Gems are common in pseudoscience, you may be familiar with crystal healing from Gwyneth Paltrow's trainwreck of a pseudoscience blog, Goop.
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So I think it's somewhat appropriate that someone with a pseudoscience degree is here pushing pseudoscience in front of our committee today.
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So, I think it's somewhat appropriate that somebody with a pseudoscience degree is here pushing pseudoscience in front of our committee today.
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The rise of pseudoscience — and how to stop it.
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But is is always wrapped in a blanket of pseudoscience.
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Google's got …Read more ReadWhy Do People Believe in Pseudoscience?
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So how much of this "candida syndrome" is total internet pseudoscience?
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I disagree, and will not stand for the normalization of pseudoscience.
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B's support of the flat-earth pseudoscience had a great reach.
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If this sounds like pseudoscience, that's because it kind of is.
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But the pseudoscience was a failure because its practitioners worked backwards.
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Gwenyth Paltrow launched her website Goop, bringing pseudoscience to the mainstream.
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Bryan and Butler's resistance to infernal pseudoscience, but they and their ilk
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Gwyneth Paltrow is hitting back at claims that Goop practices in pseudoscience.
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Pseudoscience is the last bastion of a religious order clinging to power.
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This doesn't mean, however, that we should lean on pseudoscience and gurus.
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Yet, activists like Robert Kennedy Jr. continue to push pseudoscience about immunizations.
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And, homeopathy gets diluted as France removes its state subsidy for the pseudoscience.
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" He's sick of seeing homeopathy labeled as "pseudoscience," or "quackery," or a "scam.
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Trump is known to draw from pseudoscience to make provocative claims on television.
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Sniffing herbs is often associated with new-age pseudoscience and multilevel marketing schemes.
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The science and pseudoscience surrounding the study of fingerprints has a long history.
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Mostly, they're histrionic, self-contradictory whirlpools of misinformation, pseudoscience, and venomous personal attack.
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In January, I started reading up on phrenology, the pseudoscience of skull study.
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The Heartland Institute has spent decades peddling pseudoscience on behalf or major corporations.
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It's increasingly hard to tell what's pseudoscience and what's backed by legitimate research.
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While there was some evidence that he was turning away from pseudoscience for a brief period following the criticism by colleagues (even debunking bogus health claims), lately he's gone back to his pseudoscience staples, including promoting crash diets and detox regimens.
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Paltrow defended Goop's emphasis on alternative medicine and disagreed "wholeheartedly" with the pseudoscience claims.
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Harker is aware there exists no simple litmus test that distinguishes science from pseudoscience.
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He also mentioned, for what it's worth, that he shares my distaste for pseudoscience.
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Mustering that evidence is likely to be difficult given that homeopathy is a pseudoscience.
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It is a pseudoscience bent on making big to-dos out of insignificant coincidences.
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Such inherent non-falsifiability is a guarantee that one is dealing with a pseudoscience.
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Will Del Monte rue the day it decided to dance with the pseudoscience devil?
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This is also a controversial idea, which harks back to the pseudoscience of physiognomy.
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And equating pseudoscience, or even just bad science, with solid science isn't just unorthodox.
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Attendees referenced religious beliefs and pseudoscience that they claimed disproved the effectiveness of vaccines.
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The words "pseudoscience" and "snake oil" are frequently used in connection with the brand.
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A. Nutrition is probably the area of sports science where pseudoscience flourishes most widely.
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It has repeatedly slid toward pseudoscience and has become a major divider of humanity.
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This makes athletes particularly vulnerable to pseudoscience, and science that hasn't quite yet been proven.
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Pseudoscience or not, this would at least get us talking more openly about our bodies.
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Sometimes that's because there are quacks or vested interests trying to spread lies and pseudoscience.
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Yet the foodies of Pacific Palisades are not just swayed by science—or even pseudoscience.
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Newton's interest in alchemy is not widely known, as alchemy is usually dismissed as pseudoscience.
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This will produce features that sound ridiculous, or pseudoscience babble on stage, or drained batteries.
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Dr. Oz is also know to draw from pseudoscience to make provocative claims on television.
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One ex-employee who worked on the science likened taking a uBiome test to pseudoscience.
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Tales of other monsters emerged, taken up by the field — considered a pseudoscience — of cryptozoology.
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Mr. Colicchio named his restaurant for two phrenologists who practiced their pseudoscience in the building.
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We debated whether they were a harmless toy, or a virulent new strain of pseudoscience.
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Sander developed his aesthetic in the wake of the 18763th-century pseudoscience of human physiognomy.
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And of course what they say is always half right, which is how pseudoscience works.
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Actress, Playboy model, and pseudoscience peddler Jenny McCarthy has been an ardent anti-vaccine advocate.
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Some people think that it is pseudoscience and some people think it makes perfect sense.
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The pseudoscience employed to try to keep women off the basketball court is particularly telling.
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Pseudoscience and those who peddle it are invested in misinformation, but so is the patriarchy.
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Gwyneth Paltrow has made a career out of selling pseudoscience on her lifestyle website, Goop.
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Look it up online and you'll find it described as everything from pseudoscience to The Answer.
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There are serious consequences that come from hawking pseudoscience online, including harming your readers or yourself.
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Though otherwise a fact-based person, I have a soft spot for the pseudoscience of astrology.
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Lumping probiotic treatment into an article discussing GMOs and gluten allergies is mixing science with pseudoscience.
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And it hurts the public that is being subjected to treatments after students learn this pseudoscience.
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Wikipedia tells me that the Rorschach test was labeled as pseudoscience in 2001 (among other times).
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The brand has been known to sell products that critics say skirt the realm of pseudoscience.
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There are also far too many overzealous pseudoscience types polluting the facts of going wholly organic.
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Unfortunately, the use of pseudoscience to further an agenda of hate is common throughout American scientific history.
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It's not just that plopping down $45 for 120 capsules of pseudoscience is a waste of money.
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A great number of other medical organizations have also denounced "conversion therapy" as a form of pseudoscience.
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This case demonstrates the powerful hold pseudoscience nonsense can have over even the most privileged among us.
