Cults of Unreason is a non-fiction book on atypical belief systems, written by Christopher Riche Evans, who was a noted computer scientist and an experimental...

Christopher (1973). Cults of Unreason (hardcover ed.). London: Harrap. ISBN 978-0-245-51870-6. Evans, Christopher (1974). Cults of Unreason (paperback ed.)...

occur. It is seen as an example of synchronicity, as well as a favorable sign or a suggestion towards the presence of spiritual influence. It is additionally...

television personality, museum operator, and author. He is the principal host of the Travel Channel series Ghost Adventures. Bagans was born in Washington...

power, fame, or other advantages through pretense or deception. One example of a charlatan appears in the Canterbury Tales story "The Pardoner's Tale," with...

Like EMDR, practitioners of this technique use a pointer to direct a client’s eye gaze. Brainspotting has been listed as one of the Trauma Power Therapies...

skeptics denouncing its practices as pseudoscientific, and allegations of abuse, cult-like behavior, and exploitation have surfaced over the years. After...

four-letter test result representing one of sixteen possible types, such as "INFP" or "ESTJ". The perceived accuracy of test results relies on the Barnum effect...

Palmistry is the pseudoscientific practice of fortune-telling through the study of the palm. Also known as palm reading, chiromancy, chirology or cheirology...

television writer and producer. Her book The Secret is based on the belief of the law of attraction, which claims that thoughts can change a person's life directly...

label used to describe someone who sells, promotes, or is a general proponent of some valueless or fraudulent cure, remedy, or solution. The term comes from...

Unreason. Wadsworth. pp. 24-29. ISBN 0-534-01153-5 Gardner, Martin. (2012 edition, originally published in 1957). Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science...

of blood from a patient to prevent or cure illness and disease. Bloodletting, whether by a physician or by leeches, was based on an ancient system of...

the scientific phenomenon of increased intestinal permeability commonly known as "leaky gut". Claims for the existence of "leaky gut syndrome" as a distinct...

motor or magnetic motor is a type of perpetual motion machine, which is intended to generate a rotation by means of permanent magnets in stator and rotor...

or cryptaesthesia, is a claimed paranormal ability pertaining to reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses, but sensed...

Barkun, professor of political science at Syracuse University, posits that the idea of a reptilian conspiracy originated in the fiction of Conan the Barbarian...

infectious disease, and that the germ theory of disease is wrong. It usually involves arguing that Louis Pasteur's model of infectious disease was wrong, and that...

Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine. It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann. Its...

In American science fiction of the 1950s and '60s, psionics was a proposed discipline that applied principles of engineering (especially electronics) to...

ISBN 0-7167-1395-0. Schadla-Hall, Tim (2004). "The Comforts of Unreason: The importance and relevance of alternative archaeology". In N. Merriman (ed.). Public...

The concept of indigo children gained popular interest with the publication of a series of books in the late 1990s and the release of several films...

encompasses a number of alternative medical therapies claimed to remove toxins from the colon and intestinal tract by removing accumulations of feces. Colon cleansing...

opal. Adherents of the practice claim that these have healing powers, but there is no scientific basis for this claim. Practitioners of crystal healing...

or /ˌfʌŋˈʃweɪ/), sometimes called Chinese geomancy, is a traditional form of geomancy that originated in Ancient China and claims to use energy forces...

(born c. 1969) is an American conspiracy theorist, who is one of the leading proponents of, and recruiters for, the discredited flat Earth conspiracy theory...

is capable of increasing the growth of plankton for fish feed, and that it increases the production of milk in cows, increases the weight of pigs, and...

founder of chiropractic. Palmer was born in Pickering Township, Canada West, but emigrated to the United States in 1865. He was also an avid proponent of pseudoscientific...

is placed on the body. It is similar to the alternative medicine practice of electromagnetic therapy, which uses a magnetic field generated by an electrically...

hole is drilled or scraped into the human skull. The intentional perforation of the cranium exposes the dura mater to treat health problems related to intracranial...