't mean you understand Bell's theorem.

Don't worry, you're in good company.

The physicist Richard Feynman once wrote, I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

But just so you know, when you make confident claims about a theory you don't understand, you don't come across as clever.

You come across as, well, the opposite of clever.

And if you're invoking quantum mechanics to lend credence to your beliefs, you're doing it backwards.

Look, if you want to believe in crystals or reincarnation or free will or whatever else takes your fancy, good luck to you.

But if you start with your belief and go out looking for a way to lend credence to it, what you're doing isn't science.

Science starts with reality and goes out looking for a model that might make sense of that reality.

What you're doing is science-washing.