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Goop is cashing in on pseudoscience and, in the process, giving natural health practices a bad name.
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It's a pseudoscience exaggerated with a wink through memes, an everything-in-quotation-marks lens for culture.
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Critics called it pseudoscience and said the search was akin to using public dollars to study mermaids.
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Exhibits explore the pseudoscience of mythological creatures, such as Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and the Yeti.
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Gone was the stilted pseudoscience of Trek; in its place was an analog, organic, inhabited sci-fi.
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It wasn't that long ago that we learned about Brenda Fitzgerald's history of supporting "anti-aging" pseudoscience.
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Or alternatively, do you think it's actually harmful in any way — a dangerous pseudoscience or a hoax?
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He continued:Of course National Geographic does not subscribe to pseudoscience, and I think you full well know that.
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And "wellness" brands like Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop trafficked similarly in pseudoscience, but for commercial, rather than political, gain.
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Many people tweeted during and after the show to talk about the "pseudoscience" of health at every size.
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"For a long time, nutrition has been seen as a sort of pseudoscience," Ed Baetge of Nestlé says.
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Either way, it's an important reminder that pseudoscience can be dangerous, and that natural doesn't necessarily mean safe.
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Financial markets are incredibly complex systems, so the math goes from science to art to pseudoscience quite rapidly.
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But is it possible that pseudoscience is sneaking back into the world, disguised in new garb thanks to AI?
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"There are a lot of things going on in society that are making way for pseudoscience," Caulfield told Motherboard.
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In the midst of this toxic stew of denialism and pseudoscience, what is the role of the Surgeon General?
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Pretty high on the list, though, is the Eat, Pray, Love brand of pseudoscience promoted by Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop.
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Thiel – In a conversation with Glenn Beck, Thiel said that he believes climate change is "more pseudoscience" than science.
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Other researchers in psychology decried it as physiognomy, the long-defunct pseudoscience of attributing personality traits to physical characteristics.
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It accused us of peddling junk science and pseudoscience and pseudo scientific racialist speculation and trafficking in dangerous ideas.
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Many deride her lifestyle brand, Goop, as little more than an overhyped e-commerce platform peddling pseudoscience and baubles.
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Gingers, convinced by recent pseudoscience that they are becoming extinct, band together to fight back and save their breed.
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Pejoratives like "woo" or "pseudoscience" are still often applied to anything that falls outside of the mainstream medical establishment.
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It's one thing for a sitcom star to endorse pseudoscience, wholly another for a practicing physician to do so.
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He's been denounced as a racist who's based his life's work on pseudoscience and eugenics; he's also newly relevant.
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" Against claims that he is theorizing about pseudoscience, McCulloch argues that it is the physicists invoking dark matter who "have been on the slide into pseudoscience for decades" and that "the only reason the dark matterist haven't noticed is they are all happily going down together, so self-correction has become impossible.
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She was thinking about her mission to protect academia from becoming a place that validates bigotry, pseudoscience, and fake news.
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"A real scientist would never say that research use FFQ (food frequency questionnaire) data is pseudoscience," she responded via email.
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That's why you can't fight flat earthers or anti-vaxxers or any other brand of pseudoscience with arguments from authority.
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To start with, the boundary between science and pseudoscience is often not absolute, and therefore it's subject to individual interpretation.
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You need look no further than Gwyneth Paltrow's dubious Goop summit last weekend to see 'tis the season for pseudoscience.
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Although her ideas have been criticized as pseudoscience, Hari has a large enough following that she has seen some victories.
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Junger is the "cleanse specialist" and detox evangelist who has been behind a lot of Paltrow's health pseudoscience for years.
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But just because you're against pseudoscience, doesn't mean that you're against the clear health prevention health promotion facts, the truth.
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Animal Whey: I like Animal because the company doesn't make gimmicky claims or rely on pseudoscience to sell its products.
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Unfortunately, with this book, Brady joins the club of diet gurus selling pseudoscience and woo about the body and nutrition.
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Other scholars have traced this mishmash of mind cures, millennialism, mesmerism, spiritualism, theosophy and other strains of pseudoscience and mysticism.
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We now call phrenology pseudoscience; back in the 19th century, powerful men legitimating cruel inequalities thought it was irreproachably objective.
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We wanted to know what shark scientists thought — in particular, the scientist who helped bring Shark Week's pseudoscience to light.
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Some call it pseudoscience — but that's probably just because they've never met Roxie Darling, NYC's coolest hair colorist-turned-intuitive healer.
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These vegans probably still love animals, but what's weird is how they lump all this pseudoscience bullshit in with loving animals.
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Kersel noted that the use of pseudoscience revoking the accomplishments of Native American cultures is a sad part of American history.
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"Even though everything we're doing is sort of pseudoscience, I wanted it to be based on real science," Mr. Feig said.
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But the theory isn't just pseudoscience touted by fitness magazines and weight-loss blogs; researchers and doctors have studied it, too.
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But were Wiley's tests of additives like saccharine and sodium benzoate — whose health effects still remain controversial — sound science or pseudoscience?
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Nor did theories of personal divinity, goofy pseudoscience, communication with the dead or prophecies of worldly glory distinguish these spiritual entrepreneurs.
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The study is emblematic of genetics as a field not seriously reckoning with its potential for misuse by 21st century pseudoscience.
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Finally, a few members of Edge are notorious for outright pseudoscience or intellectual dishonesty: Rupert Sheldrake, Marc D. Hauser, Jonah Lehrer.
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The use of such pseudoscience lets industry—and the politicians paid to love them—justify policies that routinely harm American consumers.
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The film shows how an iconic inventor, a Nobel physics laureate and a brilliant Supreme Court justice all embraced the pseudoscience.
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Terence HinesProfessor of neurology at Pace University and the author of Pseudoscience and the ParanormalThe human brain has evolved to find patterns.
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Ideas like "dark enlightenment" (that pre-enlightenment authority structures like monarchies are ideal), "racial realism" (racism clad in pseudoscience), and outright fascism.
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Over the last several decades, alien-believers have been portrayed as paranoid, conspiracy-loving nutjobs who espouse pseudoscience over the real thing.
