Pseudoscience

Carey, author of A Beginner’s Guide to Scientific Method. One rule states that to be considered a real science, the believers and researchers would have to embraces skepticism. But, pseudoscience tends to view the non-believers and skeptics as narrow-minded. “The benefit of trepanation is believed to be increased brain blood volume which makes you expand consciousness.” (trepan.com) Unfortunately, since there is no real way to accurately…

Golden Rice in India. However, the reasoning and effects of this issue has caused widespread controversy. Greenpeace’s protest on Golden Rice is causing it to lose support as it strays from their original goal of environmental protest into popular pseudoscience. Greenpeace found its beginnings in the Cold war as the “Don’t Make a Wave Committee,” a group of people who worked together in the basement of a church to…

by using magnetic fields (“Magnetic Healing”). Magnet therapy has become increasingly popular over the years, causing the sale of magnets for medical purposes to become billion dollar industry (Palermo). Magnetic healing is considered to be a pseudoscience by the scientific community due to the commonly falsified support it receives. Oftentimes, supporters of magnet therapy have trouble agreeing on one single reason as to why magnetic therapy works. Some say that because there is iron in blood,…

understanding, it becomes necessary to distinguish between what can be proved and what cannot. Falsifiability is a necessary tool in making that distinction between what can be verified and what cannot, while also providing a criterion between pseudoscience and science. Though it’s not perfect, it’s a solution that works for the time being in creating scientific discoveries and refuting incorrect information. In the beginning of human discovery, there is as Plato writes, “[A man] compelled to…

Graphology is the study of the brains expression through an individuals handwriting. It is often referred to as a pseudoscience as it does not have the distingushible aspects of a legitimate science such as using observation and experimentation to try and prove it wrong also to ensure that the researchers do not only try and find evidence to prove it. Meanwhile, Pseudoscience’s tend to ignore conflicting evidence. The scientific paper titled “ Does Graphology Predict Personality and…

Murray as a white nationalist who uses racist pseudoscience and misleading statistics. They also criticize that social inequality is caused by the genetic inferiority of the black and Latino communities, women and the poor.” The letter, written before Thursday’s event, said that his views were offensive…

or Just Pseudoscience? There is a need for real scientific methodology in paranormal research if it is to be taken seriously by the scientific community in general. There are two main competing arguments going on in the realm of paranormal research and investigation. One side says there is break throughs happening in the field and they are using high tech equipment and scientific figures to conduct their investigations and they are very excited about it. The other side calls it pseudoscience and…

Rusert, B. "Delany’s Comet: Fugitive Science and the Speculative Imaginary of Emancipation." American Quarterly, vol. 65 no. 4, 2013, pp. 799-829. Print. Thesis: In the 19th century U.S., race science was used to justify the treatment of enslaved African Americans and other minorities being treated as lesser beings. Yet at the same time, when slaves were brought across the Atlantic, they helped to reshape the way the nation would operate and its many understandings of science. Rusert argues…

Identifying the types of pseudoscience helped me to not be responsible for that as a potential primary producer of scientific source. Learning about other people’s culture helped me socialise better with other students and aware of my own biases so that I could not act them out. Professionally…

In the article Violent Video Games: Dogma, Fear and Pseudoscience, Christopher Ferguson discusses how poor or inaccurate research has led to a public misunderstanding of the effects of violent video games. In the article he discusses how much of the research, which has been misrepresented or disingenuous with its results or conclusions, has led to claims of negative effects which may be incorrect based on these issues. As part of this, I wanted to review how the people have viewed violent acts…