Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet PSEUDOSCIENCE

Definition av PSEUDOSCIENCE

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• Unlike modern medicine, which employs the scientific method to test plausible therapies by way of responsible and ethical clinical trials, producing repeatable evidence of either effect or of no effect, alternative therapies reside outside of mainstream medicine and do not originate from using the scientific method, but instead rely on testimonials, anecdotes, religion, tradition, superstition, belief in supernatural "energies", pseudoscience, errors in reasoning, propaganda, fraud, or other unscientific sources.
• Though proponents claim to present their ideas in a manner that is verifiable by rational discourse and say that they seek precision and clarity comparable to that obtained by scientists investigating the physical world, many of these ideas have been termed pseudoscientific by experts in epistemology and debunkers of pseudoscience.
• Enthusiasts of Bigfoot, such as those within the pseudoscience of cryptozoology, have offered various forms of dubious evidence to prove Bigfoot's existence, including anecdotal claims of sightings as well as alleged photographs, video and audio recordings, hair samples, and casts of large footprints.
• Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience and subculture that searches for and studies unknown, legendary, or extinct animals whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated, particularly those popular in folklore, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, Yeti, the chupacabra, the Jersey Devil, or the Mokele-mbembe.
• Jasmuheen (born Ellen Greve; 1957) is a proponent of "pranic nourishment" or breatharianism, the practice of claiming to live without food or fluid of any sort and regarded by the scientific community as a lethal pseudoscience.
• Philosophers use protoscience to understand the history of science and distinguish protoscience from science and pseudoscience.
• pseudoscience, amateur science, deviant or fraudulent science, bad science, junk science, pathological science, cargo cult science, and voodoo science.
• There is no good evidence that telepathy exists, and the topic is generally considered by the scientific community to be pseudoscience.
• He was a proponent of intelligent design (ID) pseudoscience, specifically the concept of specified complexity, and was a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture (CSC).
• The notion of wearing homemade headgear for such protection has become a popular stereotype and byword for paranoia, persecutory delusions, and belief in pseudoscience and conspiracy theories.
• While the hypothesis has some popularity with the lay public, it is generally ignored or classified as pseudoscience by anthropologists.
• It has been variously classified as a self-religion, a new religious movement, and a cult, and has been criticised as pseudoscience.
• Reiki is used as an illustrative example of pseudoscience in scholarly texts and academic journal articles.
• Published five years after Dawkins's previous book Unweaving the Rainbow, it contains essays covering subjects including pseudoscience, genetic determinism, memetics, terrorism, religion and creationism.
• The scientific consensus is that astrology is a pseudoscience and has consistently failed experimental and theoretical verification.
• Feng shui has been identified as both non-scientific and pseudoscientific by scientists and philosophers, and it has been described as a paradigmatic example of pseudoscience.
• The ideas put forth in his books are rejected by virtually all scientists and academics, who categorize his work as pseudohistory, pseudoarchaeology, and pseudoscience.
• Torsion field (pseudoscience), a field alleged to make faster-than-light communication and paranormal phenomena possible.
• With John Grinder, he founded the neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) approach to psychotherapy in the 1970s, which is considered pseudoscience.
• Physiognomy as a practice meets the contemporary definition of pseudoscience and is regarded as such by academics because of its unsupported claims; popular belief in the practice of physiognomy is nonetheless still widespread and modern advances in artificial intelligence have sparked renewed interest in the field of study.

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