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Whether or not you believe in graphology, which has been called a pseudoscience, there's no doubt signatures matter—legally, emotionally, even neurologically.
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And now, despite what the pseudoscience-loving creators of these diet plans would like you to believe, you're not in better shape.
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They paid skeptics to refute scientific studies, created an institute to churn out contrary pseudoscience, and sowed seeds of doubt in lawmakers.
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Trusii operates in the largely unregulated $40 billion-a-year U.S. market for dietary supplements, where pseudoscience and bogus assertions are rampant.
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The pseudoscience was based on an ancient medicine requiring the body's "humours" or fluids be in proper balance to achieve optimum health.
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The Cleveland Clinic also employs Dr. Mark Hyman, another peddler of the debunked idea that vaccines cause autism, among other pseudoscience malarkey.
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Phrenology was a pseudoscience, popular particularly in the early 1800s, that claimed there were correlations between a person's character and skull shape.
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It could help battle the emerging "infodemic," the cacophony of real news, fake news and pseudoscience that feeds uncertainty and breeds panic.
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She's the Chief Science Officer of the Autism Science Foundation, which supports autism research and helps demystify autism treatments and identify pseudoscience.
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It is particularly offensive when this pseudoscience is coupled with the [apparent] marketing of products, like supplements, that lack good clinical evidence.
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The chat is the perfect amount of lively and hilarious but with an ample dose of grating pseudoscience to keep it balanced.
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Sometimes it's used for racist pseudoscience (example: phrenology) and sometimes it's used to understand the range of foot sizes in a given country.
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That the NXIVM therapy appears to mirror elements of these practices with some extra pseudoscience thrown in is not totally lost on Molatore.
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The growing creep to pseudoscience, and a distrust of conventional medicine, is something we all need to address—Canada's doctors and policymakers included.
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According to this racial pseudoscience, Brazilian attempts to modernize were doomed: the nation, with its irreversibly mixed population, was condemned to permanent inferiority.
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It proposes a constructive, value-neutral alternative to the sick and outmoded system of "racial" classification we have inherited from 19th-century pseudoscience.
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He paid a blacksmith to create an iron with a skull and crossbones brand, which he stamped into the frontispiece of "pseudoscience" books.
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We leave a vacuum that gets filled by pseudoscience, an outcome that is far worse than anything we could achieve by talking openly.
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More from Tonic: There's a lot of "woo woo" pseudoscience out there about how having a more "alkaline diet" is good for you.
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But some of the things on your site stray into the realm of pseudoscience that may be not only unproven, but potentially dangerous.
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Today, it's mostly considered the province of women's magazines and Instagram memes, at best a harmless fiction and at worst a pernicious pseudoscience.
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The chief author of the laws was Albert Johnson, a eugenicist who dabbled in racist pseudoscience and was head of The Eugenics Research Association.
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Articles sneakily pop up—and often go viral—with under-researched findings, overstated claims, and pseudoscience about what foods to eat to prevent STIs.
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From the time Europeans started stealing people from Africa, they used pseudoscience and supposedly observed behavioral traits to justify their brutality, subjugation and exploitation.
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LGBTQ rights groups decried the research, saying it's based in pseudoscience and poses a danger to members of the LGBTQ community around the world.
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The organization cited the work Paul Cameron, the sort-of godfather of the anti-LGBTQ pseudoscience movement in these reports, according to the SPLC.
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The debunking website Science-Based Medicine concludes that electromagnetic pulse treatments like PEMF are a "quack scam" and calls them snake oil and pseudoscience.
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Terminations are also banned after 20 weeks based on pseudoscience about fetal pain, and a state lawmaker recently introduced a bill to criminalize abortion.
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Such busy recyclers of Western supremacism, many of whom uphold a disgraced racial pseudoscience, remind us that history often repeats itself as intellectual farce.
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Amazon's websites are hawking a universe of dangerous, pseudoscience health products — from electronic "zappers" that promise to cure HIV to bleach enemas for autism.
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That leaves just a handful of academics who get bombarded with vitriol, including outright threats, every time they try to counter pseudoscience with fact.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "The Astrology Cure" (Sunday Review, June 17): I am distressed by Krista Burton's willingness to go along with pseudoscience.
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Even though Goop staffers express skepticism, science and pseudoscience are woven so tightly together on the show that it's difficult to find the seams.
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Wearables like these walk a thin line between innocuous pseudoscience (10,000 steps a day!) and potentially dangerous marketing claims of being "medical grade" devices.
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Sharon Hill, a geologist and science writer who researches pseudoscience and paranormal culture, has some ideas about why there has been a decline in reports.
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While unlikely to win him the case, Unruh is slowly becoming a rallying cry for those removed from platforms for promoting pseudoscience, conspiracies, or harassment.
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He's a professor of health law and science policy at the University of Alberta in Canada and an outspoken advocate against the proliferation of pseudoscience.
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Regardless, as Apple continues to operate and expand in the health and wellness sector, it would do well to avoid featuring pseudoscience, even in passing.
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This highlights another feature of pseudoscience: its supporters choose to completely ignore all evidence which undermines their claims, often providing spurious reasons for doing so.
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The Family Research Council isn't content to oppose homosexuality on religious grounds; instead, it uses pseudoscience to give its homophobia a flimsy veneer of objectivity.
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But in the U.S., it has been government-approved pseudoscience ever since the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 recognized homeopathic preparations as drugs.
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Black has developed an entire pseudoscience around a real type of tissue, fascia, which connects muscle to skin and contributes to the appearance of cellulite.
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I think that the only way that someone can educate themselves about certain pseudoscience theories or even other conspiracies is to just dig into it.
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Saying that all naturopaths practice pseudoscience is like saying that all founders of sandwich conglomerates are pedophiles just because Jared from Subway was molesting children.
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" Then I retweeted it taking a snide dig at you, saying something like, "I hope Ezra Klein is on the case, racialist pseudoscience never sleeps.
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There's nothing I've said here that discounts the history of racism and pseudoscience and the fact that it's quite possible to be a racist scientist.
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With tender performances and dubious conclusions, this story is best appreciated as an explanation for why people seek out the false comfort of gendered pseudoscience.
