"I think it's appropriate that someone with a pseudo-science degree is here pushing pseudo-science in front of our committee today," Massie said.
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Some see it as pseudo-science, while others swear by it.
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Many of the narratives about "gaming disorder" are simply pseudo-science.
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The journals are giving rise to a wider ecosystem of pseudo science.
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She says that the pseudo-science was soon reinforced by elitist social views.
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Ironically, conservation science is being derailed, at least in part, by blatant pseudo-science.
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They were seen by many whites as subhuman, consigned to inferiority by pseudo-science.
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Eugenics is the pseudo-science of improving the human population through controlled and selective breeding.
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"Now we have enough data to treat economics like a real science, not a pseudo-science," Guzman says.
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We should be taking medical advice from medical professionals, not strangers on the internet spreading pseudo-science misinformation.
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On the flip-side, sometimes we see bigotry defended with big words, pseudo-science and high-minded phrases.
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In fact, the term originates from astrology, a pseudo-science that tends to make big deals out of insignificant coincidences.
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The Guardian said Peterson's arguments often include "pseudo-science and conspiracy theories," and often involve topics he is unqualified to discuss.
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These different meanings are rooted in mythology, pseudo-science, and the intentions of governments and other institutions with particular agendas in mind.
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Saying that naturopathy is pseudo-science is the over-generalization of the decade, and the author needs to get her facts straight.
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"Recognizing everyone's inherent dignity, respecting human rights, and appreciating real science over pseudo-science all demand he do so," the group said.
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"This consumer space is rife with pseudo science," agrees Abbott, who has a PhD in microbiology and immunology from the University of Michigan.
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" Iowa's Attorney General, Tom Miller, is not impressed, with his lawsuit calling the claims "almost certainly pure bunk" and "pseudo-science at its worst.
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Basing their arguments on pseudo-science, Tenny and his cohorts are attempting to railroad through legislation that declares tree-burning to be carbon neutral.
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But Heinlein was nonetheless fascinated by the way his old friend Hubbard had created a pseudo-science that eventually became the religion of Scientology.
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"I know it sounds like pseudo-science, a kind of stock market astrology or alchemy, but the fact is, it does work," Cramer said.
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Although Fyodorov's project might seem to us today like fringe science or pseudo–science fiction, it was very influential in early-20th-century Russia.
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Despite plenty of stoner message boards on the internet scribbled with pseudo-science attempting to answer that question, it's more complicated than you might think.
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Their main purpose is to encourage undecided pregnant women to carry their pregnancies to term—and they frequently deploy pseudo-science to achieve these aims.
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They are known to use scaremongering pseudo-science to frighten women from considering abortions, including false claims that abortion leads to breast cancer or infertility.
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"Read the ingredient list on packaged foods, and look for a list that reads more like a recipe rather than a pseudo-science experiment," she added.
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Three years ago, this was the astonishing cry of a pro-life judge citing pseudo-science to undermine a four-decade-old precedent of the Supreme Court.
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I wish I could say the pseudo-science advocated by some men in the tech industry — such as James Altizer and Paul Graham— was an isolated phenomenon.
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When talking about his cover, artist Barry Blitt said that the practice of palmistry "never really established itself as anything more than a pseudo-science," according to magazine.
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Through front groups like the Competitive Enterprise Institute -- well represented on President-elect Trump's transition team -- the company bankrolled pseudo-science designed to create uncertainty in the public's mind.
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That anyone would ever want to be subjected to this level of scrutiny and algorithmic pseudo-science for the sake of a friend recommendation was not addressed by the engineer.
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Obviously, this description is part of a joke, but it conjures a very specific image of a middle-aged hippie woman with overpriced services based on pseudo-science and Goop.
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Conversation with people who are willfully promoting fake news and pseudo science is legitimizing a platform of things that aren't true and I don't think that is good at all.
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The film premiered as thousands of Haitians arrived on Florida's shores fleeing economic and political turmoil, amid sweeping pseudo-science judgments of Haitians as agents of death as carriers of AIDS.
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They use pseudo-science to convince the public that these products are safe and effective, and they use public shaming to convince the citizenry that non-compliance is a public health threat.
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Omron's devices aren't your average pseudo-science wearables Typically, measuring blood pressure from the wrist is tricky; your arm has to be in the right position in order to get an accurate reading.
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Throughout history, the mysteries of somnambulance have lead many to come up with their own theories—drawing on spirituality, pseudo-science, and folklore—with sleepwalkers seeming to exist somewhere between this world and another.
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Fans, mostly on Tumblr, have tallied a list of reasons, photographs, and even used a bit of pseudo-science to try to prove that baby Freddie is either a doll or someone else's child.
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Its dogged pseudo-science is that of a political ideology obsessed by schematic theorising, one that refuses to adapt itself to the reality that grows around it—even at the cost of millions of lives.
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I'd been on a Beatnik kick for a while, and then I started reading about all these pseudo-science characters, who'd been big in the northern California scene during the 60's and 70's.
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To be fair, it won't dip as low as the 33% I predicted based on the studio's handling of the film – my own personal pseudo-science based on review embargo timing and a few other factors.
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" It's not hard to see why the actress has been criticized for promoting pseudo-science — some would even say misinformation — leading to online articles like "Don't Take Medical Advice From Gwyneth Paltrow" and "Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?
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This claim was a bit self-serving since Campbell always had a taste for pseudo-science, but it's undeniable that Heinlein's own work, grounded in his education as an engineer, brought a new level of plausibility to the genre.
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Unfortunately, these efforts issued in the racist pseudo-science of Voltaire and Hume (or so Gray claims), while all attempts to inaugurate the rule of reason have resulted in bloody fanaticisms, from Jacobinism to Bolshevism, that equaled the worst atrocities attributable to believers.
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Thomas Davis is fighting to play in the big game despite a broken arm and he's going to give it his all, thanks to the will to win, a plethora of drugs, and some crazy pseudo-science, like injecting the yogurt Cam endorses into his bloodstream.
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But whether you side with Howe, and the NHS line on PMS and coordination, or take a side-long glance at what might be pseudo-science as Chrisler does, one thing's for sure: I've got to keep a tighter grip on my damn drumsticks every few weeks.
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Campbell eventually became disillusioned with Dianetics, but moved on to becoming an advocate for other forms of pseudo-science, including the Dean Drive (a perpetual motion machine), the Hieronymus machine (which supposedly amplified telekinesis and other psi powers), racial determinism, and the firm conviction that smoking doesn't cause cancer.
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" Though alchemy is often stigmatized as pseudo-science today, Brafmam maintains that in the past, "Alchemy was a mainstream technology that has been essential to human expression for thousands of years around the globe—and almost all the objects we needed to illustrate this were right here in Los Angeles.
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I'm a musical sleeper myself, maybe under the spell of both the city (where I grew up and where noise at night is its own kind of lullaby) and the pseudo-science and the science that says that babies should listen to Bach while they're sleeping and that old people should too.
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They are premised on faulty pseudo-science that lay people (often untrained) can somehow compare two signatures and determine if they match or not… these matching laws disenfranchise tens of thousands of eligible voters … worse, many states provide no notification to the affected voter or meaningful opportunity to 'cure' the rejected ballot.
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Mimi Thi Nguyen, associate professor of gender and women's studies and Asian American studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and author of the upcoming book The Promise of Beauty, pointed out via email that the micrometer came at a time of peak interest in the pseudo-science of physiognomy–an assessment of moral character based on facial features and body type.
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Using pseudo-science and outright falsehoods to justify their continued attack on contraception coverage and access -- from claiming birth control doesn't really reduce unwanted pregnancies and leads to riskier sex, to inflating the so-called "harms" of birth control pills -- the Trump administration clearly aims to curtail reproductive freedom not because that's what the majority of Americans want, but because it appeases a religious base that helped elect President Donald Trump in the first place.
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The book debunks what it characterises as pseudo-science and the pseudo-scientists who propagate it.
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He included phrenologist analysis of historical peoples, as part of a new wave of positivist historians that sought to combine history with science.Gelman, p. 204 However, phrenology is currently rejected as a pseudo-science.
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In Defence of Science: Science, technology, and politics in modern society, University of Toronto Press. . Chap. 5, Pseudo-science, pp. 120–50; adapted from Grove, J. W. (1985). Rationality at Risk: Science against Pseudoscience.
