Saturday links, science and medicine (opens in new tab)

Raghuveer Parthasarathy: Space mirrors, solar panels, fools, and their money. A few months ago I noted that the one of the main reasons biotech was not like tech was its almost unlimited freedom do bullshit. Well, people are able to raise money by BS in other areas as well, as this article shows, but an order of magnitude less because most investors are able to do back of the envelope calculations.