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He's also given his platform to vaccine deniers and fearmongering pseudoscience purveyors like the Food Babe (known to scientists as "the Jenny McCarthy of food").
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But kindred soul Mike Adams, the self-declared "Health Ranger" behind questionably reliable pseudoscience site Natural News, recently got slapped with his own YouTube account termination.
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Sadly, the ideas espoused in his letter echo the same pseudoscience peddled by eugenicists and white supremacists for decades—and they're unlikely to disappear anytime soon.
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Its history was often ugly and racist, from the idea of "the white man's burden" that was used to justify colonialism to the pseudoscience of eugenics.
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I also think about how to not only hold the peddlers of pseudoscience accountable, but also to go after the people who enable and support them.
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If the Trump administration admitted the president's true beliefs, he would be widely accused of using pseudoscience and conspiracy theories to guide major foreign policy decisions.
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Before it was dismissed as pseudoscience, lots of people went to phrenologists, who could "read" their intelligence and determine traits by the shape of their head.
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In some cases, she thinks that's appropriate—publicizing research that hasn't yet been peer reviewed, for example, can be misleading at best and pseudoscience at worst.
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Tech ethicists have warned that the trend threatens to revive long-disproven pseudoscience practices like physiognomy, which have historically been used to justify racism and discrimination.
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An extensive review of emotion recognition research found that facial expression is not really associated with emotion, making the surveillance vendors' claims no better than pseudoscience.
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As a way to help combat the pseudoscience being disseminated by the Whole30 folks, I decided to undertake a chapter-by-chapter review of their book.
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The site regularly amplifies conspiracy theories from anonymous message board 24chan and writes frequently about the deep state, doomsday prep, bitcoin speculation, and New Age pseudoscience.
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Dr. Medvedev played a large role in discrediting the doctrines of Stalin's director of biology, Trofim D. Lysenko, who was behind a pseudoscience known as Lysenkoism.
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Superlek and Panpayak are two of the top pound-for-pound fighters in Muay Thai boxing, but, like seismology, the fight game is an unpredictable pseudoscience.
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And with the legal landscape around marijuana shifting in this country, we may see more celebrities attempting to profit off the "green rush" with pseudoscience products.
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Finally, the ideomotor effect lies behind a controversial, repeatedly debunked form of pseudoscience therapy called "facilitated communication," which emerged as a popular therapy technique in the 1990s.
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For years, South African President Thabo Mbeki had stalled on providing access to HIV drugs because he subscribed to discredited pseudoscience alleging that HIV doesn't cause AIDS.
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Pseudoscience melts into on-the-scene reportage, and that gonzo-journalism-meets-the- declarative style of writing creates a truly arresting form of (quite often incredible) content.
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They to find a market with people who think that fluoride in the water is a vast conspiracy—you know, the pseudoscience, anti-government, anti-vaxxer types.
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"It's kind of pseudoscience to think these indexes are perfect, and all I need is some kind of computer model instead of thinking about business," Shiller said.
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But there's no denying we're seeing a mistrust of it, and a creep towards pseudoscience, which can have serious consequences for the most vulnerable patients, including kids.
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The information age has turned out to be a breeding ground for misinformation, with "Moneyball" giving way to Twitter bots, viral pseudoscience, and dubious Facebook news feeds.
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We also observed that even though higher earners have more access to information about food, they are also more likely to be influenced by misinformation and pseudoscience.
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He's also given his platform to vaccine deniers and fearmongering pseudoscience purveyors like the Food Babe Vani Hari (known to scientists as "the Jenny McCarthy of food").
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A longstanding network of bogus "think tanks" raise disinformation to a pseudoscience, and their studies' pull quotes and flashy stats become the "evidence" driving viral, fact-free stories.
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"The dissolution gives hope that Russia will start learning from best practices of European states and stop bringing pseudoscience and inhumane drug policy to foreign nations," said Golichenko.
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And for affect recognition, where companies claim technology can scan someone's face and read their character and even intent, AI Now's authors say companies are often peddling pseudoscience.
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I've been experiencing this a lot lately in regards to information, specifically around news stories that feature some terrible combination of anti-science or pseudoscience and autism panic.
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Amazon can start by doing better when it comes to recommending and categorizing pseudoscience that may have a significant impact on a person's life (or on public health).
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Goop spreads anxiety-causing pseudoscience out into the world in order to sell its wares, and yet, its readers have no direct path to hold the company accountable.
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" By 1921, accepting mounting bodies of pseudoscience as fact, President Calvin Coolidge would say that "biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend.
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Destroyer of the central female friendship of "The Hills," waster of opportunity, staunch believer in pseudoscience — Pratt became the rat from whose manic scurrying America couldn't look away.
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He, in turn, might have been answering a call by Horace Walpole, a politician and writer fascinated by the pseudoscience of phrenology: studying skulls for clues to intelligence.
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The series, with its disquisitions on bodily humors and "the great American evil — indigestion," shows Whitman's long-known immersion in the health science — or pseudoscience — of his era.
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The thesis struck a chord with the public, but the academic community has generally dismissed von Däniken's work as wacky pseudoscience at best and pernicious ethnocentrism at worst.
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As Ms. De Francesco wrote: Through his mysterious and appealing lectures, they were guided away from the cold sobriety of genuine knowledge into the picturesque realms of pseudoscience.
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Cayt is a sympathetic antagonist, having been cruelly weaponized through applied racist pseudoscience, but she is utterly relentless, and she means to weaponize Lij in the same manner.
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" It is not exactly a secret that this website has a track record of skepticism toward astrology, having referred to the field as pseudoscience, "not real," or "hooey.
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Throughout his report, Chancey laid out examples of proselytization of students, teaching elements of the Bible as fact, use of pseudoscience, among other things that some teachers were practicing.
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The Fifth Element produced one of science fiction's most iconic protagonists, and even failed Besson characters — like Morgan Freeman's pseudoscience-spouting professor in Lucy — tend to be memorably bad.
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And so for this week's Giz Asks, we reached out to a number of psychologists and historians who've studied the issue to figure out why people believe in pseudoscience.
