Pseudoscience

controversial…Advocates of animal testing argue that the practice is good science that produces data crucial for developing medicines and combating disease and to help learn the effects of commercial and industrial products on humans. Detractors claim it is pseudoscience, as the tests cause undue harm and suffering to the animals, the results generated are of dubious use for human research, and that better results can be generated through non-animal based alternatives.” ( Brian Regal). Brian…

“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.” (Isaac Newton) This takes place among the most basic argument that arises when discussing religious fundamental beliefs. An idea that, since no absolute proof of our origin has shown, we must come from an intelligent source, because something did not come from nothing. Consistently perpetuating as a powerful way of thought, disputed throughout history many individuals dying and persecuted as a…

A quick glance at the local or national paper will show you that there are many environmental issues today. Some of the issues you will hear about are related to population issues and how to control the population of humans on Earth. Some stories will be about the loss of ecosystems in some part of the world. Maybe you'll see something that has to do with the current administration treats environmental issues. You are going to probably be reading a lot of articles that talk about climate change…

issue in the United States right now involving GMO’s is whether they should have to be labeled by producers. Many of the decisions around GMO’s in the United States are "a combination of unfounded allegations about the technology and purveyors, pseudoscience, and attempts to apply a strict precautionary principle" as stated by D. A. Goldstein a researcher for…

Research Methods Midterm Exam Guadalupe M. Flores Fullerton College If Behavioral scientists start conducting applied research only, it will concentrate on finding a specific solution. The pro about this is that budget will be more available for scientists using applied research if they stop conducting basic research studies. Basic research studies are done based on curiosity in science but the results do not have immediate application in real world. With this in mind, getting rid…

Though, when Jose Cordeiro asked Clarke what he thought about religion in general, Clarke replied “Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses. I am afraid to be struck by lightning one day while saying this” (Cordeiro). The slight skepticism in this quote is manifested in Clarke’s short story The Nine Billion Names of God. In this story, the Dalai Lama calls a man to create a machine that will print out all of the names that describe God in a specific language that the monks had devised…

Introduction To truly understand the mining industry, one must look at its roots; from ancient times, gold, silver, copper, coal, and other valuable items have been mined. Described as pioneers and often a subset of culture, miners developed a distinctive ethos, which defined them and was passed down from generation to generation. This principle of miner brotherhood dictated acceptable practices including: the labor-intensive day-to-day functions, the risks associated with carving into nature,…

horrible practice of some, while many have tried to eradicate the issue. Slavery was a particularly dark period of race relations in America, in the form of white men who claimed ownership of his black brothers. This was solely on the basis of a pseudoscience that they were inferior, and thus weren 't worthy of basic human rights. It was a sordid period in human history, yet some of history’s great leaders and heroes arose in opposing this great evil. Among the most important and vocal of the…

In the world of psychiatry nearly all drugs in use today were created between 1950 and 1969. It’s hard to imagine with so many drug commercials on TV revealing new and groundbreaking products, that the same products being advertised today were actually created based on chemistry performed more than 60 years ago (Klein, p.259, 2014). The reason behind this is simple. The creation of new drugs based on finding new molecular entities is extremely costly. For the Federal Drug Administration (FDA)…

This is particularly important in concepts that involve past events, which cannot be tested. Take, for example, the Big Bang Theory or the Theory of Biological Evolution as it pertains to the past; both are theories that explain all of the facts so far gathered from the past, but cannot be verified as absolute truth, since we cannot go back to test them. More and more data will be gathered on each to either support or disprove them. The key force for change in a theory is, of course, the…