Pseudoscience

Why I Now Believe Parapsychology Is A Science Not A Pseudoscience – The Skeptic
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Poor James Randi is rolling over in his grave because of Chris French’s revelation. Not because of being more accepting of forteana and anomalistics, but actually looking at the data. Even if it runs counter to conventional wisdom. But does this make hiim a believer? That’s for Chris to tell. Continuing with this theme, Harry […]

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The Difference Between Science and Pseudoscience When It Comes to UFOs – Interesting Engineering
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The Difference Between Science and Pseudoscience When It Comes to UFOs  Interesting Engineering In 1995, astrophysicist Carl Sagan published the book, “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.” It was Sagan’s attempt to separate …

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More than 200 academics sign open letter accusing Cambridge don of publishing ‘racist pseudoscience’
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Dr Noah Carl (pictured) has previously argued in support of eugenics and claimed that opposition to immigration can be based on ‘rational beliefs’.

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Ben Franklin's Guide to Spotting Pseudoscience – Bloomberg View
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This piece is like a breath of fresh air, which is really saying something when you consider we’re going back in time about 250 years. Nothing moldy about how Ben Franklin approached scientific study, nor about how he dismissed any popular bupkiss that was directed his way. The point was–and is– that anyone calling themselves […]

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All Your Axioms Are Postulates: Pseudoscience Vs. Pseudometaphysics – EsoterX
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Staunch positivists insist any inquiry into the paranormal, or fortean, is a fool’s errand. Any attempt to apply scientific methodology isn’t science, but pseudoscience. Now’s the time to turn the tables on these fedora-tipping, euphoric neckbeards with a man-crush on Neil deGrasse Tyson. If you didn’t believe EsoterX’s previous warning of deconstructing your ontology, you’d […]

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Is A Popular Theory Of Cosmic Creation Pseudoscience? – Scientific American
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Popular is an understatement, as many scientists refuse to acknowledge any other model beyond Georges Lemaître’s baby. The elephant in the room, or the universe, is physicists and John Horgan are unable to falsify the model. If that’s the case then Daniel Engber argues Science Is Broken. Rather than throw the baby out with the […]

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Cryptozoology : Science or pseudoscience
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People who are cryptozoologists are in the news looking for Yeti, Bigfoot, Ogopogo, Loch Ness Monster, Sasquatch, Thunderbirds, and Mokele-mbembe to name a few. Champ the lake monster that lives in Lake Champlain is sighted from time to time. But the …

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Navigating through pseudoscience and big data
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A NEW discovery (for me at least) is that JSE data are freely available from www.google.com/finance, though not from finance.yahoo.com. My bias for Yahoo's financial data service comes from a couple of free online university courses — University of …

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Planet X | Pseudoscience – Ram Pages
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All articles have stated observations that both Neptune and Uranus' orbits seem to show evidence of another planet's gravitational pull; however, both Planet X: Going Going and Shadow Planet point out that the observations …

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The IPCC, UFOs & Pseudoscience – Men's News Daily
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The IPCC, UFOs & PseudoscienceMen’s News Dailyseen many UFOs from the deck of her New Mexico property. “I've seen a mothership here, and I've seen them at my ranch,” she says. “One famous day, a friend of mine was sitting in my hot tub out there, and three UFOs came over and hovered over the […]

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