Pseudoscience

There is a constructed myth about Chicano families not valuing education. Richard R. Valencia and Mary S. Black attribute this myth to “deficit thinking” theory (Valencia & Black, 83). Deficit thinking is based on pseudoscience, and applied to Mexican-american families of a low-socioeconomic status (SES), for a student’s degree of academic success. Deficit thinking, looks at an individual's culture as the source of their school failure, rather than pointing out the educational…

Why are some people successful and some people not? This question has been thrown around for decades and yet no one could pinpoint the exact reason some people became rich and famous and some were stuck in terrible situations that they could not escape. It all eventually boiled down to one word… Grit. This theory created in 1907 by William James, an American philosopher and psychologist, is now the focal point of many philosophers and scientists thoughts. One psychologist in particular Angela…

Shafak begins by recounting her childhood experience as she grew up in Turkey within a patriarchal society. She discussed her grandmother and how she would use a form of pseudoscience in order to cure acne, warts, and other blemishes. Despite the ways in which she attempted to cure the afflicted, many would return healthy despite being viewed as a spiritual ritual that mock the dermatological science we possess today. Shafak…

Pertinent to this issue is the demarcation problem; once a problem that only concerned philosophers, the demarcation problem seeks to distinguish science from pseudoscience (Pigliucci & Boudry, 2013). Subsequently, this places great skepticism around the scientific basis of psychology, as evidenced throughout its history. Whether psychology can be considered a science has been a fundamental debate since its inception…

in medicine. I know that anti-abortion groups will want us to believe that abortion is wrong and evil, we should disregard their arguments because they are solely based on emotions and individual beliefs. There is no scientific fact, aside from pseudoscience, that supports their arguments. The benefits of abortion, starting from woman right to relieve from psychological burden of unwanted pregnancy and all the way to scientific benefits, have positively affect our society and our world. Let us…

Hiss states that Grand Central is ever-changing: These days, though, there are much sadder sights in the concourse than there used to be: In the mid-1980s, Grand Central became a principal hangout for large numbers of homeless people, as well as for some of those who prey on the homeless. The various means of population displacement are as a result of economic, social, or political factors. Society and culture generally demand a hierarchy, a likely result of our animalistic origins of predator…

What is Eugenics? EugenicsEugenics is a movement that is aimed at improving the genetic composition of the human race. Historically, eugenicists advocated selective breeding to achieve these goals. Today we have technologies that make it possible to more directly alter the genetic composition of an individual. However, people differ in their views on how to best (and ethically) use this technology. ❖ Improvement of human population by controlled breeding and desirable characteristics. ❖…

2b. How does our society currently interact with science? How has this changed from the time of Aristotle? Answer 2b: In the days of Aristotle, the interaction between science and society was limited. Science was for the few elite who had time to dedicate to impractical studies such as astronomy, which didn’t affect common people. The gods and the divine represented one of the most determining roles society played in early science (as religion does today). In “On the Heavens,” Aristotle…

“Rationalism is the belief that at least some knowledge about reality can be acquired through reason, independently of sense experience.”. Rationalism was a philosophical movement that appeared around 500 BC and is often described as one of the most important theories of philosophy. It consist of three main basic claims: The Intuition/Deduction Thesis, The Innate Knowledge Thesis and the The Innate Concept Thesis. For a philosopher to claim himself as a rationalist, he has to apply at least one…

The brain is the most fascinating and complex organ in the body. It is so powerful that we haven’t been able to map it out completely. The brain has a whole branch of science dedicated to it. Psychology is the scientific study of the mind, brain, and behavior. (Lillienfeld) The brain has the ability to receive and send signals better than any computer. We have the capability to perceive emotions because of our brain and it is really interesting how certain areas of the brain do specific things…