The website about finding a new, “correct” value for pi falls into pseudoscience. The author, Mohammad-Reza Mehdinia, commits the logical fallacy of availability bias, which doubles as skipping an important aspect of science. This feature is considering previous experiments, data, or works and sifting through why they do not match with the new information. Mehdinia writes on his site that he does not include or consider the previous works involving pi in his research and calculations. While allegedly incorrect calculations might not aid in the new ones, they would be important for creating a complete argument. Their inclusion would provide opportunities to show why they were initially wrong or where mathematical errors entered the fray. This
