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Psychologists Terence Hines in his book Pseudoscience and the Paranormal wrote: happy on the other side.Terence Hines, Pseudoscience and the Paranormal (Prometheus ...

phrenology was not merely an amusing pseudoscience, that was an overextension ... Phrenology has long been dismissed as a pseudoscience, in the wake ...

field is regarded by some critics as a pseudoscience. Parapsychologists, in ... is often accused of being pseudoscience. Skeptical scholars like ...

is no distinction between genuine science and pseudoscience. But there is no longer any philosophically, logically, or methodologically rigorous basis ...

*Shermer, Michael. Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time. New York: W.H. Freeman, 1997 ...

other types have been criticized as pseudoscience. There are hundreds ... other types have been criticized as pseudoscience. Stephen Hupp and ...

Critics generally consider astrology to be a pseudoscience or superstition ... astrology is generally labeled as a pseudoscience and it has been criticized ...

of his own and developed geopolitics into a pseudoscience. He argued that oceanic countries would have to grant lebensraum (living space) to the newer ...

*Singer, Margaret T. (Contributor, 2004). Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology: New Age Therapies. 176-205. ISBN 1593850700 ...

psychological distress were based on [[Pseudoscience|pseudo-scientific]] ideas ... and Jeffrey M. Lohr (eds.). Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology ...

between (good or true) science and pseudoscience—a distinction that ... belief that what elevated science over pseudoscience was the "scientific ...

he had in effect created a new pseudoscience of forensic phrenology. For example, he and his collaborators were the first ever to describe and ...

Pseudoscience debunker Bob Park said, "The polygraph, in fact ... * Pseudoscience ==Notes== == References == * Alder, Ken. 2007. The ...

his Ubu Roi plays; in addition he invented a pseudoscience called Pataphysics. ==Biography== ===Early years=== Alfred Jarry was born in Laval ...

of the things that distinguish science from pseudoscience. It is easy to come up with a theory about nature, hard to come up with a scientific theory ...

(tr). Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 2004. ISBN 0801878675 *Edge, Hoyt L., et. al. ...

Some modalities used in naturopathy are widely regarded as pseudoscience. Medical doctors often cite the large differences between naturopathic ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology In psychology, motivation refers to the initiation, direction, intensity, and persistence ...

immoral and is based on, or is itself, pseudoscience. Historically, eugenics ... , eugenics has often been deemed a pseudoscience. The most disputed aspect ...

in favor of scientific skepticism and against pseudoscience. On the other hand, he provoked unease that the public would understand some of his personal ...

example in the context of whether it is a pseudoscience: ... * Smith, Jonathan C. Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the ...

* Pseudoscience * Pseudoskepticism * Scientistic materialism * Technologism * Techno-utopianism Philosophy|Socrates.png ==Notes== 2 ...

articles on subjects like crime and pseudoscience. ===Support for Spanish-American War=== Hearst used his paper to fight tenaciously to liberate ...

Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, Other Pseudoscience. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins ... of Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, Other Pseudoscience by Freeman J. Dyson, ...

scientists regard psychoanalysis as a pseudoscience (Cioffi, 1998). ... * Cioffi, F. Freud and the Question of Pseudoscience. Open Court Publishing ...

that most scientific approaches are actually pseudoscience, and have little to no scientific merit. ===Anecdotal approach=== [[Image:Fort_charles_1920 ...

Atlantis (Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος , "Island of Atlas") is a mythical island nation first mentioned and described by the ...

Kenneth L. Feder, Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience ... Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology. Oxford ...

those who intentionally rely on pseudoscience masquerading as empirical skepticism, are sometimes called pseudoskeptics or pathological skeptics. ...

Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology. 5th ed. New York, NY: McGraw Hill. ISBN 9780073405292 * Gimbutas, Marija ...

of real science, but which are nonetheless pseudoscience and unworthy of either respect or support.Feynman, 338-346. ==Notes== ==References== ...

in all its forms, especially "pseudoscience" in the service of racism and sexism. In the early 1970s, Gould joined a group called ...

and non-Christian, who consider it a form of pseudoscience. Ian Plimer, Telling Lies for God: Reason versus creationism (Random House, 1994, ISBN ...

and Egyptologists as a form of pseudoscience,Mark Lehner, The Complete Pyramids – Solving the Ancient Mysteries (London: Thames & Hudson ...

The field is regarded by critics as a pseudoscience. Parapsychologists, in turn, say that parapsychological research is scientifically rigorous ...

history (sometimes it is an equivalent of pseudoscience) Methods and tools *Contemporaneous corroboration: A method historians use to establish ...

science. Most critics still consider Ufology a pseudoscience or a protoscience. Some argue this rejection by mainstream science is part of the problem: ...

and relationships are often dismissed as pseudoscience, reliance on the placebo effect, or even outright fraud. == Current Research == ...

and distanced himself from nearly all pseudoscience he continued to advocate research into psychokinesis and similar phenomena. === Last years === ...

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic, and is considered ...

The field is regarded by some critics as a pseudoscience. Parapsychologists, in turn, say that parapsychological research is scientifically rigorous ...

to skeptically view TCM as archaic pseudoscience and superstition. This skepticism can come from a number of sources. For one, TCM in the West ...

Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992, (ˈaɪzək ˈæzɪˌmɑv) , originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian ...

has the semblance of science but is only pseudoscience due to a lack of "a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that ...

* Cioffi, Frank. Freud and the Question of Pseudoscience. Chicago and La Salle: Open Court, 1999. ISBN 978-0812693850. * Deleuze, Gilles, and ...

Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла) (July 10, 1856 – January 7, 1943) was a world-renowned Serbian-American inventor, ...