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 Pseudoscience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Many pseudosciences are associated with the New Age movement, but there is a tendency to improperly associate all "New Age" practices with pseudoscience.
Pseudosciences and medical practices are often quite popular.
Pseudoscience is any body of knowledge, methodology, or practice that is erroneously regarded as scientific
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience   (2520 words)

  
 The Sources of Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience is a system of views and ideas based on false principles outside science.
At times quite fraudulent trends of pseudoscience have developed under the cover of secrecy, for example, the so-called anti-cancer vaccine of Glezer and various spurious means of treating cancer.
But even this careless work does not lead to pseudoscience and does not present an especial danger to science.
http://humanism.al.ru/en/articles.phtml?num=000006   (1591 words)

  
 Thought Field Therapy: A Critical Analysis (Skeptical Inquirer, July 2000)
Pseudoscience in contemporary clinical psychology: What it is and what we can do about it.
The objective of a pseudoscience is often persuasion and promotion, in lieu of responsible investigation of claims (Bunge 1967).
One of the most popular of these power therapies, known as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), involves a therapist waving his or her fingers in front of the patient's eyes while the client imagines various disturbing scenes that are thought to be related to the patient's problems.
http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-07/thought-field-therapy.html   (3932 words)

  
 Steve's place - Pseudoscience
And there are so many pseudosciences to chose from: astrology, remote viewing, crystal therapy, acupuncture, iridology, urine therapy, clustered water therapy, unclustered water therapy, chiropractic, Feng-Shui, dowsing, homoeopathy, aura photography, and on and on.
Pseudoscience rears its head in so many places these days, you'd think that it was astral projection rather than engineering that got human beings onto the Moon, and that a good treatment for ovarian cancer isn't Taxol, but monoatomic-iridium clustered-water (do check out the link, you'll piss yourself laughing).
Fortunately for the more hard-core pseudosciences, there's no need to actually have any grain of truth or usefulness whatsoever within their bloated structures.
http://www.steve.gb.com/rants/pseudoscience.html   (5157 words)

  
 The Demise of Pseudoscience
I hasten to add that my ambivalence about the concept of pseudoscience should not be misunderstood as a defense of the psychologists, the theories, or the clinical practices justly criticized in this journal.
Science and pseudoscience in the development of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing: Implications for clinical psychology.
Lilienfeld, S. Pseudoscience in contemporary clinical psychology: What it is and what we can do about it.
http://www.srmhp.org/0202/pseudoscience.html   (2994 words)

  
 Commentary, March 17, 2004 — Science & Pseudoscience: the Differences, Hardly Just "Adequate," Dawkins In Las ...
Pseudoscience, however, uses invented modes of analysis which it pretends or professes meet the requirements of scientific method, but which in fact violate its essential attributes.
One problem in identifying pseudoscience is that some loosely-accepted methodological approaches to important questions are partly scientific and partly pseudoscientific, combining legitimate with illegitimate methods, inferences, and/or assumptions.
The general features of a pseudoscientific approach to phenomena are those which ignore, deny or violate the essential attributes of valid science.
http://www.randi.org/jr/031904science.html   (3157 words)

  
 Distinguishing Science and Pseudoscience
A distressing amount of pseudoscience is generated by scientists who are well trained in one field but plunge into another field of which they are ignorant.
Most of the examples in this article are related to my field of physics, but similar beliefs and behavior are associated with iridology, medical astrology, meridian therapy, reflexology, subluxation-based chiropractic, therapeutic touch, and other health-related pseudosciences.
Pseudoscience claims that the phenomena it studies are "jealous."
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/pseudo.html   (3127 words)

  
 Skeptical Inquirer: What does education really do? Educational dimensions and pseudoscience support in the American ...
Here, we define pseudoscience beliefs as cognitions about material phenomena that claim to be "science," yet use nonscientific evidentiary processes.
Confusion about how education affects pseudoscience belief occurs partly because the concept level of education consists of more dimensions than knowledge or skill attainment, the typical loci in studies of science literacy and pseudoscience support.
We untangle some of these conundrums by refining what it is that educational level does to influence pseudoscience acceptance.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2843/is_5_27/ai_108114811   (1338 words)

  
 How to Sell a Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience plays to this commonplace by offering ways to tap the unconscious, such as subliminal tapes, to prove this hidden power exists through extrasensory perception (ESP) and psi, or to talk with the remnants of this hidden spirituality through channeling and the seance.
Most pseudosciences are based on belief in a distant or phantom goal.
Another tactic for promoting pseudoscience and one of the most powerful tactics identified by social psychologists is self-generated persuasion -- the subtle design of the situation so that the targets persuade themselves.
http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/pratkanis.htm   (3774 words)

