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| | Steve's place - Pseudoscience |
 | | However, freeing a pseudoscience from such encumbrances is generally not welcomed by its practitioners: heaven forbid one should glean a scrap of useful science out of the pseudoscience. | | | Although not true pseudosciences, bad and pathological science help explain pseudoscience's origins and its appeal. | | | And never forget that science today is just the current set of 'best answers', not the final product, as most pseudosciences will claim. |
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| | Distinguishing Science and Pseudoscience |
| | Pseudoscience books offer examples of almost every kind of fallacy of logic and reason known to scholars and have invented some new ones of their own. | | | The rejection came from the established religion which favored the pseudoscience that Galileo's findings contradicted. | | | Generally earns some or all of his living by selling questionable products (such as books, courses, and dietary supplements) and/or pseudoscientific services (such as horoscopes, character readings, spirit messages, and predictions). |
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http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/pseudo.html
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| | Science and Pseudoscience (transcript) |
| | Copernicus's theory was banned by the Catholic Church in 1616 because it was said to be pseudoscientific. | | | Theories unproven from facts were regarded as sinful pseudoscience, heresy in the scientific community. | | | The Catholic Church excommunicated Copernicans, the Communist Party persecuted Mendelians on the ground that their doctrines were pseudoscientific. |
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http://lse.ac.uk/collections/lakatos/scienceAndPseudoscienceTranscript.htm
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| | What is pseudoscience? |
| | Using pseudoscience as a teaching aid - by Faculty of Mt. St. | | | The primary goal of science is to achieve a more complete and more unified understanding of the physical world. | | | Not a simple question to answer, but this excellent page at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy will help show you the way. |
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http://www.chem1.com/acad/sci/pseudosci.html
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| | 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. | | | I am not a big fan of pseudoscience, either, though, and will do what little I can to stand up for real science, where I am confident I understand it. | | | Invited to choose between having my kids educated, my car fixed, or my elderly relatives cared for by (a) people of character, spirit, and dedication who believe in pseudoscience, or (b) unionized, time-serving drudges who believe in real science, which would I choose? |
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| | Pseudoscience - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Pseudoscience is distinguishable from revelation, theology, or spirituality in that it claims to offer insight into the physical world by "scientific" means. | | | There are also bodies of practical knowledge that are not claimed to be scientific. | | | Systems of thought that rely upon "divine" or "inspired" knowledge are not considered pseudoscience if they do not claim either to be scientific or to overturn well-established science. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience
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| | Pseudoscience |
| | Based on pseudoscience, many dishonest beliefs have derived, supposing that the reality relies on one's perception, not on the observation and experimentation matters. | | | We should understand that the Jewish scribes wrote the Bible (Old Testament) until around 500 BC, during the Babilonian postexilic period; up to that time, there was no Bible. | | | Pseudoscience is any scheme of assertions, beliefs and methods, wrongly considered as scientific. |
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http://www.biocab.org/Pseudoscience.html
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| | Skeptical Inquirer: What does education really do? Educational dimensions and pseudoscience support in the American ... |
| | Goode (2002), for example, identifies traditional religiosity as influencing susceptibility to Biblical creationism appeals; most American researchers also report finding that women or those less educated are more traditionally religious. | | | It identifies more precisely just which aspects of education influence pseudoscience beliefs. | | | Pseudoscience belief may be affected by these related factors as well as by pedagogical experiences. |
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http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2843/is_5_27/ai_108114811
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| | 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. | | | 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. | | | KEYWORDS: antiscience; belief; cognitive dissonance; gullibility; ideological pathology; ignorance; intellectual deceit; misology; oncomeme; pseudoscience; stupidity |
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| | Right-Brain/Left-Brain - Science or Pseudoscience? |
| | This has followed in the wake of the first flush of false teaching generated by incomplete findings having to do with persons with brain damage, have then embraced the implications, labeled them science, and brought them into the church. | | | James Dobson's Gospel of Self-Esteem and Psychology) and PsychoHeresy Update (Spring 1989) (now renamed PsychoHeresy Awareness Letter). | | | - Many Christians believe in the right-brain/left-brain pseudoscience. |
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| | Scientology link to public schools / As early as the third grade, students in S.F. and elsewhere are subtly introduced ... |
| | Narconon officials are adamant that Narconon is secular and that a firewall exists between it and the Church of Scientology, and San Francisco school health officials say they know of no church-state problem with Narconon or of any pseudoscience taught. | | | But a close look reveals a crossover of church language, materials, concepts, personnel and some finances, leading to accusations that Scientology has slipped into public classrooms. | | | 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." |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/06/09/MNGO572ISD1.DTL
