Pseudoscience

Misinformation is poison to our society, some of the following myths can contribute to social issues and even the imprisonment of innocent people. The reason that this myth is particularly destructive is that it is now used in many forms of advertisements and media. The idea that humans aren 't operating at their brains full potential is detrimental. It is imperative to know how to separate fact from fiction is psychological science because tricks and schemes could waste your valuable time and…

In recent years, concerns over the psychological effects of advertising and the trappings of consumerism have increased. The Onion uses the fictional product, MagnaSoles, as a model to humorously mock not only the embellished strategies used by companies to market products, but also the susceptible customers who are too quick to accept them as true. The play on legitimacy, depiction of the product as a panacea, and quotes of customer testimonies are used together to give an exaggerated version…

Color Therapy, or Chromotherapy, is used as an alternative to medicine and is considered to be a type of pseudoscience. Color therapy is a holistic and non-invasive, yet powerful, type of therapy that goes back to thousands of years. Color therapy can be found in India, China and Egypt texts that are ancient. Color is a light of wavelengths and energies used in color therapy. The light affects all living cells. When this light is used correctly, it can have a healing effect on humans, animals…

Astrology is now classified as pseudoscience yet people continue to adhere to old traditions. Many people still believe that a meticulously calculated birth chart holds all the secrets to their life. Astrology dictates that the placement of planets shape our destiny, whether it be good or bad. There is no way out of it, besides mantras, yogas, and sacrifice. You can only alleviate not resolve. “Placement of celestial objects” holds no ultimate authority of one 's future. It is a misconception…

The multi-billion dollar industry of nutritional supplements is like a wagon that is continually fueled by apocryphal advertising, fallacious claims by its manufacturers and distributors, along with a little dose of pseudoscience passed around in the gymnasiums without much foothold on factual scientific evidence. This has given rise to a lot of misinformation surrounding several nutritional supplements chiefly associated with weight loss, weight gain, athletic performance, sexual performance,…

The American notion of Africa and Africans seemingly has always been unapologetically filled with convoluted racist overtones and simplifications. From being titled the land without law, civility, and modernity to being the land of exotic primitivism and savagery, Africa continues to be a widely misappropriated continent. Not only was the American psyche regarding Africa shaped by colonial imaginations and mythology, the sentiment heavily persists without much change. The misconceptions of this…

Running head:LINDA TOFTEE COMPARISON PAPER COMPARISON PAPER Brown Mackie College Linda Toftee COMPARISON PAPER Science, fact or fiction, you be the judge. The two articles that I chose to write about are; Few mild-to-moderate parkinson’s disease patients suffer from malnutrition, yet almost one third are at risk (IOS Press BV, September.11, 2014). Also Slim quick diet pill. In the first article about Parkinson’s disease (PD) it basically is stating…

throughout the world continue to suffer the consequences of colonialism and the precedence the makers and shakers of that period established. As Europeans conquered mother Africa and established white rule, they conducted a series of studies using pseudoscience to spread misinformation about whites possessing superior intelligence and are genetically superior to black people. One of the greatest tools that Europeans brought with them to Africa was Christianity. The Europeans processed that they…

removed from the journal and website because it was inaccurate and seemed invalid. The fraud committed by all three authors and also the system the authors used to conduct the study made it seem far-fetched. The publication of irrational studies and pseudoscience in journals does impairment to the reader’s perception of not just medical science, but also science in general. The Columbian University Miracle Study can best be describes as misleading and hard to understand. The study is…

different races due to physical features and the understanding that those differences are of different worth. Both German and Australian authority, considered this practice a science, but with increasing scientific evidence, this was deemed a pseudoscience. The respective countries used scientific racism as justification for the things done to the races they classified as inferior. In Germany, social Darwinism was a basis for many of the laws created, such as the Nuremberg Race Laws. This…