  
 Confessions of a Quackbuster: Recognizing Pseudoscience
The problem with pseudoscience is it deceives people into believing that for which there is no reliable evidence, using the cloak of science in the process.
One of the more prominent pseudosciences in current times is chiropractic.
Skepticism is one of the important habits of mind promoted by science and a need for credible evidence is another.
http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/recognizing-pseudoscience.html   (1120 words)

  
 Pseudoscience - EvoWiki
One possible problem with these criteria for recognizing pseudoscience is that only some of them are related to the contents of the theories, like containing demonstrably false statements, involving farfetched or contrived or ad hoc arguments, or being difficult or impossible to falsify.
Research by literary interpretation can be extended to include research by theological interpretation, research by the way one interprets one's favorite sacred books.
But one can nevertheless recognize the extremes of this continuum.
http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/Pseudoscience   (1546 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Science or Pseudoscience: Magnetic Healing, Psychic Phenomena, and Other Heterodoxies: Books: Henry H. Bauer
Debunkers often cite their concern for public rationality and scientific literacy; but by their lack of discrimination, and by their doom-saying and exaggerated assertions of the harm that supposedly flows from what they call pseudoscience, they fail to practice the rationality and scientific approach they preach.
Bauer notes that the more closely anomalistic research approaches science, the more strenuously it is criticized by the establishment, often in terms of heresy.
Reminding us that geniuses are cranks who happen to be right while cranks may be geniuses who happen to be wrong, Science or Pseudoscience offers a measured and thoughtful assessment of this volatile debate.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0252026012?v=glance   (3072 words)

  
 Pseudoscience & Pseudomedicine
PESTS is a meeting place for educators (specifically psychologists, although anyone is welcome) to discuss issues involving skeptical thinking and ways to introduce and teach skeptical thinking in the classroom.
An organization devoted to promoting the use of science and rational thinking in viewing the world.
NYTimes.com - Odds Are Stacked When Science Tries to Debate Pseudoscience
http://www.medlina.com/parascience_&_pseudoscience.htm   (1470 words)

  
 Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience is relatively simple to detect in themes as creationism, astrology, divination, chiromancy, homeopathy, holistic medicine, UFOs, Aliens, etc., but we face a true problem when we deal with academic pseudoscience.
A classical example of academic pseudoscience is the application of some scientific findings to prejudiced objectives.
Pseudoscience is any scheme of assertions, beliefs and methods, wrongly considered as scientific.
http://www.biocab.org/Pseudoscience.html   (4436 words)

  
 Nat'l Academies Press: Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction: Where Real Science Ends...and Pseudoscience Begins
Readers learn that science's most basic value is that all ideas about reality are subject to testing by experiment and challenge by critical, rational thought.
In a world where belief in pseudoscience can hurt people financially and medically, the general public has much to gain from the authors' contrast between the nature of scientific evidence and the stories of pseudoscience that fill the media."
With clear and concise writing, a wide scope of subjects and brilliant illustrations, this book makes an entertaining introduction to science and pseudoscience."
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10015.html   (2046 words)

  
 Science and Pseudoscience (transcript)
But then the problem of the demarcation between science and pseudoscience is not merely a problem of armchair philosophy: it is of vital social and political relevance.
Many philosophers have tried to solve the problem of demarcation in the following terms: a statement constitutes knowledge if sufficiently many people believe it sufficiently strongly.
But, in 1934, Karl Popper, one of the most influential philosophers of our time, argued that the mathematical probability of all theories, scientific or pseudoscientific, given any amount of evidence is zero.
http://lse.ac.uk/collections/lakatos/scienceAndPseudoscienceTranscript.htm   (2819 words)

  
 Nat' Academies Press, Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction: Where Real Science Ends...and Pseudoscience Begins (2001)
To understand what's wrong with pseudoscience, we'll first examine what's right about real science, and then be in a position to compare science's approach to reality with that of pseudoscience.
We'll learn that science's most basic value is that all ideas about reality are subject to both testing by experiment and challenge by critical rational thought.
and Pseudoscience Begins Instead of deciding that their evidence did not support a belief in an alien spaceship, these people decided that they didn't need physical evidence.
http://www.nap.edu/books/030907309X/html/R1.html   (2187 words)