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The article states that while the society includes many prominent and well-respected scientists, some of its members, publications, and events have also promoted ideas characterized by New Statesman as "racist pseudo-science". The society runs the journal Intelligence.
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Suggestopedia has been called a "pseudo-science".Richards, J.C. and Rodgers, T.S. (2001). Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press It depends, in a sense, on the trust that students develop towards the method.
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Loren Coleman (born July 12, 1947) is an American cryptozoologist who has written over 40 books on a number of topics, including the pseudoscience and subculture of cryptozoology.Brenner, Laurie. (2018). "Cryptozoology: The Pseudo-Science of Mythical Creatures". Retrieved 13 September 2019.
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In 2011 Skepsis ry, a society of Finnish sceptics, awarded J. Kärkkäinen a Huuhaa Prize, a prize for promoting pseudo- science, for publishing Magneettimedia. Skepsis accused Magneettimedia of promoting alternative medicine and conspiracy theories.Huuhaa-palkinnot Skepsis. Retrieved January 22, 2017.
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In late December 2014, Ram Prasad Gandhiraman, a scientist at the NASA's Ames Research Center, started a petition to prevent the paper from being presented at the conference. By 31 December, 220 scientists and academicians had signed the petition. Gandhiraman criticized the paper as pseudo-science and said that mythology should not be mixed with science. S. M. Deshpande, a professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, who has written a paper with four others on aircraft in Sanskrit texts, said that we should not reject such claims as pseudo-science outright but examine them with intellectual curiosity.
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Language and Philosophy: Studies in Method. p. 246. And in 1952, two years after Korzybski died, American skeptic Martin Gardner wrote, "[Korzybski's] work moves into the realm of cultism and pseudo- science."Gardner, Martin (1957). Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science.
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Ynglism is not recognised as a legitimate branch of Rodnovery by mainstream Rodnover groups. In 2009, two of the largest Russian Rodnover organisations issued a joint statement against Ynglism, disapproving what they considered as Ynglists' "pseudo-Pagan teachings, pseudo-linguistics, pseudo-science and outright fiction".
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The concept of the zàng-fǔ is based on ancient metaphor and anecdote – the underlying assumptions and theory are not able to be verified or falsified by experiment. Probably because of this, the concept (and TCM as a whole) has been criticized as pseudo science.
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Featherstone expressed disapproval of a trend towards articles "attempting to spread an aura of pseudo-science over what is a pastime". In 1962, he started his own periodical, Wargamer's Newsletter. He produced this each month without a gap, with 214 editions until January 1980.
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A minor planet (1629 Pecker) is named after him. Pecker was a vocal opponent of astrology and pseudo-science and was the president of the Association française pour l'information scientifique (AFIS), a skeptical organisation which promotes scientific enquiry in the face of quackery and obscurantism.
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Krypton, 2008, p. 9-10. Young Serra listens and actively participates in a classroom discussion which focuses on topics in pseudo- science. Serra places the age of the Earth at 10,000 years and classifies fossils as a ruse by Satan to "trick mankind."Krypton, 2008, p. 10.
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He also critiqued Marxist doctrine as a "hybrid ... of quasi-religion and pseudo- science" that would depose one king for another. He emigrated to Israel around 1957, where he translated his Yiddish writing into Hebrew. Gordin died in Tel Aviv in 1964. Services were held August 23.
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Pataphysics is, as Jarry explains, "the science of the realm beyond metaphysics". Pataphysics is a pseudo-science Jarry created to critique members of the academy. It studies the laws that "govern exceptions and will explain the universe supplementary to this one". It is the "science of imaginary solutions".
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The word pseudoscience is derived from the Greek root pseudo meaning false and the English word science, from the Latin word scientia, meaning "knowledge". Although the term has been in use since at least the late 18th century (e.g., in 1796 by James Pettit Andrews in reference to alchemy), the concept of pseudoscience as distinct from real or proper science seems to have become more widespread during the mid-19th century. Among the earliest uses of "pseudo-science" was in an 1844 article in the Northern Journal of Medicine, issue 387: An earlier use of the term was in 1843 by the French physiologist François Magendie, that refers to phrenology as "a pseudo-science of the present day".
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The term middlebrow describes easily accessible art, usually literature, and the people who use the arts to acquire culture and "class" (social prestige). First used in the British satire magazine Punch in 1925, the term middlebrow is the intermediary "brow" descriptor between highbrow and lowbrow, which are terms derived from the pseudo-science of phrenology.
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In addition to racial pseudo-science, the end of the 19th century was a period of state-sponsored modernization in Germany. Industrial development altered many aspects of society. Most notably, the period shifted social norms of work and life. For Roma, this meant a denial of their traditional way of life as craftsmen and artisans.
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Popper often uses astrology as an example of a pseudo-science. He says that it is not falsifiable because both the theory itself and its predictions are too imprecise. Kuhn, as an historian of science, remarked that many predictions made by astrologers in the past were quite precise and they were very often falsified. He also said that astrologers themselves acknowledged these falsifications.
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However, some of the means by which people cope with the "Change" are inventing new anti-scientific religions such as the Third Ba'al, or adopting pseudo-science. As humans develop interstellar travel, they discover no other races are as intelligent as they; other races developed pre- Change intelligence, and there was no environmental pressure to select for higher intelligence after that.
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In 2009, the Union of Slavic Native Belief Communities and the Circle of Pagan Tradition issued a joint statement against Ynglism, disapproving what they reckoned as the Ynglists' "pseudo-Pagan teachings, pseudo-linguistics, pseudo- science and outright fiction". Polish Rodnovers worshipping in the woods. In Poland, the Wrocław-based publishing house Toporzeł reissued Stachniuk's works and those of his disciple Antoni Wacyk.
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They perceived themselves as "interpreters of the sciences for the people". For example, it was with this in mind that academicians took it upon themselves to disprove the popular pseudo-science of mesmerism.Roche, 515–16. The strongest contribution of the French Academies to the public sphere comes from the concours académiques (roughly translated as "academic contests") they sponsored throughout France.
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Grove, J.W. (1989). In Defence of Science: Science, technology, and, politics in modern society, University of Toronto Press. . Chap. 5, Pseudo- science, pp. 120-50. Their disapproval was re-invigorated when Macmillan included Worlds in Collision among other trade books of possible interest to professors listed under the category "Science" in the back of a textbook catalog mailed to college professors.
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All of this is in opposition to pseudo- science, -religion, -Church, -State, and pseudo-personality. Thus humans are indeed vulnerable and susceptible to the riddle of existence (see vv. 13-14{17-18}). It is their sense of real ascertainment, their capability of applying their judging faculties with right measure (see vv. 15-16{19-20}), that gives them the right sense of direction.
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A number of awards are presented at the annual conference dinner, notably the 'Bravo Award' for "critical thinking in the public arena", the 'Bent Spoon Award' for "the most gullible or naive reporting in the paranormal or pseudo- science area" and the 'Skeptic of the Year Award' (created in 2014). The name "Bent Spoon" is a reference to the psychic power claimed by Uri Geller.
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Ruesch was internationally known as an outspoken advocate against vivisection and other forms of animal testing. An animal lover since his childhood, he became an activist against animal testing, while living in Rome. Ruesch did not believe that medical research could benefit by using such methods. Instead, Ruesch insisted that medicine was led dangerously astray by what he saw as pseudo-science, and a fatally false methodology.
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Shupe, A. and S.E. Darnell. 2011. Agents of Discord: Deprogramming, Pseudo-Science, and the American Anticult Movement: Transaction Publishers. Deprogrammers such as Rick Ross, Steven Hassan and Carol Giambalvo were amongst the CAN referred deprogrammers."The Cult Awareness Network and the Anticult Movement: Implications for NRMs in America" (with Susan E. Darnell and Kendrick Moxon) in New Religious Movements and Religious Liberty in America.
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Sasha Huber (born 1975) is a contemporary artist living and working in Helsinki, Finland. Her work deals with colonial and post colonial relationships negotiated by African and Caribbean diasporas. She uses photography, moving image, site specific performance, landscape, research, and collaboration to explore individual and collective performances of colonial- era pseudo science, racial categorization, migration within the transatlantic slave trade, memorialization, and transnational capitalism.
