A fringe theory is an idea or a viewpoint that differs significantly from the accepted scholarship of the time within its field. Fringe theories include...

Fringe science refers to ideas whose attributes include being highly speculative or relying on premises already refuted. Fringe science theories are often...

Look up fringe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fringe may refer to: "The Fringe", or Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the world's largest arts festival Adelaide...

a theory is part of the scientific method. Physical theories can be grouped into three categories: mainstream theories, proposed theories and fringe theories...

groups, and negative consequences for the economy. Conspiracy theories once limited to fringe audiences have become commonplace in mass media, the internet...

theories. While the claims have received some exposure in popular culture, they are regarded by historians and scientific experts as disproven fringe...

eroded and weathered bedrock. The Richat structure has been the subject of fringe claims to be the site of Atlantis mentioned in the works of Plato. This...

The Past Is Human: Debunking Von Daniken's Gee-Whiz Theories. Taplinger. [ISBN missing] 'Fringe' or 'cult' archaeology examined by professional archaeologist...

a prominent role in fantasy, science fiction, ufology, and conspiracy theories. The idea of reptilians was popularised by David Icke, an anti-semitic...

The Orion correlation theory is a fringe theory in Egyptology attempting to explain the arrangement of the Giza pyramid complex. It posits that there...

The refrigerator mother theory, also known as Bettelheim's theory of autism, is a largely abandoned psychological fringe theory that the cause of autism...

variant of the belief in alien-human hybrids in New Age belief and fringe theory. Introduced by Brad Steiger in his 1976 book Gods of Aquarius, it argues...

Humorism, the humoral theory, or humoralism, was a system of medicine detailing a supposed makeup and workings of the human body, adopted by Ancient Greek...

says the idea is "gaining traction with members of Congress as well as fringe conspiracy theorists." In his 2011 book, fellow law professor Adam Winkler...

being cleaned or from visitors making molds of it. Some adherents of fringe theories, such as Young Earth creationists and cryptozoologists, have put forth...

practicing medicine without a license. Antiscience Credulity Factoid Fringe theory List of topics characterized as pseudoscience Magical thinking Not even...

"the theory was not proposed to be either proven or falsified". Falsifiability is a central tenet of the scientific method. Popular psychology Fringe science...

The Japanese-Jewish common ancestry theory (日ユ同祖論, Nichiyu Dōsoron) is a fringe theory that appeared in the 17th century as a hypothesis which claimed...

Through observations made in the study of statistics, specifically chaos theory and the law of truly large numbers, skeptics explain these anecdotal observations...

superseded theories, and conversely, a lack of superseded theories can indicate problems in following the use of the scientific method. Fringe science includes...

but a few Shakespeare scholars and literary historians consider it a fringe theory, and for the most part acknowledge it only to rebut or disparage the...

cosmology. The model has undergone a recent resurgence as a conspiracy theory. The idea of a spherical Earth appeared in ancient Greek philosophy with...

ideas of Darwinism. The German nationalists misemployed the scientific theory of natural selection for the rationalization of the supposed fitness of...

told this theory to Olsen, who didn't seem to be very impressed. Although Olsen denied having ever talked to Flynn, he related this theory in his book...

virtually all mainstream scholars of antiquity, and has been considered a fringe theory for more than two centuries. It is criticized for commonly being presented...

subgenre of adventure fiction. Hollow Earth also recurs in conspiracy theories such as the underground kingdom of Agartha and the Cryptoterrestrial hypothesis...

scientists using actual shroud material, and are thus considered to be fringe theories. The Holy See received custody of the shroud in 1983, and as with other...

Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci. It premiered on the Fox television network...

mean that the names' similarity would be coincidental. A more specific theory about the word Gautigoths is that it means the Goths who live near the river...

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