  
 Right-Brain/Left-Brain - Science or Pseudoscience?
They all dichotomize differences in a way the research does not permit, and promote right-brain/left-brain pseudoscience that the researchers oppose.
But there is no support from brain research.
While each hemisphere may specialize in certain activities, the only clear-cut function which only one side has is related to speaking.
http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Psychology/brain.htm   (989 words)

  
 Odds Are Stacked When Science Tries to Debate Pseudoscience
But I thought if I kept my focus purely on the physics challenges involved in space travel, I might be able to persuade some listeners to be skeptical of the claims that aliens were regularly visiting, abducting and experimenting with our fellow earthlings.
Odds Are Stacked When Science Tries to Debate Pseudoscience
In a debate that confronts the results of science with pseudoscience, from alien abductions and crop circles on one hand to the health benefits of weak magnetic fields or young earth creationism on the other, the odds are stacked against science.
http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/30/science/30ESSA.html&OQ=_rQ3D3Q26orefQ3DsloginQ26orefQ3Dslogin&OP=2440cf75Q2FQ3AQ2AaQ7EQ3AP1JmC11Q5EOQ3AOXXOQ3AXQ7BQ3A)XQ3AmJEapJaQ3A)XhQ23Q23tQ5DSQ5EW8   (1091 words)

  
 Pseudoscience in Mapping Human History
Pseudoscience is generally encountered in works designed to promote non-scientific purposes, as for example, the sale of nonprescription drugs or dietary supplements.
Pseudoscience is the use of the scientific method to mislead.
Evolutionary biologists often encounter pseudoscience in the literature of “creationism,” which is designed to advance a peculiar religious dogma.
http://www.cofc.edu/~dillonr/Olson.html   (677 words)

  
 Pseudoscience
Finally, I look at what skepticism should mean in science and what, too often, it actually does mean.
Pseudoscience is a term often used by those describing themselves as skeptics and attacking those who investigate new and anomalous phenomena.
This first kind of pseudoscience, the most common kind, is harmless, because it is in the nature of scientific debate that bad science is driven out by good.
http://www.alternativescience.com/pseudoscience.htm   (374 words)

  
 Pseudoscience and quackery in Psychology
Although some psychologists believe that the subject is worth further study, the existing research is almost uniformly inconclusive or negative.
Phrenology is the study of the structure of the skull to determine a person's character and mental capacity.
This pseudoscience is based upon the false assumption that mental faculties are located in brain "organs" on the surface of the brain and can be detected by visible inspection of the skull.
http://www.psychology.org/links/Resources/Pseudoscience   (769 words)

  
 Scientology link to public schools / As early as the third grade, students in S.F. and elsewhere are subtly introduced ...
Igor Grant, professor of psychiatry and director of the Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at UC San Diego, agreed: "I'm not aware of any data that show that going into a sauna detoxifies you from toxins of any kind.
A popular anti-drug program provided free to schools in San Francisco and elsewhere teaches concepts straight out of the Church of Scientology, including medical theories that some addiction experts described as "irresponsible" and "pseudoscience."
Students are told that sweating through exercise or sauna rids the body of these "poisons." And, some teachers said, the speakers tell students that the drug residues produce a colored ooze when exiting the body.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/06/09/MNGO572ISD1.DTL   (4208 words)

  
 HOJ: Pseudoscience
There are those that embrace pseudoscience as a form of "alternative" science or even "innovative." For these people, belief in that which gives hope and answers their questions takes precedence over skepticism and critical thinking.
Pseudoscience will always abandon science and scientific method if science fails to support the pseudoscience notion.
Indeed, "skepticism" is viewed as a position of to be scorned by pseudoscience followers and proponents.
http://home.earthlink.net/~ctfeagans/pseudoscience.htm   (413 words)

  
 Chiropractic: NCAHF Fact Sheet (1998)
It must be noted that MDs are not required to refer patients to DCs and that referring physicians assume some risk for harm that comes to patients at the hands of practitioners to whom they were referred, particularly if there was reason to fear that the practitioner uses unscientific practices.
Since some DCs reject cultism and pseudoscience, DCs must be evaluated on an individual basis.
http://www.ncahf.org/articles/c-d/chiro.html   (4598 words)