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New York: Routledge. p.14 Günther became an epitome of corrupt and politicized pseudo- science in post-war Germany.Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses about "Jews" in the Twenty-first Century Efraim Sicher Berghahn Books, 15 May 2013 Among the topics of his research were attempts to prove that Jewish people had an unpleasant "hereditary smell".Oisteanu, Andrei (2009) Inventing the Jew: Antisemitic Stereotypes in Romanian and Other Central-East European Cultures.
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By locating the roots of environmental politics and public policy in the construction of knowledge about nature, Dion questions the objectivity and authoritative role of the scientific voice in contemporary society, tracking how pseudo-science, social agendas and ideology creep into public discourse and knowledge production. Some of his well known works include Neukom Vivarium(2006), a permanent outdoor installation and learning lab for the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle, WA.
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The music has also been praised by Law and Gerry Anderson himself.Archer and Hearn, p. 232. Science-fiction writer and critic Christopher Mills likens The Day After Tomorrow to a version of 2001: A Space Odyssey "for kids", commenting that the plot features "wonky pseudo-science and insanely improbable coincidences". He considers the slow-motion fall into the black hole "a bit of a hoot", criticising the actors' exaggerated body movements.
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Graphemics or graphematics is the linguistic study of writing systems and their basic components, i.e. graphemes. At the beginning of the development of this area of linguistics, Ignace Gelb coined the term grammatology for this discipline; later some scholars suggested calling it graphologyUsed in this sense e.g. in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, second edition, Cambridge University Press, 1997. to match phonology, but that name is traditionally used for a pseudo-science.
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A significant part of her subscribers comprises the younger millennial generation. She is especially popular in the UK with the Guardian saying, "[for any millennial], she is the queen of fortune telling, single- handedly responsible for fuelling their obsession with all things celestial. Somehow she has managed to turn the mystical, ancient pseudo-science of astrology into a world-wide phenomenon". Miller has a celebrity following which further increased her general popularity.
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In response to hopes for a new "applied science" campus at the University of South Florida in Lakeland, university vice president Marshall Goodman expressed surprise, stating, "[intelligent design is] not science. You can't even call it pseudo- science." While unhappy with the outcome, Lofton chose not to resign over the issue. She and the other board members expressed a desire to return to the day-to-day work of running the school district.
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He wrote: "I also became worried that Currie had slighted—even overlooked!—the legitimate claims of others to the honors he bestowed on Gabriel Duval[l]. Could it be that Currie's efforts were simply pseudo-science employed in the pursuit of some predetermined plan to award Duval[l] the coveted prize without serious consideration of candidates so shrouded in obscurity that they escaped proper attention even in a contest of insignificance?"Easterbrook, 1983, at 482.
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These groups would go around assaulting other students and incorporate them into their group, often engaging in homosexual activity. Newspapers became highly critical of these bishōnen-hunting gangs, resulting in an anti-sodomy campaign throughout the country. Sexology, a growing pseudo-science in Japan at the time, was also highly critical of homosexuality. Originating from western thought, Sexology was then transferred to Japan by way of Meiji scholars, who were seeking to create a more Western Japan.
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When Helena extols her latest face cream, an unfazed Elizabeth reassures Tommy that her iconic pink packaging will always trump pseudo- science. Harry urges Helena to market her cream as two separate products: one for the daytime and one for the nighttime. Helena consents, causing her sales to surpass Elizabeth's. Tommy urges Elizabeth to give him a promotion, but she is reluctant to do so because she believes it will make her look weak ("My Secret Weapon").
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First, the skeptical community nominates the candidates for the Ockham Awards online, in the categories: blog, event / campaign, podcast, and video (until 2014). The most popular of these nominations comprise the shortlists. The shortlist winners are then contacted to provide a selection of their best work, and The Skeptic's panel of Judges makes the final decision from there. The ironic award 'for the most audacious pseudo-science', "The Rusty Razor" (introduced in 2017), is determined entirely by public vote.
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Retrieved on April 9, 2013 Searches for Noah's Ark have also been categorized as pseudohistory.Dietz, Robert S. "Ark-Eology: A Frightening Example of Pseudo-Science" in Geotimes 38:9 (Sept. 1993) p. 4. In her books, starting with The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (1921), English author Margaret Murray claimed that the witch trials in the early modern period were actually an attempt by chauvinistic Christians to annihilate a secret, pagan religion, which she claimed worshipped a Horned God.
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"A pretended or spurious science; a collection of related beliefs about the world mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method or as having the status that scientific truths now have.", from the Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition 1989. Professor Paul DeHart HurdMemorial Resolution: Paul DeHart Hurd. retrieved 8 April 2009 argued that a large part of gaining scientific literacy is "being able to distinguish science from pseudo-science such as astrology, quackery, the occult, and superstition".
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"[A] letter to Dobson, obtained exclusively by Truth Wins Out," December 14, 2006. Pruett wrote a similar letter, in which he said that Dobson "cherry-picked a phrase to shore up highly (in my view) discriminatory purposes. This practice is condemned in real science, common though it may be in pseudo-science circles. There is nothing in my longitudinal research or any of my writings to support such conclusions," and asked that FOTF not cite him again without permission.
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ResearchED, is a teacher led organisation (and, since 2017, a Private Limited Company), established in 2013 by Tom Bennett that aims to make teachers research literate and pseudo-science proof. It holds teacher conferences throughout the UK and internationally. Speakers have included Daniel T. Willingham, Daisy Christodoulou, Nick Gibb, Mark Lehain, Sam Freedman, Andrew Sabisky and Daniel Muijs. Its official publication is the quarterly journal ResearchED, published in partnership with John Catt Educational and founded in 2018.
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456 And comments in a footnote: > It is not within the scope of this paper, however, to discuss technical > criteria by which hypotheses are given high, low, or negative degrees of > confirmation. Our purpose is simply to glance at several examples of a type > of scientific activity which fails completely to conform to scientific > standards, but at the same time is the result of such intricate mental > activity that it wins temporary acceptance by many laymen insufficiently > informed to recognize the scientist's incompetence. Although there obviously > is no sharp line separating competent from incompetent research, and there > are occasions when a scientific "orthodoxy" may delay the acceptance of > novel views, the fact remains that the distance between the work of > competent scientists and the speculations of a Voliva or Velikovsky is so > great that a qualitative difference emerges which justifies the label of > "pseudo-science." Since the time of Galileo the history of pseudo-science > has been so completely outside the history of science that the two streams > touch only in the rarest of instances. p.
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Tarsis denounces Soviet psychiatry as pseudo-science and charlatanism. Among all the victims of Soviet psychiatry, Tarsis was the sole exception in the sense that he did not emphasised the 'injustice' of confining 'sane dissidents' to psychiatric hospitals and did not thereby imply that the psychiatric confinement of 'insane patients' was proper and just. In 1966, Tarsis was permitted to emigrate to the West, and was soon deprived of his Soviet citizenship. He lectured at the Leicester University and Gettysburg College.
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'His etymological gropings are reminiscent of nineteenth century pseudo-science', Alan Howard, p.820 This lack of intimate linguistic knowledge caused him to make many errors in his review of Kwakiutl texts, and Holm found Goldman's conclusions both unconvincing and disturbing.Bill Holm, 'Review of The Mouth of Heaven,' pp.72-3 Philip Drucker ended his review by challenging Goldman's insistence that all aspects of the Kwakiutl lifeway were expressive of religious belief, and judged this approach preconceived, extremist and not believable.
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The organization was founded in 1983 by Reginald Sheldrick in Phoenix, Arizona as a Hypnosis school. In its early days, the school has been called a [diploma mill] by reporters at the Arizona Republic who point to Arizona's minimal laws covering for-profit education and the pseudo-science nature of its field of study. In 2004, Southwest University moved from Arizona to Louisiana. The Louisiana Board of Regents recommended licensing the school at its committee meeting on March 26, 2014.
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Terming it "a monumental pseudo-science", Goodrick-Clarke also noted that it constituted "the masterpiece of his occult-nationalist researches". List sent a copy to the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna, but they declined to publish it. In 1903 List published an article in Die Gnosis magazine, which reflected a clear influence from the ideas of the Theosophical Society. List had occasionally used the title of von in his name from 1903 onward, but began using it permanently in 1907.