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The pseudoscience and the questions it raises — what, exactly, makes the "damaged" different from the "pure," when everyone onscreen looks like a model and knows the same martial arts?
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It's very hard to separate fact from fiction, sense from nonsense, which is largely why most scientists consider it at best a pseudoscience and don't want to become involved.
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Wendling writes about the "Intellectuals" (like the democracy-hating Curtis Yarvin), the "Racialists" (peddlers of racist pseudoscience), the "Channers" (4chan forum posters) and the "Meninists" (male anti-feminist activists).
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And Bill Nye Saves the World's agenda is explicitly skeptical — that is, it's geared toward debunking false assumptions about science, bad pseudoscience, medical quackery, and harmful non-scientific beliefs.
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Hong Kong (CNN)Could a traditional Chinese medicine help fight the Wuhan coronavirus, or is one of the country's most influential state media outlets promoting pseudoscience and false hope?
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"If to be skeptical of vaccines means to be a good conservative, [there's a problem]," said Alan Levinovitz, a professor of philosophy and religion who has been studying pseudoscience.
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Pinterest has struggled with pseudoscience on its platform, with anti-vaccination posts becoming enough of a problem that all vaccine-related content has been banned on the platform since December.
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Border science, as distinct from pseudoscience, was a term adopted by 1930s occultists to cover fields like parapsychology, astrology, or clairvoyance that suddenly found favor with Hitler's fact-averse government.
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Photo: GettyGwyneth Paltrow's Goop—a "lifestyle brand" peddling pseudoscience in the form of wellness—just settled a lawsuit claiming the stated health benefits of the company's products weren't scientifically supported.
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Riko Muranaka, of Kyoto University, was awarded the 2017 John Maddox prize for her work uncovering the pseudoscience at the heart of widespread fear in Japan about the HPV vaccine.
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No official reasons were given for its removal, but academics who protested against the move said the government had deemed political science a pseudoscience based on teachings alien to Uzbekistan.
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The premise can be taken literally, as an adventure in pseudoscience, or metaphorically, expressing an inchoate desire for a new German order founded on modern innovation and medieval magical thinking.
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The scientists, Nisbett and Paige Harden and Turkheimer, said that they believe Murray's interpretation of this, ultimately, is pseudoscience and is way, way, way out in front of the data.
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Professors organized students of color to sit in the middle of the stage and look Murray, whose work cited racist pseudoscience, in the eye, but he was allowed to speak.
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Speaking to RBC, Yevgeny Alexandrov, the chairman of the Russian Academy of Sciences' anti-pseudoscience commission, dismissed parapsychology as a "fairy tale" and said there is no scientific basis for telepathy.
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If anything, given the resurgence of pseudoscience in the online age, we might expect even wilder manifestations of Bermuda Triangle lore to surface from the deepest, weirdest corners of the internet.
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Doctors and scientists have said that crystal healing is pseudoscience, but Wall Streeters and celebrities including Kim Kardashian West and Gwyneth Paltrow have touted its benefits, as INSIDER's Abby Jackson reported.
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"It legitimizes these fields and basically helps to spread the pseudoscience, which hurts everyone," says Timothy Caulfield, a professor and research director at Health Law Institute of the University of Alberta.
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Skeptic of pseudoscience, the show highlighted how experimental treatments work for some people -- like the woman who felt relieved of her anxiety through cold water therapy, the subject of episode two.
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"Manly Health and Training" is a kind of self-help book, steeped in the pseudoscience and quackery that Whitman embraced as less durable ways of seeking a path toward the new.
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Banu Guler, the chief executive and co-founder of Co-Star, said not every investor she pitched was enthusiastic about her company and that some dismissed its practice area as pseudoscience.
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This pseudoscience, physiognomy, was fuel for the scientific racism of the 253th and 210th centuries, and gave moral cover to some of humanity's worst impulses: to demonize, condemn, and exterminate fellow humans.
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He seems to have been captivated by racist pseudoscience after the Civil War, and while he opposed slavery, he defended the exclusion of black Americans from Western territories of the United States.
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Gwyneth Paltrow's venture, Goop—the epitome of pseudoscience profiteering—has been called out for flogging all kinds of questionable goods, including a jade vagina egg that some gynecologists warned could cause infections.
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For example, judging the intelligence of racial or ethnic groups by IQ tests is now commonly acknowledged in the scientific community as racist pseudoscience, since the results are related to socioeconomic status.
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TASHKENT (Reuters) - Uzbekistan will resume teaching political science this year, according to a presidential decree signaling the return of a subject said to have been decried as pseudoscience by the previous leadership.
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently awarded a $1.3 million contract to an international team of researchers to study quantized inertia, a controversial theory that some physicists dismiss as pseudoscience.
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When the gay marriage debate made it to the Supreme Court, a peak for anti-gay pseudoscience, Regnerus signed an amicus brief testifying to the "unique" benefits of heterosexual marriages and parenting.
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Still, the idea that doing a counterintuitive and unpleasant thing could actually be good is the kind of pseudoscience that makes intuitive sense—hence the appeal of toe shoes and eating paleo.
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The head of the Russian Academy of Sciences's Pseudoscience Commission, Evgeny Alexandrov, described cryonics as "an exclusively commercial undertaking that does not have any scientific basis", in comments to the Izvestia newspaper.
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The head of the Russian Academy of Sciences's Pseudoscience Commission, Evgeny Alexandrov, described cryonics as "an exclusively commercial undertaking that does not have any scientific basis", in comments to the Izvestia newspaper.
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As I explained in a feature story, we now have a president who courts known anti-vaccine crackpots and makes the same kinds of pseudoscience claims about lifesaving immunizations that they do.
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And the idea of limiting births has historically been informed by pseudoscience and leadened with racism and classism, often brought up by the powerful as a way to limit less desirable peoples.
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However just two months into the three-year fellowship, I found myself the subject of a censorious open letter (signed by over 500 academics), which claimed that my academic work was "racist pseudoscience".
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But since its introduction, the Blue Monday equation has faced an onslaught of criticism as both demeaning the severity of actual clinical depression and as yet another example of problematic pseudoscience gone mainstream.
