The Bermuda Triangle: Pseudoscience?
Coined by philosopher, Karl Popper, ‘Pseudoscience’ is a term that is prevelant and used to describe theories or even fields of study that appear scientific but are not authentically so. Much like scientific claims or theories, pseudoscientific ideas also stem from curiosity of the humankind. They tend to use seemingly scientific jargon to rationalize concepts but are often scarcely refutable and are devoid of experimentation and evidence. This essay aims to bring out the flaws in pseudoscientific claims through the example of the Bermuda Triangle and demonstrate how and why this concept is not scientific.
For many years together, the mysterious disappearance of ships, planes and even two nuclear submarines in and over the region popularly called the Bermuda Triangle (or the Devil’s Triangle) has fiddled with human curiosity and compelled our race to make repeated attempts at unravelling this mystery. According to a few sources, the Bermuda Triangle is known to be located in “an area of the western north Atlantic approximately bounded by imaginary lines drawn between Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and the tip of Florida”. Gian J. Quasar has called the vanishing of vessels in the region “the world’s greatest mystery”.
In the quest to find answers to the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, a number of theories have been suggested: the gulf …show more content…
In context of the theories of Marx, Freud and Adler; Popper writes, “The most characteristic element in this situation seemed to me the incessant stream of confirmations, of observations which "verified" the theories in question”. The theories provided to explain the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon fit Popper’s description of Marx, Freud and Adler’s theories that he labelled as
Coined by philosopher, Karl Popper, ‘Pseudoscience’ is a term that is prevelant and used to describe theories or even fields of study that appear scientific but are not authentically so. Much like scientific claims or theories, pseudoscientific ideas also stem from curiosity of the humankind. They tend to use seemingly scientific jargon to rationalize concepts but are often scarcely refutable and are devoid of experimentation and evidence. This essay aims to bring out the flaws in pseudoscientific claims through the example of the Bermuda Triangle and demonstrate how and why this concept is not scientific.
For many years together, the mysterious disappearance of ships, planes and even two nuclear submarines in and over the region popularly called the Bermuda Triangle (or the Devil’s Triangle) has fiddled with human curiosity and compelled our race to make repeated attempts at unravelling this mystery. According to a few sources, the Bermuda Triangle is known to be located in “an area of the western north Atlantic approximately bounded by imaginary lines drawn between Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and the tip of Florida”. Gian J. Quasar has called the vanishing of vessels in the region “the world’s greatest mystery”.
In the quest to find answers to the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, a number of theories have been suggested: the gulf …show more content…
In context of the theories of Marx, Freud and Adler; Popper writes, “The most characteristic element in this situation seemed to me the incessant stream of confirmations, of observations which "verified" the theories in question”. The theories provided to explain the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon fit Popper’s description of Marx, Freud and Adler’s theories that he labelled as