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The Elfin Ship (1982) is a fantasy novel by American writer James Blaylock, his first published book. It is the first of three fantasies by Blaylock about a world peopled by elves, dwarves, goblins, and humans, as well as a smattering of wizards, witches, and other beings. The world has magic well as pseudo-science. Scientific explanation depends on such tongue-in-cheek concepts as The Five Standard Shapes, The Three Major Urges, and The Six Links of Bestial Sciences.
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The National Resource Development and Economic Council was formed in the mid 1980s and had become institutionalized as a special unit within CAN by 1987.Shupe, A. and S.E. Darnell. 2011. Agents of Discord: Deprogramming, Pseudo-Science, and the American Anticult Movement: Transaction Publishers. The unit's role was to provide referrals to deprogrammers in exchange for a 'kickback' – either in cash or in the form of a tax deductible "donation" or "commissions" which were then funneled back to national CAN headquarters.
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In 2016, the club initiated a new youth project called "Reclaim Economics". With this project they support students, activists, intellectuals, artists, video-makers, teachers, professors and others to "shift the teaching of economics away from the mathematical pseudo- science it has become." On 14 March 2019, the Club of Rome issued an official statement in support of Greta Thunberg and the school strikes for climate, urging governments across the world to respond to this call for action and cut global carbon emissions.
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Naked Science is an American documentary television series that premiered in 2004 on the National Geographic Channel and ran through November 2011. The program featured various subjects related to science and technology. Some of the views expressed might be considered fringe or pseudo-science, and some of the scientists may present opinions which have not been properly peer-reviewed or are not widely accepted within their scientific communities, in particular on topics such as Bermuda Triangle or Atlantis for example.
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Deputy Editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal Matthew Stanbrook denounced the claims made by the practitioners: "That is pseudo- science that uses a scientific word that doesn't mean what density means. That makes absolutely no sense, to talk about the density of cells not being optimal. It makes even less sense to put forward the idea that through the manipulation involving touching, one could set the density of cells to an optimum level." McGill University's Office for Science and Society also identifies correactology as a pseudoscience.
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The same year, the group also contributed on two tracks on the album Magic Handshake by the Norwegian space-rock band Seid. In 2016, the group released the album Are You Part of Some Kind of Cult?, a concept album about an island of pseudo-science worshippers, inspired by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. In 2017, Professor Waffel released a solo album, Assemblages, constructed around tiny sampled fragments of classical modernist and ethnic music, field recordings, foley and live performances on a number of acoustic and electronic instruments.
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The anchor point of > science is practice; the quest of scientific workers is truth. True science > has no fear, and no force can stop it. In the past, some people have used > their power to criticise research on Extraordinary Powers as 'idealist > pseudo-science'. Now that the State Commission for Science and Technology > has authorised the establishment of our Somatic Science Research Society, it > is not a victory of 'idealism', but it is a victory of true materialism and > Marxism, it is a victory of science.
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The Signification of Moles, illustration of an 18th-century chapbook. Moleosophy or moleomancy is a technique of divination and fortune telling based upon the observation and interpretation of bodily marks — primarily those of the melanocytic nevus condition (i.e. moles). Although divination by moles, birthmarks and blemishes has been practiced in many societies throughout history, it has never achieved the status of dream divination, astrology, or even palmistry. As such, it has generally been classed a species of superstition or folklore, rather than a pseudo-science.
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Solve evolved into MIT's open innovation platform: today, Solve solicits solutions to a series of new challenges every year, and hosts events in different cities where innovators present their ideas. He has engaged in a long-running dispute with Aubrey de Grey regarding de Grey's assertion that it will be possible to reverse ageing. Pontin has written that he considers some of de Grey's strategies to be pseudo-science; de Grey has responded vigorously, and the dispute has persisted for at least a decade.
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" He accused Plimer of having "done an enormous disservice to science, and the dedicated scientists who are trying to understand climate and the influence of humans, by publishing this book. It is not "merely" atmospheric scientists that would have to be wrong for Plimer to be right. It would require a rewriting of biology, geology, physics, oceanography, astronomy and statistics. Plimer's book deserves to languish on the shelves along with similar pseudo-science such as the writings of Immanuel Velikovsky and Erich von Däniken.
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The album opens with "Kielbasa", a song discussing anal sex. The previously popular pseudo-science book, Dianetics is also mentioned, as well as Krishna. "Dio" is a tribute to Ronnie James Dio that calls for the singer to "pass the torch" on to Tenacious D. Black has said that this was a compliment as they could have asked others for the torch but "ultimately, we were bestowing an honor upon him." Reportedly, Dio approved of the song and let Tenacious D appear in the video for his single, "Push".
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The Disappearing Dwarf (1983) is a fantasy novel by American writer James Blaylock, his second published book and the second of the trilogy that started with The Elfin Ship. The characters are mostly drawn from the first book, while the plot revolves around another encounter with the villain Selznak. As before, the world has magic well as pseudo-science, and scientific explanation depends on tongue-in-cheek scientific concepts. The story is set in a world in which human beings live alongside elves, dwarves, goblins, and other fanciful beings including linkmen, a kind of gnome.
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This view of the negro "race" was backed by pseudo-science. The leading researcher was Dr. Samuel A. Cartwright, inventor of the mental illnesses of drapetomania—the desire of a slave to run away—and dysaesthesia aethiopica—"rascality", cured by whipping. The Medical Association of Louisiana set up a committee, of which he was chair, to investigate "The Diseases and Physical Peculiarities of the Negro Race". Their report, first delivered to the Medical Association in an address, was published in their journal, and then reprinted in part in the widely circulated DeBow's Review.
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" Stephan Thernstrom, Winthrop professor of history at Harvard, and Abigail Thernstrom, political scientist and the vice chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, wrote that "[Wright] contended that blacks and whites had completely different brain structures, one left- dominant, the other right-dominant. This is nothing more than an updated version of the pseudo-science once used to defend segregation in the Jim Crow South". They also wrote: "clearly, Rev. Wright does not speak for mainstream black churches — and he has done them a gross disservice by claiming to do so.
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The "Holocaust revisionist" arguments published by the IHR are not regarded as serious historical research by mainstream historians and academics; rather, they are regarded as works of pseudo-science aimed at proving that the Holocaust did not happen. The editorial board of one of the leading historical journals, The Journal of American History, wrote, "We all abhor, on both moral and scholarly grounds, the substantive arguments of the Institute for Historical Review. We reject their claims to be taken seriously as historians."Journal of American History, Vol 80, No. 3, p. 1213.
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According to the New Statesman, the "journal Intelligence is one of the most respected in its field" but has allowed its reputation "to be used to launder or legitimate racist pseudo-science". It has been criticized for having included on its editorial board biochemist Gerhard Meisenberg and psychologist Richard Lynn, both of whom are supporters of eugenics and scientific racism. The editor-in-chief of the journal defended their involvement on the basis of academic freedom. Lynn and Meisenberg no longer serve in the editorial board as of 2018.
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Along the way, he also accumulated an extensive personal library. It consisted of about a thousand volumes advocating various unorthodox ideas: hollow-earth, geocentricity, creationism, Velikovskyism, perpetual motion, racism, anti-semitism, anti- Catholicism, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster, flying saucers, bizarre religions, and so forth, as well as the world's most extensive collection of 19th and 20th century flat-earth literature. Much of this collection is now housed at the University of Wisconsin at Madison in the Special Collections library as the Robert Schadewald Collection on Pseudo-Science.
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L'Asthénie primitive, Paris, no 413 (Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1910-1911). He became director of a health center in Saint-Cloud, where he took care of Anatole France, a center owned by Anthippe Sevastos, the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle's sister-in-law, whom Couchoud ended up marrying (May 1918). In 1922, Couchoud became a doctor at the leading Cochin hospital in Paris. When the French writer Jules Romain started conducting experiments on "extra-retinal vision" (1917), criticisms of this pseudo-science obliged him to interrupt his "research" until 1922.