  
 Pseudoscience/Paranormal/Skepticism Home Page for PHY105
"A History of Facilitated Communication: Science, Pseudoscience, and Antiscience: Science Working Group on Facilitated Communication" by John W. Jacobson, James A. Mulick, and Allen A. Schwartz (American Psychologist 1995, Vol.
Hands that Heal: The Art of Therapeutic Touch
"Science or Pseudoscience?" Pentagon Grant Funds Alternative Health Study (in order to study the "laying over of hands," or "The Effect of Therapeutic Touch on Pain and Infection in Burn Patients"), Skeptical Inquirer (July/August 1996, vol.
http://physics.syr.edu/courses/modules/PSEUDO/pseudo_main.html   (2015 words)

  
 pseudoscience
Some pseudoscientific theories are based upon an authoritative text rather than observation or empirical investigation.
A pseudoscience is set of ideas based on theories put forth as scientific when they are not scientific.
"Winning Through Pseudoscience," in Philosophy of Science and the Occult, edited by Patrick Grim.
http://www.skepdic.com/pseudosc.html   (766 words)

  
 Skeptic News: Pseudoscience
However, such a conclusion should be reached with a full realization of what a critical examination of the science tells us.
This is a classic for those wanting an introduction to some of the basic topics tackled by skeptics.
Another classic for new skeptics, this one focusing more on pseudoscience than on the paranormal.
http://www.skepticnews.com/pseudoscience   (1753 words)

  
 ABC-CLIO
A thorough, objective, and balanced analysis of the most prominent controversies made in the name of science—from the effectiveness of proposed medical treatments to the reality of supernatural claims.
The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience is one of those sets in which the fascination value may equal its reference use...
Online Catalog > The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience
http://www.abc-clio.com/products/overview.aspx?productid=108860   (132 words)

  
 Donald Simanek's Pages; science, pseudoscience, education, humor.
The Back Page for Science Fraud, Medicine, Psychiatric Pseudoscience, Futurology, Flat and Hollow Earth, and other subjects.
We can't claim to fully understand what science is until we know what it is not.
Warp your mind with our book of science humor!
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek   (252 words)

  
 A brief history of American pseudoscience
Center for the Study of Science and Medicine, warns against careless use of that term.
pseudoscience," though David Rothman, professor of history and of social medicine and director of Columbia's
Ectoplasm was a mysterious substance said to emanate from the bodies of mediums during seances.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-3.4/macdougall.html   (1173 words)

  
 Why is Pseudoscience Dangerous?
One would think it is not necessary to explain what a life of paradise it would be for pseudoscience if this "dogma" were abolished.
If this happens, we will be able to observe the cleansing of science of filth and the ignominious flight of pseudoscience.
Thus, pseudoscience predicts the complete collapse of science if it does not change the scientific paradigm.
http://humanism.al.ru/en/articles.phtml?num=000024   (2583 words)

  
 What is pseudoscience?
There is little evidence of this in the pseudosciences.
Pseudosciences are more likely to be driven by ideological, cultural, or commercial goals.
The primary goal of science is to achieve a more complete and more unified understanding of the physical world.
http://www.chem1.com/acad/sci/pseudosci.html   (2823 words)

  
 pseudoscience. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002
For example, astronomy is a science, but astrology is generally viewed as a pseudoscience.
http://www.bartleby.com/59/17/pseudoscienc.html   (133 words)

  
 Science and Pseudoscience
Science and Pseudoscience is Lakatos's most succinct public summary of his philosophy of science.
It reviews what he saw as the inadequacies of previous attempted solutions, such as both probative and probabilist inductivism, and how his own methodology of scientific research programmes solves some of the problems posed by the history of science for those of Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn.
You are here - Welcome to LSE > Lakatos > Science and Pseudoscience
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/lakatos/scienceAndPseudoscience.htm   (621 words)

  
 Pseudoscience
A pseudoscience is set of ideas based on
http://home.comcast.net/~moeur/BadScience/pseudoscience.htm   (151 words)

  
 Technorati Tag: pseudoscience
Another in his outstanding series on Quackery and Pseudoscience A Photon in the Darkness: A Field Guide to Quackery...
A tag is like a subject or category.
A Photon in the Darkness: A Field Guide to Qu...
http://technorati.com/tag/pseudoscience   (483 words)

  
 Pseudoscience
Trepanation is the ancient practice of drilling a 10mm hole in the skull, either to release demons (ancient justification) or to reduce pressure and improve blood flow (modern pseudoscientific justification).
Information associated with my Induction Week lecture "Psychology, Superstition and Psudoscience"
Also note that University regulations forbid the use of UCLAN equipment to observe or circulate such material.
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/science/psychol/bully/pseudo.htm   (1416 words)

  
 Science, pseudoscience, and religion
A humorous page from a physicist relating his encounters with crank science, and giving a good tutuorial as to how sciences is really done.
Links to discussions of science, pseudoscience, and issues regarding science and faith...
While Urban Legends are generally not associated with pseudoscience, the lack of critical evaluation that goes with their propagation is.
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~korista/sci-pseudo-rel.html   (1122 words)