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| | How to Sell a Pseudoscience |
| | This is the ultimate "holy cow" question: "Why kill yourself and your children on another's command?" From outside the cult I it appears strange, but from the inside it seems natural. | | | Pseudosciences use the word "science" in a contradictory manner. | | | This is a dramatic example, but not all belief in pseudoscience is so extreme. |
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| | Pseudoscience - EvoWiki |
| | Many of them are related to the style of presentation and features of the presenters, meaning that they can be interpreted as ad hominem arguments. | | | Sir Karl Popper distinguished real science from pseudoscience by claiming that pseudoscientific theories cannot be falsified. | | | 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. |
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http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/Pseudoscience
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| | A brief history of American pseudoscience |
| | The most common label for these kinds of practices and beliefs is " | | | Ectoplasm was a mysterious substance said to emanate from the bodies of mediums during seances. | | | Knowledge advances, opinions change, and one era's respected beliefs become the pseudoscience of the next. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-3.4/macdougall.html
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| | Pseudoscience and Other Wackos |
| | Note: Please do not email me about the content of these pages. | | | What do they do when they find fossils? | | | I don't agree with them, which should be obvious since I titled my page "Pseudoscience and Other Wackos." However, if you find any pages which you feel are worthy to be on this list, please email me at |
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http://www.astro.lsa.umich.edu/users/rstanek/psci.html
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| | Pseudoscience |
| | Ontario PseudoScience Centre - Pierre Savoie - (2) - 3/15/03 10:16 am | | | A Tidy Article about Pseudoscience - Timothy Campbell - (5) - 9/25/03 1:40 am |
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http://p086.ezboard.com/fcanadianskepticsforumfrm8?page=2
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| | HOJ: Pseudoscience |
| | In it's stead, we'll find the supernatural and the metaphysical. | | | 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 is a voice that easily takes in the unsuspecting with language that is meant to sound scientific -this is because science and the methods of science ring of truth. |
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| | Pseudoscience & Pseudomedicine |
| | A skeptical look at auras, Kirlian photography, reincarnation, spiritualism, astral projection, and astrology. | | | A how-to guide for examining claims and debunking myths, math abuse, and misleading arguments. | | | An organization devoted to promoting the use of science and rational thinking in viewing the world. |
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http://www.medlina.com/parascience_&_pseudoscience.htm
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| | Science, pseudoscience, and religion |
| | The Fallacy Files - lots of good stuff here describing fallacies in logic and argument | | | Links to discussions of science, pseudoscience, and issues regarding science and faith... | | | A humorous page from a physicist relating his encounters with crank science, and giving a good tutuorial as to how sciences is really done. |
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http://homepages.wmich.edu/~korista/sci-pseudo-rel.html
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| | Pseudoscience |
| | 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. | | | Pseudoscience is a term often used by those describing themselves as skeptics and attacking those who investigate new and anomalous phenomena. | | | This kind of pseudoscience usually involves statements and arguments that employ scientific language and sound as if they are scientifically based but actually are no more than opinions disguised as fact. |
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| | The Demise of Pseudoscience |
| | Accordingly, scholars have identified pseudoscience by either its practitioners, its theories, or its methods. | | | Not all psychologists who diagnose pseudoscience rely solely on Popper’s falsifiability criterion. | | | Pseudoscience is like pornography: we cannot define it, but we know it when we see it. |
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| | The Sources of Pseudoscience |
| | Such pseudoscience is widespread throughout the entire world. | | | The ideologization of science is a very terrible thing, that is, a strong and constant source of pseudoscience. | | | But the effectiveness of such a battle, judging from everything, is not very great. |
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http://humanism.al.ru/en/articles.phtml?num=000006
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| | Pseudoscience in Mapping Human History |
| | 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. | | | But notice that a statement need not be true to be scientific. |
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| | 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. | | | Pseudoscience not only robs people of their money, it interferes with their chance to become more scientifically literate. | | | Simplistic solutions are offered in place of carefully-conducted scientific studies and those who want to believe in these simple solutions are often relieved of their hard-earned money. |
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http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/03/recognizing-pseudoscience.html
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| | Why is Pseudoscience Dangerous? |
| | I would say more: the bureaucracy which represents the highest bodies of power in the country is staring to join pseudoscience. | | | One would think it is not necessary to explain what a life of paradise it would be for pseudoscience if this "dogma" were abolished. | | | Naturally, peaceful coexistence between science and pseudoscience is impossible. |