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10-11 The Journal of the American Medical Association, noted in 1918: > In brief, the case against the so-called Swoboda System may be summed up by > saying that "Conscious Evolution" is a meaningless phrase whose apparent use > is to obtain money by misleading and deceiving the public, that the Swoboda > exercises are new or original; that the entire Swoboda scheme is quackery of > the "physical culture" type.Anonymous. (1918). Swoboda's "Conscious > Evolution": Quackery and Pseudo-Science of the Physical Culture Type. > Journal of the American Medical Association 70 (1): 799-802.
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In this series, presented as an extension and continuation of the first, the Tom Swift of the original series is now the CEO of Swift Enterprises, a four-mile-square enclosed facility where inventions are conceived and manufactured. Tom's son, Tom Swift, Jr., is now the primary inventive genius of the family. Stratemeyer Syndicate employee Andrew Svenson described the new series as based "on scientific fact and probability, whereas the old Toms were in the main adventure stories mixed with pseudo-science".Andrew Svenson, quoted in Dizer (1982), 45.
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The developments of racial pseudo-science and modernization resulted in anti-Romani state interventions, carried out by both the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. In 1899, the Imperial Police Headquarters in Munich established the Information Services on Romani by the Security Police. Its purpose was to keep records (identification cards, fingerprints, photographs, etc.) and continuous surveillance on the Roma community. Roma in the Weimar Republic were forbidden from entering public swimming pools, parks, and other recreational areas, and depicted throughout Germany and Europe as criminals and spies.
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A major goal was to end "amalgamation" by racial intermarriage. Members claimed also to support Anglo-Saxon ideas of fair play. Later that fall, a state convention of club members was to be held in Richmond."Anglo-Saxon Club Founds Two Posts in Community", The Cavalier Daily (UVA), 5 October 1923, accessed 14 April 2010 The Virginia assembly's 21st-century explanation for the laws summarizes their development: > The now-discredited pseudo-science of eugenics was based on theories first > propounded in England by Francis Galton, the cousin and disciple of famed > biologist Charles Darwin.
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Gare, A., Soviet Environmentalism: The Path Not Taken, in Benton, E. (ed.) The Greening of Marxism, 1996 The "pre- revolutionary environmental movement", encouraged by the revolutionary scientist Aleksandr Bogdanov and the Proletkul't organisation, made efforts to "integrate production with natural laws and limits" in the first decade of Soviet rule, before Joseph Stalin attacked ecologists and the science of ecology and the Soviet Union fell into the pseudo-science of the state biologist Trofim Lysenko, who "set about to rearrange the Russian map" in ignorance of environmental limits.
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Another track for artistic expression developed with the creation of Bailey's alter ego Dr. George Gladstone, beginning in 1969. Initially, the works blended performance and creations based on pseudo-science and personal mythologies. Works included the creation of fossilized remains (usually ceramic or from earth materials) and the classification of a new time period, the Pre-Credulous Era, the source of such Kaolithic curiosities as a cyclops skull and a Bigfoot skeleton. Dressed in a lab coat and pith helmet, Bailey as Dr. Gladstone performed excavations and staged performances and pranks.
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Abbé Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (8 September 1814 - 8 January 1874) was a noted French writer, ethnographer, historian archaeologist, and Catholic priest. He became a specialist in Mesoamerican studies, travelling extensively in the region. His writings, publications, and recovery of historical documents contributed much to knowledge of the region's languages, writing, history and culture, particularly those of the Maya and Aztec civilizations. However, his speculations concerning relationships between the ancient Maya and the lost continent of Atlantis inspired Ignatius L. Donnelly and encouraged the pseudo-science of Mayanism.
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In 2013, Entropy published a review paper saying glyphosate may be the most important factor in the development of obesity, depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, cancer, and infertility. The paper does not contain any primary research results. It was criticized as pseudo-science by the science magazine Discover and Jeffrey Beall, founder of Beall's List of predatory open-access publishers, said "Will MDPI publish anything for money?". In response to the controversy, the editors of Entropy added an "Expression of Concern" to the article's frontmatter.
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In 2005 Ecoworld NZ Ltd was fined $60,000 and ordered to pay $68,000 in compensation to consumers that bought their Grander Living Water units. The judge said that the promotional material for these units "contained inconsistencies, quackery and pseudo-science.". In 2006, the Viennese Oberlandesgericht ruled that the claim that seriously ill people may forgo medical treatment and trust in the effects of the revitalized water does not constitute fraud because the vendor guarantees a right of return. They also ruled that Grander's revitalized water may adequately be described as "esoteric nonsense".
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Since the 1960s, members of the Earth Mysteries movement and other esoteric traditions have commonly believed that such ley lines demarcate "earth energies" and serve as guides for alien spacecraft. Archaeologists and scientists regard ley lines as an example of pseudo-archaeology and pseudo-science. The idea of "leys" as straight tracks across the landscape was put forward by the English antiquarian Alfred Watkins in the 1920s, particularly in his book The Old Straight Track. He argued that straight lines could be drawn between various historic structures and that these represented trade routes created by ancient British societies.
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A detailed description of these events was published by Lang in "Academia, Journalism, and Politics: A Case Study: The Huntington Case" which occupies the first 222 pages of his 1998 book Challenges. Lang was inspired by the writings of mathematician Neal Koblitz, who accused Huntington of misusing mathematics and engaging in pseudo-science. Lang claimed that Huntington distorted the historical record and used pseudo- mathematics to make his conclusions seem convincing. As an example he used Huntington's 1968 book Political Order in Changing Societies, in which Huntington argued that South Africa was a "satisfied society" in the 1960s.
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The Komagata Maru and HMCS Rainbow At the time that BC was settled the ideology of the British Empire, and of many of its colonial settlers was based on an assumption of superiority, often racial superiority based on the pseudo-science of Race. Racism and a desire to create a white colony were widespread. The scientific thinking of Charles Darwin was used to develop a theory of the races, which is today completely discredited - came to be known as Social Darwinism. Under the ideology of Social Darwinism a series of restrictive laws were passed, by both federal and provincial levels of government.
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The episode received mixed reviews. Daniel Martin, writing for The Guardian on guardian.co.uk, described it as "beautifully shot" and went on to write: "the way every part of the vampire mythos was explained away by Who pseudo-science was delightful; the stand-off between the Doctor and Rosanna was beautifully played; the dialogue as cracking as you'd expect from Whithouse...and the climactic shot of the Doctor scaling the tower in the rain was just the correct level of broad brushstroke". SFX reviewer David Bradley also reacted positively, giving the episode four out of five stars.
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For philosophers Silvio Funtowicz and Jerome R. Ravetz "pseudo-science may be defined as one where the uncertainty of its inputs must be suppressed, lest they render its outputs totally indeterminate". The definition, in the book Uncertainty and Quality in Science for Policy (p. 54), alludes to the loss of craft skills in handling quantitative information, and to the bad practice of achieving precision in prediction (inference) only at the expenses of ignoring uncertainty in the input which was used to formulate the prediction. This use of the term is common among practitioners of post-normal science.
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In 1934, the New York Times gave the film a positive review stating "So well is this mixture of pseudo science, love and near-love photographed that persons ignorant of German need have no fear of inability to follow the action of "Gold" and "the audience is kept interested in the steps leading up to the dénouement, despite the inordinate length of the film." Wonder Stories praised Gold as "a masterful scientifilm fantasy"."Movie Review", Wonder Stories, February 1935, p.1147 Film Daily declared the film to be an "Entertaining drama [...] has good cast and is essentially interesting form the technical angle.
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These public declarations of obedience proved insufficient. In the closing speech Snezhnevsky, the lead author of the Session's policy report, stated that the accused psychiatrists "have not disarmed themselves and continue to remain in the old anti-Pavlovian positions", thereby causing "grave damage to the Soviet psychiatric research and practice". The vice president of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences accused them of "diligently worshipping the dirty source of American pseudo-science". Those who articulated these accusations at the Joint Session – among them Irina Strelchuk, Vasily Banshchikov, Oleg Kerbikov, and Snezhnevsky – were distinguished by their careerist ambition and fear for their own positions.
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The Moscow, Leningrad, Ukrainian, Georgian, and Armenian schools of neuroscience and neurophysiology were damaged for a period due to this loss of personnel. The Joint Session ravaged productive research in neurosciences and psychiatry for years to come. Pseudo-science took control. Following a previous joint session of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (28 June–4 July 1950) and the 10-15 October 1951 joint session of the Presidium of the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Board of the All-Union Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists, Snezhnevky's school was given the leading role.