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A longstanding criticism of the skeptics community is that its members often profess mocking or condescending attitudes toward anyone who believes in things skeptics are opposed to — primarily religion, the paranormal, and pseudoscience.
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Pseudoscience autism "cures" can be good business, and parents can find themselves desperate for answers, making them easy prey, Shannon Des Roches Rosa, the mother of a high-support autistic teen, told BuzzFeed News.
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"What emerged really clearly from our analysis is just a strong desire among women that we surveyed to say, we really want something grounded in science, we don't want something that's pseudoscience," Starling says.
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But I also encourage you to think critically, fight the forces of pseudoscience and fake news that have permeated popular culture, and think before sharing an article ascribing wacky names to the lunar phases.
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That's why there is always a bull market for ideas that seem to justify injustice, like the racist pseudoscience of the 19th and early 20th centuries or, I would argue, climate change denialism today.
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Because cognitive biases do make navigating the world easier, even at a cost to accuracy, many pseudoscience beliefs tend to be examples of an extreme version of one or a combination of cognitive biases.
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END FORCED MOTHERHOOD is a column focusing on the ways in which anti-abortion activists use pseudoscience and thinly veiled religious justifications to attack the bodily autonomy of all people who can get pregnant.
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Now an evolutionary genomics PhD candidate at Kiel University in Germany, Hermes writes for her blog and Forbes to debunk pseudoscience and stand up against natural medicine that's simply out to make a profit.
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Unfortunately it will probably still continue to be viewed as a pseudoscience by the general scientific community, which is highly unfortunate because this phenomenon is valid and is impacting of thousands of people worldwide.
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The Olympics are "an international festival of sports pseudoscience," as Tim Caulfield, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy at the University of Alberta, recently put it in Policy Options.
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Presumably this is threatening to the anti-vaccine lobby, which is well-organized, well-funded, and aggressive and relies heavily on combining pseudoscience, messaging that uses phony terms like "medical freedom," and bullying tactics.
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He reveled in a swashbuckling censoriousness, implementing what he called a "Literary Pure Food Act," stamping a skull and crossbones onto the frontispiece of pseudoscience books he deemed so iffy that they were dangerous.
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Philosophy, '17 For too long, a flawed notion of "free speech" has allowed individuals in positions of power to spread racist pseudoscience in academic institutions, dehumanizing and subjugating people of color and gender minorities.
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It's not standardized, but almanacs (those folksy pseudoscience sources) used to refer to a season with an extra full moon as having a blue moon, with the moniker going specifically to the third full moon.
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Human Rights Watch revealed last year that public hospitals and private clinics in China still offered so-called "conversion therapy," a pseudoscience that attempts to change an individual's sexual orientation through psychiatric "treatments" or prayer.
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It is probably no accident that the category of "genius," an obsession of the nineteenth century, coincided with the emergence of the pseudoscience of race, which held that certain peoples were genetically fitter than others.
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The Good Thinking Society, a non-profit charity that campaigns against pseudoscience, confirmed to CNBC Monday that it had submitted the complaint about Goop to the U.K.'s National Trading Standards and the Advertising Standards Authority.
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The WendysWendy Callahan of Hawthorne, Florida is an anti-vaccine activist of long standing, and her website Vaccine Truth is both easy to find and, I would politely but firmly argue, filled with misinformation and pseudoscience.
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Such new-agey concepts must be relegated to the realm of pseudoscience, but within the arts, they provide a philosophical underpinning to the intuitive sense that we impart life-energy upon our objects after we die.
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As Cargill and many other right-minded academics now make clear, the necessity for scientists, archaeologists, and academics in general to talk to the public about the ethnic biases of pseudoscience is becoming ever more apparent.
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Like Trump, she also has a history of encouraging charlatans who traffic in quack ideas, as she has given a platform to dubious figures like Dr. Oz, a purveyor of pseudoscience, and vaccine denier Jenny McCarthy.
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That, my friends, is a description of eugenics—the pseudoscience that rose in the latter half of the 19th century as a byproduct of extrapolating Darwin's theory of natural selection into the realm of human development.
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A skit in which Rachel Bloom portrays a loopy pseudoscience conspiracist falls flat, as do most of the show's purely comedic segments, because within the show's structure they often feel superimposed, unfocused, and frankly mean-spirited.
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At the end of each investigation, Blocher and Poppy rate their subject in a series of categories, including creepiness, danger and pseudoscience, so the show works both as entertainment and as a kind of public service.
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In 1843, when Morse petitioned the federal government to support the telegraph, a congressman argued that if the government provided resources to explore sending electric messages, it ought to fund the pseudoscience of mesmerism as well.
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At the same time, doctors and health experts have challenged some of these recommendations, saying the claims are dangerous to assert when we live in a world where pseudoscience is often mistaken for science-backed medicine.
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That might not be so bad when it takes you from videos about vegetarianism to veganism, but it's dangerous when you go from explanations of the history of the West to racist pseudoscience posted by white nationalists.
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Image: Sam Rutherford/GizmodoFor the uninitiated, Chopra is famous for spewing pseudoscience disguised as alternative medicine gospel, which is all detailed in scores of books with titles like Unconditional Life: Discovering the Power to Fulfill Your Dreams.
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Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)The pharmacy and retail chain CVS has been hit with a civil lawsuit over its marketing of what might be the silliest kind of pseudoscience to still enjoy a modicum of popularity.
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Pseudoscience and skin care may always be inextricable from one another; ludicrous terms like "DNA repair" and "cellular rejuvenation" may continue to abound, and products that purport to be "clinically tested" may continue to go, well, untested.
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"The chemtrails conspiracy theory maps pretty closely to the origin and growth of the internet, where you can still find a number of websites that promote this particular brand of pseudoscience," he said in a press release.
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Mr. Reynolds said he agreed that the text shows hints of Whitman's later turn toward ethnographic pseudoscience (a kind of "pre-eugenics," Mr. Reynolds said), a topic that has received substantial attention from scholars in recent years.
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This can lead to innovation and activism (intersectional feminism, BLM, trans rights), but it can also [lead to] anti-intellectualism and pseudoscience (anti-vaccination) as people burned by the established way of doing things seek out alternatives.