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http://humanism.al.ru/en/articles.phtml?num=000024
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| | Thought Field Therapy: A Critical Analysis (Skeptical Inquirer, July 2000) |
| | Traditional medicine and pseudoscience in China: A report of the second CSICOP delegation (part 1). | | | Traditional medicine and pseudoscience in China: A report of the second CSICOP delegation (part 2). | | | In general, pseudoscience can be identified as consisting of "claims presented so that they appear scientific even though they lack supporting evidence and plausibility" (Shermer 1997, 33). |
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http://www.csicop.org/si/2000-07/thought-field-therapy.html
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| | pseudoscience |
| | A pseudoscience is set of ideas based on theories put forth as scientific when they are not scientific. | | | Distinguishing Science from Pseudoscience by Barry L. Beyerstein | | | Some pseudoscientific theories are based upon an authoritative text rather than observation or empirical investigation. |
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| | Science and Pseudoscience |
| | You are here - Welcome to LSE > Lakatos > Science and Pseudoscience | | | Science and Pseudoscience is Lakatos's most succinct public summary of his philosophy of science. | | | A Hungarian language version of the talk was broadcast by the BBC Hungarian World Service on 10th February 1974, eight days after Lakatos died on 2 February. |
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http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/lakatos/scienceAndPseudoscience.htm
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| | Revolutionary New Insoles Combine Five Forms of Pseudoscience | | | 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…” |
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| | Technorati Tag: pseudoscience |
| | Posts tagged Pseudoscience per day for the last 30 days. | | | Research Pseudoscience at Questia Research and discover over 1,000,000 books, journals and articles covering over 6,000 research topics, continuously updated - a complete academic library. | | | Another in his outstanding series on Quackery and Pseudoscience A Photon in the Darkness: A Field Guide to Quackery... |
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| | 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. |
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| | Pseudoscience and quackery in Psychology |
| | How to distinguish between pseudoscience and real science. | | | Although some psychologists believe that the subject is worth further study, the existing research is almost uniformly inconclusive or negative. | | | Questions to help distinguish a pseudoscience from a protoscience |
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http://www.psychology.org/links/Resources/Pseudoscience
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| | 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). | | | This page provides a bit of background and some links to the sites that have inspired my interest in Pseudoscience. | | | Here is the answer to the Probability Question from the Pseudoscience lecture. |
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| | Guru's Lair: Pseudoscience web links |
| | Hot linked listing of all the major pseudoscience players then and | | | Also visit our Pseudoscience Library shelf and our Pseudoscience Books. | | | Plus big time access to off-the-wall pseudoscience and weird science. |
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| | Melanin Properties - Afrocentrism and Pseudoscience (Skeptical Inquirer Spring 1992) |
| | These children do not need pseudoscience traveling under the guise of multiculturalism. | | | 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. | | | Lecture at the 1st Annual Melanin Conference, San Francisco, 1987; broadcast titled "African World View," WDTR 90.9 FM, June 27. |
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| | 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. |
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| | Skeptic News: Pseudoscience |
| | This is a classic for those wanting an introduction to some of the basic topics tackled by skeptics. | | | However, such a conclusion should be reached with a full realization of what a critical examination of the science tells us. | | | The Global Consciousness Project apparently is trying to use random number generators to detect changes in the the "global consciousness" of the population of the planet. |
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| | 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. |
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| | 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. |
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| | Pseudoscience |
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| | Donald Simanek's Pages; science, pseudoscience, education, humor. |
| | 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! | | | The Back Page for Science Fraud, Medicine, Psychiatric Pseudoscience, Futurology, Flat and Hollow Earth, and other subjects. |
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| | Pseudoscience, etc. |
| | I copied the Exodus verse out of the bible because "Nothing on this website may be reprinted in whole or in part without obtaining permission from ICR." I figure God will be more forgiving and not sue me. | | | I think he'll believe, or at least pretend to believe, pretty much anything. | | | Art Bell Official Web Site - Art has got to be the all time king of pseudoscience. |
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| | 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. |
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| | Science, PseudoScience and Society |
| | 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. | | | Collection of links and documents on Biology, Health, Medicine and Pseudoscience. |
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| | Quackwatch |
| | Why Science Needs to Combat Pseudoscience (posted 12/13/98) |
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