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Caulfield has published numerous articles in academic journals and popular media on topics related to ethics and the effect of media hype on medical research."Healthy Skeptic André Picard eschews the hype, pandering and pseudo-science that plague his beat". Ryerson Review of Journalism, Elena Gritzan — April 6, 2016 He is the editor for the Health Law Journal and Health Law Review. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences He is a member of the Task Force on Ethics Reform at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
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After leaving London he was assigned the office of Counsel and Press Officer (later Cultural Attaché) to the Romanian Embassy in Portugal,Biografie, in Handoca; Nastasă, p.442Cătălin Avramescu, "Citim una, înţelegem alta" ("We Read One Thing and Understand Another") , in Dilema Veche, Vol. III, August 2006; retrieved January 28, 2008 Michael Löwy, Review of Daniel Dubuisson, Impostures et pseudo-science. L'œuvre de Mircea Eliade, in Archives de Science Sociale et Religion, 132 (2005) ; retrieved January 22, 2008 where he was kept on as diplomat by the National Legionary State (the Iron Guard government) and, ultimately, by Ion Antonescu's regime.
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London: Pimlico, p. 657. Historically, immigration policy had been based on economic arguments, but new research suggests eugenics as influencing public opinion on admission criteria. This change towards racial scientific theory was evident in the success of Madison Grant's works which argued that the old immigrant races were in danger of being overtaken by inferior races, particularly Southern and Eastern Europeans. Similarly, the work of Sir Francis Galton on advocating for Eugenics found heightened interest and readership during the late 1800s, reflecting the growth of racial pseudo- science based ideas amongst the American public at the time.
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Since September 1999 he has been the Editor-in-Chief of Theoria, the only international, peer-reviewed, philosophy journal published in Sweden. He was the founding chairperson of the Swedish Skeptics (Vetenskap och Folkbildning), and is still a board member and editor of the organisation’s journal Folkvett. Hansson has criticized anthroposophy as a pseudo-science. According to the original publication of the article in Swedish (Folkvett nr 3/2004.), it was written in response to criticism of the Swedish branch of the CSICOP for its publication the previous year of a critical anthology on anthroposophy as being repeatedly unreliable.
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Heal has received criticism by reviewers for using individuals to produce an "informercial" and promoting pseudo-science. John Defore wrote in The Hollywood Reporter that "the general theme is a belief that most modern pharmaceuticals and the doctors who rely on them are ineffective at best, harmful at worst", and that the film does not have a good command of science. He states that viewers interested in the topic of alternative medicine should seek films with a narrower scope. He describes the directing as "committing the usual newbie-docmaker sin of framing this fact-gathering exercise as her personal journey", adding that "Noonan doubles down in sometimes silly ways".
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Advancing a number of examples from everyday practice of football and carpentry and non- scientific scholarship such as literary criticism and philosophy, he saw the question of whether a belief is well-founded or not to be more practically and philosophically significant than whether it is scientific or not. In his judgment, the demarcation between science and non-science was a pseudo-problem that would best be replaced by focusing on the distinction between reliable and unreliable knowledge, without bothering to ask whether that knowledge is scientific or not. He would consign phrases like "pseudo-science" or "unscientific" to the rhetoric of politicians or sociologists.
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Sanders p. 65. which he finished in the autumn of 1930. In this novel, he took pains to avoid the scientific impossibilities which had bothered some readers of the Skylark novels.Sanders p. 65. The book does, however, have significant scientific implausibilities, for example the breathable atmosphere on Saturn and some of Jupiter and its satellites. Even in 1938, after he had written Galactic Patrol, Smith considered it his finest work; he later said of it, "This was really scientific fiction; not, like the Skylarks, pseudo- science";Sheridan p. 3 and even at the end of his career, he considered it his only work of true science fiction.
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The Seventh-day Adventist church was involved with Colin Cook's Homosexuals Anonymous in the 1980s. Some independent adventist ministries such as 3ABN and Amazing Facts have been supporting a ministry known as Coming out Ministries, run by a number of ex- gay people, including Michael Carducci and Wayne Blakely, who have now been celibate for a number of years, and a pastor who is now in a heterosexual marriage, Ron Woolsey. Coming out ministries is a conversion therapy ministry. They claim to help deliver people from homosexuality, which is a form of so called "pseudo-science" that has been discredited by health organizations such as the American Psychological Association , the American Academy of Pediatrics, and other health organizations.
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The Massachusetts Psychiatric Society also opposed the bill, believing that it would interfere with the doctor-patient relationship. On 5 October 2006, National Mental Health Screening Day, the CCHR picketed outside of Riverside Community Care in Wakefield, Massachusetts, holding a protest rally against mental health screening. According to journalist Gary Band in the Wakefield Observer, "The protest fell somewhat flat because Riverside has not conducted these screenings since 2001." According to a report from the National Center for Biotechnology Information the CCHR has uncovered real cases of faulty psychiatric care, which gave them some credibility; conversely, the CCHR has been accused of using pseudo-science and false information to disingenuously validate their claims .
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In 2008, lawyers hired by the one- man company Nemesysco threatened with legal actions unless the article "Charlatanry in forensic speech science", published in International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law in 2007, was withdrawn. The publisher Equinox decided to withdraw the article from the online version of the magazine, and offered the company to publish a letter in the journal, an offer they never took. In the article, a commercial product sold by the company was criticized as based on pseudo-science, and the company was not given the chance to comment before the article was published. The withdrawal resulted in criticism of the publisher for not understanding how to manage a scientific journal.
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On the official promoting of her book, she claimed that during her tenure, when she asked foreign advisors why they pushed so hard for the reform of Serbian education, she got answer that they need plumbers, not educated people (Politika newspapers, June 13, 2006, page 10). In an interview in November 2019, professor Milan M. Ćirković was discussing pseudo-science. He mentioned Čolić's short ministerial stint, adding that because of her removal of Darwinism, she was "depicted as a heroine in the magazines and books of the global creationist movement". Čolić responded with a letter, underlining Ćirković's claim that some pseudoscience are life threatening, though he specifically used it for other movements like pseudo-medicine, quackery and antivaxers.
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Haack claims that quality inquiry can be done by many, however the scientific community has numerous tools or helps that have brought many benefits to mankind, and which help foster science's credibility. These tools and helps may not be available to those engaged in individual inquiry. When asked about how she responds to paranormal or supernatural claims, Haack indicates supporters of such claims have a heavy burden of proof. Rather than labelling such claims as pseudo- science, she admits these things can be "pretty bad stuff" and if they are to be considered seriously, they would need extraordinary evidence, and that such evidence should fit with the best warranted scientific theory about how things are.
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Philological studies at the University of Pennsylvania were focused mainly on 19th-century theories and methods, through which Pound "floundered somewhat ineffectually" as a graduate student. This trend, against which Pound eventually rebelled, focused on the study of works from a single background to construct national identities and literary canons, "cultural legacies". These legacies excluded those who had lost the political battles which shaped the nation, removing them and their beliefs from the constructed identity. Carlos Riobó of Bard College characterizes this philology as a pseudo-science which ultimately worked to neatly demarcate "the precariously unified, modern culture from the old fractious one by adducing textual proof of cultural and linguistic origins".
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Google Scholar strives to include as many journals as possible, including predatory journals, which "have polluted the global scientific record with pseudo- science, a record that Google Scholar dutifully and perhaps blindly includes in its central index." Google Scholar does not publish a list of journals crawled or publishers included, and the frequency of its updates is uncertain. Bibliometric evidence suggests Google Scholar's coverage of the sciences and social sciences is competitive with other academic databases; however as of 2017, Scholar's coverage of the arts and humanities has not been investigated empirically and Scholar's utility for disciplines in these fields remains ambiguous. Especially early on, some publishers did not allow Scholar to crawl their journals.
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But unless we're after cheap laughs, our hope when we pick up a book like this is that the author will, against the odds, build a careful, reasonable and convincing case. Cook isn't that author". Kleiner criticized Cook's work as "ferreting out minor inconsistencies and odd, ambiguous details which he tries to puff up into proof", characterized the process of evaluating Cook's claims as "untangling science from pseudo-science", and concluded that "what is instructive about the book is the insight we get into how conspiracy theories seduce otherwise reasonable people". Skeptical author Robert Sheaffer criticized Cook's book as "a classic example of how to spin an exciting yarn based on almost nothing.
