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    Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method...
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  • This is a list of topics that have been characterized as pseudoscience by academics or researchers, either currently or in the past. Detailed discussion...
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    The history of pseudoscience is the study of pseudoscientific theories over time. A pseudoscience is a set of ideas that presents itself as science, while...
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    Cryptozoology (category Pseudoscience)
    Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience and subculture that searches for and studies unknown, legendary, or extinct animals whose present existence is disputed...
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  • Pignotti MG (2015). "Chapter 4: Pseudoscience in Treating Adults Who Experienced Trauma". Science and Pseudoscience in Social Work Practice. Springer...
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  • existence is disputed or unsubstantiated by science. Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience and has been widely critiqued by scientists. The subculture is regularly...
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  • Bourgeois pseudoscience (Russian: буржуазная лженаука) was a term of condemnation in the Soviet Union for certain scientific disciplines that were deemed...
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    scientific evidence, leading to the charge that it had become a kind of pseudoscience due to its proponents' rejection of empirical testing: An examination...
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    Clairvoyance (category Pseudoscience)
    widely considers parapsychology, including the study of clairvoyance, a pseudoscience. Pertaining to the ability of clear-sightedness, clairvoyance refers...
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  • been scientifically proven; thus, it is considered a subsection of pseudoscience. Within geobiology, distinct patterns of Earth radiation, mainly Hartmann...
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  • generally regarded by skeptics and science educators as an example of pseudoscience. Ufology is a neologism derived from UFO (a term apparently coined by...
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    ISBN 0-87169-183-3 Feder, Kenneth L. Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology. 6th ed., Oxford University Press, 2008. Haughton, Brian...
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    proof of the existence of such powers, and describes the practice as pseudoscience. Psychics encompass people in a variety of roles. Some are theatrical...
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  • Extrasensory perception (category Pseudoscience)
    are known only from anecdotes. Second sight and ESP are classified as pseudosciences. In the 1930s, at Duke University in North Carolina, J. B. Rhine and...
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  • number of planetary objects proposed in religion, astrology, ufology and pseudoscience whose existence is not supported by scientific evidence. Kolob is a...
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    and policies are now understood as part of a specious devotion to a pseudoscience that actively dehumanizes to support political agendas and not true...
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    Reiki (category Pseudoscience)
    such a life force exists. Reiki is used as an illustrative example of pseudoscience in scholarly texts and academic journal articles. The marketing of reiki...
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    Chiropractic Education International List of topics characterized as pseudoscience Toftness device World Federation of Chiropractic Chapman-Smith DA, Cleveland...
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    Parapsychology (category Pseudoscience)
    synchronicity, apparitional experiences, etc. Criticized as being a pseudoscience, the majority of mainstream scientists reject it. Parapsychology has...
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    Dowsing (category Pseudoscience)
    no more effective than random chance. It is therefore regarded as a pseudoscience. Dowsing originated in ancient times, when it was treated as a form...
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  • The Commission on Pseudoscience (Russian: Комиссия по борьбе с лженаукой) is a Russian scientific organization under the Presidium of the Russian Academy...
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    supported by scientific evidence, and as such it is considered to be a pseudoscience. Graphology has been controversial for more than a century. Although...
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    Sadhguru (born Jagadish "Jaggi" Vasudev, 3 September 1957) is an Indian guru and founder of the Isha Foundation, based in Coimbatore, India. The foundation...
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    Homeopathy (category Pseudoscience)
    of topics characterized as pseudoscience Scientific skepticism Tuomela, R (1987). "Science, Protoscience, and Pseudoscience". In Pitt JC, Marcello P (eds...
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  • 3 (section Pseudoscience)
    3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime...
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  • Leaky gut syndrome (category Pseudoscience)
    including diets, herbal preparations, and dietary supplements. Promoters of pseudoscience have claimed that the passage of proteins through a "leaky" gut is the...
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  • "Science and Pseudoscience". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Section 2: The "science" of pseudoscience. Archived from...
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    Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) is a premier scientific organisation of India with headquarters at Kolkata, West Bengal. The association started...
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  • The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience is a two-volume collection of articles that discuss the Skeptics Society's scientific findings of investigations...
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  • other dismissive labels, such as pseudoarchaeology, pseudohistory, and pseudoscience. Describing ideas as fringe theories may be less pejorative than describing...
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