Pseudoscience

The article I found is on the discovery of Homo naledi. Happened upon only by chance, the struggle to find Homo naledi was as hard as placing it with either Australopithecus or Homo. I found this article interesting because the discovery of a potentially new species could give us a clearer picture of our ancestors. We may never know the complete story, but as long as we keep on researching and exploring new ideas, our understanding will grow. In addition to adding to our understanding of…

For the past few generations, many Theologists, Evolutionist, and Atheist have debated over how human beings came into existence. Many Evolutionist, believe that the human race was created by the big bang and we evolved over the years. The question that I have for many evolutionist, is Who is the true Big Banger? Many Evolutionist claim that there is enough evidence to prove that there isn 't a creator. The evolutionist has the script flipped. There is enough evidence to prove that there is a…

Sigmund Freud is known as one of the most well known thinkers in world history. Freud was born May 6, 1856 in Freiberg, Austria which is now known as the Czech Republic. Him and his family moved to Vienna shortly after his birth where he lived for most of his life. Freud entered the University of Vienne at the age of seventeen with full intent on studying law. After studying under well known scientists, he decided on medicine. Freud received his medical degree from University of Vienna in 1881.…

Education is a big part of life for the majority of the people. In my research in education, a thought came into play; is single-sex success rate higher than coeducational school? To start with, single-sex schools are schools that only one type of gender is being taught while in coeducational schools is both mix genders being taught. There are many authors that had different ideas of who was more successful. They all did many different experiments, have different beliefs, morals, and work with…

Interests The parties interested in the raw milk debate can be broadly drawn into two camps. The pro raw milk advocates on one side call for policies that would facilitate raw milk sale and consumption. The pro raw milk coalition is comprised of a combination of nutritionists, small scale dairy farmers, and local food proponents. On the other side is the pro pasteurization camp which includes the vast majority of the dairy industry and virtually every food safety group (Miller 2007, 1). Between…

Non-heterosexual orientations and relationships have long been the topic of psychological research. While much of this research has been harmful or lead to harmful results, including pseudoscience such as conversion therapy, some of it has been of interest or even useful to LGBT communities. The studies reviewed in this paper, as well as other referenced studies, investigated the effects of several minority stressors on the stability and quality of same-sex relationships in various sample…

Virginia public schools that do not already include intelligent design and creationism into their curriculum should be required to. There are many people in the scientific community that regard creationism and intelligent design as pseudoscience. They believe this because they claim there is a lack of scientific proof for both theories and an abundance for their own. However, Creationism and Intelligent Design both have evidences for their legitimacy. The Virginia Board of Education (VBOE) and…

Discuss the services provided by phrenology, physiognomy, mesmerism, spiritualist, and mental healer. Identify what aspects of these pseudosciences are similar in some way to what professionals psychologist provide today. The psychologies of the 19th century such as phrenology, physiognomy, mesmerism, spiritualist, and mental healers were very popular and the public strongly believed in their teachings and practices. Phrenology used the cranial measurement to identify the talents and…

clitoral glans (sometimes), and the sewing up of the wound (leaving only a small hole for the flow of fluids. There is very little reason health wise to do this procedure at all. Any once credible health reasons have been dismissed as outright pseudoscience. FGM does have consequences toward the person who the procedure is done on however. Complications such as bacterial infections, bleeding, urinary complications, wound infections, and other ailments. Use of non-sterile instruments can possibly…

question that has been asked many times is “can we distinguish the sane from the insane?” and what are the treatments and conditions in mental hospitals. This specific question was addressed in Rosanhan’s On Being Same in Insane Places, Spitzer’s On pseudoscience in science, logic in remission, and psychiatric diagnosis: A critique of Rosenhan 's "On being sane in insane places” and in a more indirect fashion in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. Both Spitzer’s and Rosanhan’s studies provide…