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At the level of content, we must emphasize that this text recontextualizes the familiar myth of a primaeval flood with fabulations about life on other planets; such inventions typically flourish in writing that draws on pseudo-science and does not aim for serious literary goals; here, however, the memes serve the fictive-literary purposes of this particular epic. Concerning ideology, the author uses every opportunity to show why these aliens in general and certain terrestrial humans in particular are committed to peaceful practices and the avoidance of violence. The aliens are of course shown using scientific progress in order to enjoy a high standard of living. The inventions that the aliens use reminds us of science fiction films.
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However, his translation would later inspire Augustus Le Plongeon's pseudo-science and speculation about the lost continent of Mu. The name Mu was actually used first by Brasseur de Bourbourg. A few years later, another Maya codex was found possessed by another collector, which became known as the Codex Cortesianus (in the belief that it had been in the possession of Hernán Cortés). When Léon de Rosny examined it later, he determined that it was actually a part of the Troano codex, the two parts having been separated at some indeterminate time in the past. The two parts were later rejoined and are known collectively as the Codex Madrid or Tro- Cortesianus; they remain displayed in Madrid.
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In Pope's poem, women who are full of spleen and vanity turn into sylphs when they die because their spirits are too full of dark vapors to ascend to the skies. Belinda, the heroine of Pope's poem, is attended by a small army of sylphs, who foster her vanity and guard her beauty. The poem is a parody of Paracelsian ideas, inasmuch as Pope imitates the pseudo-science of alchemy to explain the seriousness with which vain women approach the dressing room. In a slight parody of the divine battle in Pope's Rape of the Lock, when the Baron of the poem attempts to cut a lock of Belinda's hair, the sylphs interpose their airy bodies between the blades of the scissors (to no effect whatsoever).
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Rowan Bayne, a British psychologist who has written several studies on graphology, summarized his view of the appeal of graphology: "[i]t's very seductive because at a very crude level someone who is neat and well behaved tends to have neat handwriting", adding that the practice is "useless... absolutely hopeless". The British Psychological Society ranks graphology alongside astrology, giving them both "zero validity". Graphology was also dismissed as a pseudo-science by the skeptic James Randi in 1991. In his May 21, 2013 Skeptoid podcast episode titled "All About Graphology," scientific skeptic author Brian Dunning reports: > In his book The Write Stuff, Barry Beyerstein summarized the work of > Geoffrey Dean, who performed probably the most extensive literature survey > of graphology ever done.
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Expanded exploration and study of groups throughout the world through archeology and the new field of anthropology in the late 19th century led to a revival or reworking of accounts of the Lost Tribes. For instance, because archeological finds of the Mississippian culture's complex earthwork mounds seemed beyond the skills of the Native American cultures known to European Americans at the time of their discovery, it was theorized that the ancient civilizations involved in the mounds' construction were linked to the Lost Tribes. They tried to fit new information into a biblical construct. However, the earthworks across North America have been conclusively linked to various Native groups, and the archaeologists now consider the theory of non- Native origin to be pseudo-science.
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Individuals in ward No. 7 are not cured, but persistently maimed; the hospital is a jail and the doctors are gaolers and police spies. Most doctors know nothing about psychiatry, but make diagnoses arbitrarily and give all patients the same medication — an algogenic injection or the anti-psychotic drug Aminazin known in the USA under trade name Thorazine. Tarsis denounces Soviet psychiatry as pseudo-science and charlatanism and writes that, firstly, it has pretenses of curing the sickness of men's souls, but denies the existence of the soul; secondly, since there is no satisfactory definition of mental health, there can be no acceptable definition of mental disease in Soviet society. In 1966, Tarsis was permitted to emigrate to the West, and was soon deprived of his Soviet citizenship.
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During the Joint Session, scientists falsely acknowledged their 'wrongdoings' and gave up their beliefs, out of fear. But in the closing speech, the lead author of the policy report Andrei Snezhnevsky stated that they "have not disarmed themselves and continue to remain in the old anti-Pavlovian positions", thereby causing "grave damage to the Soviet scientific and practical psychiatry", and the vice president of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences accused them that they "diligently fall down to the dirty source of American pseudo-science". The fear and less than noble ambitions of the accusers including Irina Strelchuk, Vasily Banshchikov, Oleg Kerbikov, and Andrei Snezhnevsky were also likely to make them serve in the role of inquisitors. Not surprisingly, many of them were advanced and appointed to leadership positions shortly after the session.
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Byzantine literature is often classified in five groups: historians and annalists, encyclopaedists (Patriarch Photios, Michael Psellus, and Michael Choniates are regarded as the greatest encyclopaedists of Byzantium) and essayists, and writers of secular poetry. The only genuine heroic epic of the Byzantines is the Digenis Acritas. The remaining two groups include the new literary species: ecclesiastical and theological literature, and popular poetry.. Of the approximately two to three thousand volumes of Byzantine literature that survive, only 330 consist of secular poetry, history, science and pseudo- science. While the most flourishing period of the secular literature of Byzantium runs from the 9th to the 12th century, its religious literature (sermons, liturgical books and poetry, theology, devotional treatises, etc.) developed much earlier with Romanos the Melodist being its most prominent representative.
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Linda Gottfredson (2006) has argued that thousands of studies support the importance of intelligence quotient (IQ) in predicting school and job performance, and numerous other life outcomes. In contrast, empirical support for non-g intelligences is either lacking or very poor. She argued that despite this, the ideas of multiple non-g intelligences are very attractive to many due to the suggestion that everyone can be smart in some way. A critical review of MI theory argues that there is little empirical evidence to support it: The same review presents evidence to demonstrate that cognitive neuroscience research does not support the theory of multiple intelligences: The theory of multiple intelligences is sometimes cited as an example of pseudoscience because it lacks empirical evidence or falsifiability,Multiple Intelligences and pseudo-science Van der Ploeg, 2016. academia.
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One of the email, for example, stated, "Scientists have been perfectly willing to let these people alone in their churches, but now it looks like these people are coming out and invading our schools, biology classes, museums and now our professional journals. These people to my mind are only a scale up on the fundies of a more destructive kind in other parts of the world. Depressing. Oh, if we only still had Steve Gould to lead the counter-attack".Sternberg, Office of Special Counsel "Pre-Closure Letter" Pim Van Meurs and other critics observed that the Office of Special Counsel lacked jurisdiction over the matter and so his claim was unlikely to proceed,Comment, The Pseudo-Science Amicus Brief in Kitzmiller , Pim Van Meurs, The Panda's Thumb.
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Norm R. Allen, Jr., former director of African Americans for Humanism, calls black nationalism a "strange mixture of profound thought and patent nonsense". > On the one hand, Reactionary Black Nationalists (RBNs) advocate self-love, > self-respect, self-acceptance, self-help, pride, unity, and so forth - much > like the right-wingers who promote "traditional family values." But - also > like the holier-than-thou right-wingers - RBNs promote bigotry, intolerance, > hatred, sexism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, pseudo-science, irrationality, > dogmatic historical revisionism, violence, and so forth. Allen further criticizes black nationalists' strong "attraction for hardened prisoners and ex-cons", their encouragement of violence when other African- American individuals or groups are branded as "Toms," traitors, or "sellouts", the blatantly sexist stance and the similarities to white supremacist ideologies: > Many RBNs routinely preach hate.
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The decision, seen as supporting academic freedom, was welcomed by the Union of Concerned Scientists. In October 2010, Mann wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post in which he described several past, present and projected attacks on climate science and scientists by politicians, drawing a link between them and "the pseudo-science that questioned the link between smoking cigarettes and lung cancer, and the false claims questioning the science of acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer." Saying they were "not good-faith questioning of scientific research [but] anti-science", he called for all his fellow scientists to stand against the attacks. Mann was a supporter of Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe's successful 2013 campaign for governor of Virginia; in that election, Cuccinelli was the Republican candidate.