  
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Crackpot science, sometimes called pseudoscience or “Cargo Cult” science, has a long and colorful history, and there’s a lot of it out there.
This causes the water molecule cluster to disassociate…”
I’m not even going to get started on the tachyon crystals, facilitated communicators, modern day Mesmerizers, homeopathic healers, young-earthers, Laundry Balls, and the like.
http://www.sniggle.net/science.php   (1572 words)

  
 The Telson Spur: Field Nodes -- Paths (8): Pseudoscience (1)
To believe, in the guise of religious faith, what is, on scientific or philosophical grounds, factually untrue is to be supersitious.
KEYWORDS: antiscience; belief; cognitive dissonance; gullibility; ideological pathology; ignorance; intellectual deceit; misology; oncomeme; pseudoscience; stupidity
The coordinate pages, with a common header and List of Contents, contain links to other resources for the study of malignant belief systems, or oncomemes (Hate, Anger, and Intolerance), and to resources for the study and practice of Religion.
http://www.snark.ca/pseudo.htm   (1392 words)

  
 John Derbyshire on Snobbery and Doonesbury on National Review Online
It seems to me, in fact, to be pseudoscience, and does not agree with my understanding, such as it is, either of the physical world or of the Deity.
Now, I can’t say I have any emotional investment in this topic one way or the other.
The main anti-Darwinian hypothesis, as I understand it, asserts that all the currently observable species of animals, plants, bacteria, and (presumably) viruses, together with some that are now extinct, were created in their known forms at more or less the same time.
http://www.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire042203.asp   (1914 words)

  
 Psychiatry is a Pseudoscience
A Sample of Experts Who Have Spoken Out Against Psychiatric Pseudoscience and/or the Dangers of Psychiatric Drugs
What Experts Have to Say - A sample of experts who have spoken out against psychiatric pseudoscience and/or the dangers of psychiatric drugs.
Tom Cruise Speaks Out - CCHR's press release.
http://www.cchr.org/index.cfm/7352   (423 words)

  
 Science, PseudoScience and Society
Collection of links and documents on Biology, Health, Medicine and Pseudoscience.
The scientific community is generally held together and all its affairs are peacefully managed through its joint acceptance of the same fundamental scientific beliefs.
One of the most dangerous is those deception schemes use by pseudoscience is one that trades the independence for political influence, the power grab.
http://www.softpanorama.org/Skeptics/index.shtml   (14524 words)

  
 Category:Pseudoscience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term itself is contested by a number of different groups for a number of different reasons — see the main article for more information.
The main article for this category is Pseudoscience.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pseudoscience   (163 words)

  
 Donald Simanek's Pages of Skepticism
There's a rich mix of credulous pseudoscience and new-age claptrap here, along with skeptical, rational and scientific analyses of it.
The web has many sites devoted to pseudoscience and paranomral phenomena.
Some materials linked here might be classed as borderline or speculative science.
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/skeptic.htm   (514 words)

  
 Quackwatch
Why Science Needs to Combat Pseudoscience (posted 12/13/98)
http://www.quackwatch.org   (1281 words)

  
 Melanin Properties - Afrocentrism and Pseudoscience (Skeptical Inquirer Spring 1992)
As the theoreticians behind the Portland Baseline Essays, they can increase scientific illiteracy among those poor urban children who are most in need of better science teaching.
These children do not need pseudoscience traveling under the guise of multiculturalism.
Ortiz de Montellano, B. Multicultural pseudoscience: Spreading scientific illiteracy among minorities -.Part I. SKEPTICAL INQUIRER, 16, 46-50, Fall.
http://www.csicop.org/si/9201/minority.html   (2128 words)

  
 Skepticism and Pseudoscience
One of the most difficult things for a science teacher to deal with is the heavy dose of pseudoscience and sloppy reasoning which pervades the popular culture.
This resource is set up to help teachers in responding to this charlatanism.
Equipment and internet connection provided through the HPCC/ESS Project at the University of Washington, George Lake, P.I.
http://newton.physics.wwu.edu:8082/jstewart/scied/skeptic.html   (472 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience And Lynyrd Skynyrd - Solo Flytes
An A-to-Z reference to fringe sciences provides more than 2,000 cross-referenced entries to consider how they contributed to such disciplines as chemistry, astronomy, and acupuncture, also noting popularly believed hoaxes.
Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience And Lynyrd Skynyrd - Solo Flytes
http://www.advancedmovers.net/pseudoscience.htm   (48 words)

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