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In her view, snark or cheeky videos are not the problem: If people are really committed to a piece of pseudoscience, a video from someone like Mr. Zozaya will not convince them otherwise, no matter how respectful.
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And as the Goop website has emerged as a reliably laughable source of pseudoscience, a small army of journalists (myself included), doctors, researchers, and bloggers has evolved to pounce on Goop's claptrap as soon as it's out.
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We're experiencing the largest measles outbreak in 25 years thanks to the anti-vaccination movement, which has hijacked social media to amplify its messages; we seem unable to beat back the disinformation and pseudoscience surrounding the vaccine.
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Especially trenchant is the idea — as you can get from this satirical Instagram bio of a spiritual "Karen" — that a stereotypical Karen plays fast and loose with pseudoscience, appropriates identities, may be conservative, and is extremely picky.
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The National Science Board, which submits biennial reports to Congress on the state of science and engineering in the United States, including attitudes toward "pseudoscience," has also found that younger Americans are less likely to reject astrology.
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Their stories are of ordinary individuals with promising careers who fell to the siren song of pseudoscience; men like Dale Graff, who had an out-of-body experience while saving his wife from drowning in Hawaii in 1969.
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Just as African-Americans qualify for protection from racial discrimination even though the very idea of race is based on pseudoscience, anti-Semitism can be racism for legal purposes even though Jewishness cannot be reduced to racial terms.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Whatever skeptics may say about the pseudoscience of graphology (handwriting analysis), it's hard to deny that handwriting expresses feeling and style — especially, in many cases, when it's the handwriting of an artist.
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Last year, artificial intelligence scientists called HireVue's methods "pseudoscience" and "profoundly disturbing" in a Washington Post article, and the Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission alleging it violates jobseekers' privacy through facial recognition.
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Simon Oxenham, who writes a column called Brain Scanner that sets out to sift through pseudoscience and get the real facts out, found that the body releases the stress hormones cortisol and adrenaline when blood glucose gets too low.
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Thus purveyors of medical pseudoscience will freely use terms like energy, vibrations, frequencies, resonance and so on in describing their interventions but none of these terms are being used in the precise way that a physicist would use them.
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Founder Dr. Arthur Janov once described his psychotherapy method as "the most important discovery of the 20th century," but the vast majority of people in the mental health community see it as pseudoscience or even a kind of scam.
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And so housing reports, sociological studies and the news media have blamed grim statistics, like the shrunken class of American homeowners, on an "entitled" millennial lifestyle, in the process producing some of the most laughable pseudoscience in recent history.
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The arguments tend to involve pseudoscience—speculation about the effects of increased sunlight over the British Isles in a warming climate, misunderstanding of the nature of recessive genes—and can often be traced, like much quackery, to profit motive.
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When gluten-phobia was at its zenith, she argued against it, both because of the confusion it spread about celiac disease and the fact that a multibillion dollar industry was pushing people to buy its products based on pseudoscience.
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Combining pseudoscience, conspiracy theories and nationalism, Velopoulos launched a rapid-fire narrative: Europe must remain Christian, Greece could start charging royalties for every one of its artefacts in museums around the world, and a migration wave to Greece must stop.
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Subsequently, Eric Turkheimer, Kathryn Paige Harden, and Richard E. Nisbett — three academic psychologists who specialize in studying intelligence — wrote a piece for Vox arguing that Murray was peddling pseudoscience and Harris had been irresponsible in representing it as the scientific consensus.
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I went in skeptical, but I'm now prepared to eat my words: Not only was the experience free of pseudoscience and annoying woo-woo vibes, but it also gave me the glowiest skin of my life — in just 0.5 minutes.
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All this is to say that at this point, no online review looks any more or less fake than any other — particularly when you rope in Goop-era misleading pseudoscience — so the FTC certainly has its work cut out for it.
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Robert MacDougallAssociate Professor, History, University of Western Ontario, who studies the history of science and pseudoscience in nineteenth-century AmericaIt would be lovely to think that we believe things because they are true, and disbelieve them because they are false.
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The finding that women experience anxiety disorders more often than men is consistent among more modern and scientifically rigorous researchers, but given the history of pseudoscience aimed at women and their states of "hysteria," interpreting it comes with certain pitfalls.
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Faced with this vacuum, hundreds of people gathered in Tucson where wild speculations and carnivalesque pseudoscience were juxtaposed with sober sessions like "Agency and Mental Causation" and data-filled talks about probing conscious brain states with PET scans and EEGs.
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One of the authors on the AI Now report, Sarah Myers West, said in a press call that such "algorithmic gaydar" systems should not be built, both because they're based on pseudoscience and because they put LGBTQ people at risk.
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By accepting deference to states' regulations despite the dearth of medical utility associated with these abortion restrictions, Thomas has essentially argued that states may, and perhaps should, use pseudoscience as a ruse to enact legislation violating the rights of others.
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In the end, all I saw during my evening was pseudoscience and confirmation bias, the adult equivalent of sitting around a campfire telling scary stories—terrifying and thrilling, but without any sort of merit beyond the enjoyment of the thing.
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Tamara Lanier of Norwich, Connecticut, who claims to be the great-great-great-granddaughter of Renty, accused Harvard of celebrating its former professor who studied "racist pseudoscience" and profiting from photos that were taken without Renty and his daughter's consent.
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This has evolved into a language of "human biodiversity," the pseudoscience of the alt-right and other racists that borrows the celebratory term "biodiversity" from the environmental movement as a way of gussying up their ideas in more acceptable scientific language.
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Its critics always thought it a pseudoscience (Freud himself hoped his baroque theoretical constructs would later be proven by neuroscience), even before the founder's copious coke habit—which some classify as substance abuse rather than addiction—was brought to light.
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Racial epithets were enormously popular in the early days of organised boxing, and ethnicity was often used to sell fights at a time when racism in the USA and colonial Europe was prevalent in the form of pseudoscience, philosophy and government policy.
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You can trace the pseudoscience of the photography back to Russian scientist Semyon Kirlian, who, in 1939, accidentally discovered that an object on a photographic plate connected to a voltage produced an image of the object surrounded by a strange glowing contour.
