Junk science is spurious or fraudulent scientific data, research, or analysis. The concept is often invoked in political and legal contexts where facts...
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Pseudoscience (redirect from Pseudo science)
been experimentally discredited. It is not the same as junk science. The demarcation between science and pseudoscience has scientific, philosophical, and...
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as pseudoscience, fringe science, or junk science. Physicist Richard Feynman coined the term "cargo cult science" for cases in which researchers believe...
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Junk Science is the first studio album by electronic music duo Deep Dish. The album reached number 37 in the United Kingdom. The Independent wrote that...
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characterized by journalists and researchers as promoting pseudoscience or junk science. Numerous websites have been created by companies that contain satirical...
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Occult (redirect from Occult science)
practices which generally fall outside the scope of organized religion and science, encompassing phenomena involving a 'hidden' or 'secret' agency, such as...
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Polygraph (section National Academy of Sciences)
polygraph, often incorrectly referred to as a lie detector test, is a junk science device or procedure that measures and records several physiological indicators...
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skeptics have dismissed the Warrens' museum as "full of off-the-shelf Halloween junk, dolls and toys, books you could buy at any bookstore". Laycock calls the...
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Steven Milloy (section Junk science)
adjunct scholar at the libertarian Cato Institute, which hosted the JunkScience.com site. He was an adjunct scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute...
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science, "categories ... such as ... pseudoscience, amateur science, deviant or fraudulent science, bad science, junk science, pathological science,...
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Junk DNA (non-functional DNA) is a DNA sequence that has no known biological function. Most organisms have some junk DNA in their genomes—mostly, pseudogenes...
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science Charlatan Crank Fringe theory Fringe science Pseudoarchaeology Pseudohistory Pseudomathematics Junk science Paranormal Pathological science Quackery...
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in ESP Research. Science New Series, Vol. 201, No. 4351. pp. 131–136. Bunge, Mario. (1987). "Why Parapsychology Cannot Become a Science". Behavioral and...
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charitable giving" (PDF). University of Toronto Department of Political Science Working Papers. Retrieved 14 January 2023. Arabi, Shahida (2020). The highly...
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Astrology (section Reception in the social sciences)
2022.; "Chapter 7: Science and Technology: Public Attitudes and Understanding". science and engineering indicators 2006. National Science Foundation. Archived...
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Exploration – American body to study fringe sciencePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Junk science – Scientific data considered to be spurious...
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science in an attempt to claim a legitimacy that it would not otherwise be able to achieve is referred to as pseudoscience, fringe science, or junk science...
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(10 January 2018). "Goop's "Trusted Expert" Anthony William Dispenses Junk Science, Say Critics". Inverse.com. Inverse. Archived from the original on 3...
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"Junk food" is a term used to describe food that is high in calories from macronutrients such as sugar and/or fat, and possibly sodium, making it hyperpalatable...
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believe black-eyed children to be extraterrestrials, vampires, or ghosts. Science writer Sharon A. Hill was unable to find any documentation of black-eyed...
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supposed reptilian humanoids, which play a prominent role in fantasy, science fiction, ufology, and conspiracy theories. The idea of reptilians was popularised...
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Outside mathematics, "proof by intimidation" is also cited by critics of junk science, to describe cases in which scientific evidence is thrown aside in favour...
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dissonance Communal reinforcement Fallacy Falsifiability Fringe science Groupthink Hypnosis Junk science Protoscience Pseudoscience Scientific evidence Scientific...
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scientific method, cryptozoology is considered a pseudoscience by mainstream science: it is neither a branch of zoology nor of folklore studies. It was originally...
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Mothman taken by an anonymous man while driving on Route 2 in Mason County. Science writer Sharon A. Hill proposed that the photo showed "a bird, perhaps an...
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contention that these phenomena exist. In 1984, the National Academy of Sciences, at the request of the US Army Research Institute, formed a scientific...
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