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Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev, 1936; the death of Stalin (right) and accession of Khrushchev (left) in 1953, alongside the following political thaw, allowed cybernetics to be legitimised in the Soviet Union. The reformed academic culture of the Soviet Union, after the death of Stalin and reforms of the Khrushchev era, allowed cybernetics to tear down its previous ideological criticisms and redeem itself in the public view. To Soviet scientists, cybernetics emerged as possible vector of escape from the ideological traps of Stalinism, replacing it with the computational objectivity of cybernetics. Military computer scientist Anatoly Kitov recalled stumbling onto Cybernetics in the secret library of the Special Construction Bureau and realising instantly, cybernetics was "not a bourgeois pseudo-science, as official publications considered it at the time, but the opposite - a serious, important science".
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The two met when Gordon was hired to film a four-part adaptation of Haldeman's novel The Forever War, but when funding for the project was cut, Gordon instead directed a stage adaptation of the book, which Haldeman also wrote. Two years later, Gordon asked Haldeman to work on a science fiction adaptation of the Iliad; the idea would form the basis for what eventually became Robot Jox. Haldeman claimed his and Gordon's visions for the film clashed: The former wanted a dramatic, serious science fiction film while the latter wanted a more audience-friendly, special effects-driven action film with stereotypical characters and stylized pseudo-science. In a one-and-a-half-page outline, Gordon inserted other elements into the plot, including the film's Cold War-era themes.
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Dr. C. Mark Palmer of Ponca City, Oklahoma rebutted the theory that sweating would clear out drugs, stating that "No matter how much a patient were made to sweat, it could not significantly increase his clearing of most drugs." After reviewing materials published by Narconon, University of Oklahoma biochemistry professor Bruce Roe described the program as "a scam" based on "half-truths and pseudo- science." In a 1988 report, Dr. Ronald E. Gots, a toxicology expert from Bethesda, Maryland, called the regimen "quackery", and noted that "no recognized body of toxicologists, no department of occupational medicine, nor any governmental agencies endorse or recommend such treatment." In 1991, the Board of Mental Health in Oklahoma refused to certify the program for use in a Narconon facility on the grounds of potential danger from its high vitamin and mineral doses.
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According to the demarcation criterion of pseudoscience proposed by Lakatos, a theory is pseudoscientific if it fails to make any novel predictions of previously unknown phenomena or its predictions were mostly falsified, in contrast with scientific theories, which predict novel fact(s).See/hear Lakatos's 1973 Open University BBC Radio talk Science and Pseudoscience at his LSE website at www.lse.ac.uk/lakatos Progressive scientific theories are those which have their novel facts confirmed and degenerate scientific theories, which can degenerate so much they become pseudo-science, are those whose predictions of novel facts are refuted. As he put it: "A given fact is explained scientifically only if a new fact is predicted with it....The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one." See pages 34–5 of The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes, 1978.
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In his speech at the conference "Rethinking Armenian Studies: Past, Present, and Future" on October 4, 2002 at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, Russell cautioned the audience against the "conspiracy theories, xenophobia, and ultra-nationalist pseudo-science [which] have come increasingly into the mainstream of Armenology in the Armenian Republic" and which have found sympathetic outlets in some of the diasporic press, where paranoia and anti- Semitism have been notably present. "It is a task of the community to set its house in order because these trends are in the end suicidal," he warned. Although Prof. Russell declines to debate such issues, he stated that "I will help with my pen what I still believe to be the great majority of Armenians to expose and destroy the sort of people who are not only dragging our field, but possibly the community itself into dangerous territory".
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In this, the milieu is interested in developing unified world views to discover the nature of the divine and establish a scientific basis for religious belief. Figures in the New Age movement—most notably Fritjof Capra in his The Tao of Physics (1975) and Gary Zukav in The Dancing Wu Li Masters (1979)—have drawn parallels between theories in the New Physics and traditional forms of mysticism, thus arguing that ancient religious ideas are now being proven by contemporary science. Many New Agers have adopted James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis that the Earth acts akin to a single living organism, although have expanded this idea to include the idea that the Earth has consciousness and intelligence. Despite New Agers' appeals to science, most of the academic and scientific establishments dismiss "New Age science" as pseudo-science, or at best existing in part on the fringes of genuine scientific research.
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After the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Fei played an important role in national intellectual and ideological life, and before long he began to hold a growing number of political positions. He was made vice president in 1951 of the Central Institute for Nationalities in Beijing (today, Minzu University of China), and in 1954 attended the First National People's Congress as a member of the Nationalities Affairs Commission. Soon thereafter, however, departments of sociology were eliminated (as a "bourgeois pseudo-science"). Fei no longer taught, and published less and less. During the “Hundred Flowers” thaw of 1956–57, he began to speak out again, cautiously suggesting the restoration of sociology. But then the climate suddenly changed with the “Anti-Rightist Movement.” In 1957, Fei stood with head bowed before countless assemblies to confess his “crimes toward the people.” citation? Hundreds of articles attacked him, not a few by colleagues, some viciously dishonest.
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The conventional path to a life-long career in university-level education in West Germany was through a "Habilitation" (post-doctoral) degree, and during her five years working as an assistant for Sieverts awareness of this gap in her qualifications became increasingly pressing. She faced resistance to the idea both (she became convinced) on account of her gender and because Criminology, her speciality, had not yet been rehabilitated as an independent subject in its own right among the Hamburg academic community. It had been effectively downgraded in Germany during the 1940s, atrophied both by the simplistic inflexibility of National Socialist pseudo-science and by the enforced emigration, during the 1930s, of many of Germany's leading criminologists, most of whom seem to have ended up in the United States of America. By the later 1950s - partly as a result of the efforts of Rudolf Sieverts and his team - Criminology had regained a measure of academic respectability.
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161) Gould's Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle (first published in 1987) "locates the development of our conception of deep history in its cultural and intellectual context without any suggestion that that cultural context perverted the development of geology", whereas "in Wonderful Life, Gould argued that the Burgess Shale fauna were misunderstood because they were interpreted through the ideology of their discoverer". (p. 162) The Mismeasure of Man is Gould's most famous work on the themes of socio-cultural interests leading to bad science, pseudo-science, racist and sexist science, where "a particular ideological context led to a warped and distorted appreciation of the evidence on human difference". (p. 162) Thus, "one sharp contrast between Dawkins and Gould is on the application of science in general, and evolutionary biology in particular, to our species". (p. 162) Yet paradoxically, Dawkins' most systematic writings on human evolution explore the differences between human evolution and that of most other organisms, in which humans pass on their values through ideas and skills which Dawkins calls memes.
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In September 2017, The Princeton Review published the results of a survey of 137,000 students from 382 different universities and colleges, which concluded that the College of the Ozarks as being the most hostile and unfriendly campus towards LGBT peoples and non-binary people, in response to the survey Valorie Coleman, public relations director, told the Kansas City Star that "she does not consider the school hostile to LGBT people, but acknowledged its strict rules against sexual immorality." Homosexual behavior, along with premarital, extramarital, and the consumption of alcohol and drugs is strictly prohibited by the university's student handbook. Former LGBT students of the college recounted that they were pressured to undergo Conversion therapy, a widely condemned procedure based in pseudo science that claims to be able to alter individuals from homosexuals to heterosexuals. In 2017 the College of the Ozarks controversially altered its course requirements for incoming freshmen requiring to enroll in a course titled, "Patriotic Education and Fitness", which combines military style physical education with military science in order to encourage patriotism and respect for the military.
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Scientific racism of the Other: In the late-19th century, H. Strickland Constable justified anti-Irish racism by claiming similarity between the cranial features of "the Irish-Iberian" man (left) and "the Negro" man (right), as proof that each type of man is racially inferior to the Anglo- Teutonic man (centre) possessed of the cranial ideal. The racialist perspective of 19th-century Europe was invented with the Othering of non-white peoples, which also was supported with the fabrications of scientific racism, such as the pseudo-science of phrenology, which claimed that, in relation to a white-man's head, the head-size of the non-European Other indicated inferior intelligence; e.g. the Apartheid-era cultural representations of coloured people in South Africa (1948–94). Consequent to the Nazi Holocaust (1941–1945), with documents such as The Race Question (1950) and the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1963), the United Nations officially declared that racial differences are insignificant to anthropological likeness among human beings.
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