Pseudoscience

SCENARIO B Fact Check There are a few errors that are present within the scientific information of scenario B. First, it falsely informs the readers by stating that one of the three colors that the human eye is sensitive to is the color yellow. However, according to Lilienfeld et al. (2014), the Trichromatic theory actually suggest that the human eye contains specific photoreceptor cells, specifically cones, that are responsible for colored vision and are sensitive to the colors red, green, and…

all heard about energy drinks from friends, commercials, or even family members, but are they really good for you to drink them? To sum up energy drinks they are basically “a middling amount of caffeine combined with mega-doses of marketing and pseudoscience” (Beyerstein 1). There are many types of energy drink companies, such as “Monster”, “Red Bull”, “Rockstar”, etc. None of these are good for you in anyway. Of course they may give you five or six hours of energy, but what they do to your body…

2. How does Kuhn 's view differ from Popper 's view of science? Kuhn 's view differs from Popper 's view of science in the way of scientific method. Popper sets a very high standard for scientific method by the principle of demarcation and criticism. According to Popper, any theory can be proven false through empirical evidence or experimental data but cannot be proven true. In this view, any theory is always in the state of being not yet disproved. However, Kuhn thinks that in normal science…

He is a 20th century philosopher whose characteristic work was to find a theory that distinguished the difference between science and pseudoscience. This is the demarcation problem. He classified unfalsifiable as pseudoscience, or as unscientific, and vice versa. Popper made several considerations that discuss the importance to test scientific theories. This is found from an excerpt entitled Science:Conjectures and Refutations…

Main Point The ideology of color blindness suggests that society is far from advancing in equality and that people are not seeing the cultural, institutional, and organizational discrimination. People who believe the colorblind ideology, are not aware of the systematic racism that exist in society. These people are in position to knowingly or unknowingly support racial hierarchies and power dynamics. Concepts and Ideas Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres of breaks down what constitutes as…

not being allowed to attend public school without their vaccines. While every individual is entitled to their own beliefs and the rights to their own bodies, vaccine denialism is an ideology that is illogical and insufficient. Not only does this pseudoscience topic have no scientific proof to back it up, and infinite amounts of evidence to disprove it, but it has the potential to cause mass illness and low immunity throughout the world, even for the people who disagree with it as a…

One day in high school, I feel a pain begin fester in the back of my leg while running one day. Eventually this pain becomes so unbearable that I need to see a doctor. He was recommended to me by a friend saying that he uses alternative methods for healing. I went to see him and when there, he used a couple different techniques, including acupuncture. The next day I was able to run again with a significant decrease in pain. For over 3,000 years, acupuncture has been used to treat pain and…

“Over the subsequent 50 years, a period of extraordinary public service, Jefferson remained the master of Monticello, and a buyer and seller of human beings” (Finkelman 2). In the article, “The Monster of Monticello,” the author uncovers the truth behind Jefferson. Jefferson was a slave owner that treated his servants with disrespect and cruelty. At the same time he was president, constantly talking about the ideas of equality in the United States. In the article, Paul Finkelman uses the word…

The website about finding a new, “correct” value for pi falls into pseudoscience. The author, Mohammad-Reza Mehdinia, commits the logical fallacy of availability bias, which doubles as skipping an important aspect of science. This feature is considering previous experiments, data, or works and sifting through why they do not match with the new information. Mehdinia writes on his site that he does not include or consider the previous works involving pi in his research and calculations. While…

The other more common theories include human made, weather, paranormal, and animal activity (Hussey, 2014). Let’s start with what the pseudoscience community believes are the requirements for a crop circle to be considered legitimate and not a hoax. The plant shafts are bent around an inch off the floor, very deliberate and precise geometric patterns with little to no signs of any physical…