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"Young people are often more conscious about the misinformation on the internet and can in many cases disagree with parents who have bought into unfounded and dangerous anti-immunization diatribes and pseudoscience," said a memo from the organization in support of the bill.
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Finally, tell us more about what you think: Watch one of Mr. Zozaya's newer videos, below, in which he says he wants to stop spreading negativity, and then decide: What do you think is the best way to handle the tide of pseudoscience?
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In each of the six squares that follow she set symbolic figures, including an eagle bearing a shield with the word "love," a map of a human head according to the pseudoscience phrenology, and a pair of skeletons, one white and one black.
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En outre, il est difficile de trouver le temps nécessaire pour lutter contre la pseudoscience quand la science elle-même vous prend tout votre temps et votre énergie, et que le milieu académique tend à décourager les activités parascientifiques (comme la vulgarisation).
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While Peterson is just one blogger selling pseudoscience on the internet (a 30-minute nutrition consultation with Peterson costs $120 USD), she makes a convincing case for how her diet helped relieve her own frustrating autoimmune disease symptoms that impressionable people would happily buy into.
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The bottom line: The investigation "found disgraced doctors who were recast as salespeople, manufacturers that cloaked themselves in pseudoscience and had few scientists on staff, and clinics that offer to treat conditions like multiple sclerosis or kidney disease without specialized training," ProPublica's Caroline Chen writes.
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So much of what led the FBI to his door, he says, was premised on this bullshit pseudoscience, and if he can get the very concept of forensic linguistics thrown out of court, he just might be able to score a not guilty verdict.
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Historian of pseudoscience John Colavito has remarked that while the book became a bestseller in Europe, it was the National Enquirer's underscoring of von Däniken's work through a serial series published in the tabloid that introduced it to readers in the US in 1970.
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The novel depends on another bogus idea wrapped in pseudoscience, the notion that personal guilt can be passed down among generations, making descendants accountable for the actions of their distant ancestors (as opposed to all of us being responsible for addressing history's present-day consequences).
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Zhores A. Medvedev, the Soviet biologist, writer and dissident who was declared insane, confined to a mental institution and stripped of his citizenship in the 1970s after attacking a Stalinist pseudoscience, died on Thursday at his home in London, where he had lived for decades.
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I already feel like the world has turned its back on science with the anti-vaxxer movement running unchecked, Goop selling "bio-frequency-healing stickers," the EPA seemingly doing whatever it can to ruin the environment, and pseudoscience-peddling websites like InfoWars garnering any readers at all.
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Whether or not evolutionary psychology is a real or a pseudoscience—opinions vary—one can believe that human beings are afflicted with too much wanting without thinking that we are that way because once upon a time those cravings helped us have more kids than our neighbors.
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In 1923, the Supreme Court had to decide whether the category of a "free white person" included Bhagat Singh Thind, a "high caste" Indian man who was technically as "Caucasian" as the justices hearing his case, according to the 18th-century pseudoscience that defined such categories.
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Likewise, understanding the myriad processes and mechanisms of biological evolution is far more complicated than a belief that life was purposefully created by some powerful being, so the collection of pseudoscience beliefs under the umbrella terms "creationism" and "intelligent design" are common despite all scientific evidence to the contrary.
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Scott O. LilienfeldProfessor, Psychology, Emory College, and the editor of Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology, among other booksOur minds tend to seek out and detect patterns; that's basically an adaptive tendency, as it helps us to make sense of our often bewildering worlds and to avoid danger.
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There are also honkingly dull digressions into the spiritual meaning of becoming a hermit ("In Hindu philosophy, everyone ideally matures into a hermit"), some pseudoscience about solitude and brain function, and an unfortunate comparison with prisoners in solitary confinement, who hardly have the luxury of choosing their solitude.
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YouTube CEO Susan WojcickiPhoto: Reed Saxon (AP)The best place online to lead us unsuspecting sheep from an innocent recipe video to either a defense of racialist pseudoscience or pushes pedophiles towards videos of kids has decided maybe, just maybe, it doesn't want to be known for those things anymore.
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Critics, however, would argue that faith in astrology apps is just another example of how people are turning away from science, data and research and toward junk and sometimes even harmful pseudoscience — much like they do when seeking out alternative health information like that offered by Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop, for example.
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I like to think that my tolerance for charlatans of the mind is low, but when it comes to the lotion I pat on my cheeks and the grease I smear on my legs, I'll consider anything — as impressionable as a passive, pseudoscience-prone young woman in a Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.
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There&aposs nothing particularly healthful, for instance, about the homeopathy aisle — a section of Whole Foods&apos Whole Body Department that sells 19th century pseudoscience masquerading as cold and flu remedies — or the shelves filled with supplements and probiotics making claims that often don&apost hold up to scientific scrutiny.
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Shortly before the publication of his book, Reich wrote an Op-Ed in The New York Times in which he warned that the future was likely to demonstrate some meaningful genetic differences among populations and that we needed to be honest about such truths, lest they be abused by racist pseudoscience.
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Among risks listed by the company include the failure of beamed energy propulsion launch systems, potential problems arising with researching telepathy on human subjects, and the fact that many of the technologies or phenomena being researched by the company are based on highly speculative theories that toe the line of pseudoscience.
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The result is a pseudoscience-encrusted version of New Age thinking, or perhaps a spiritualized version of body- and life-hacking, which suggests that a physically, psychically, and sexually optimized version of life is available to you — but only if you're willing to do the (often expensive and exhausting) work to optimize it.
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"However safe this drug regimen may appear in short term testing, there is too much hard evidence that, in the long term, many thousands of women will get breast cancer because they took these drugs," Dr. Joel Brind, one of the main religious advocates for the anti-abortion pseudoscience, told the committee.
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"Social media is absolutely an important space for medical professionals to be having conversations around things like public education, trying to combat some of the misinformation and pseudoscience that's just running rampant on all these different platforms," said Sarah Mojarad, a lecturer at the University of Southern California and science communications expert.
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The whole conspiracy theory, a mess of pseudoscience, claims that shadowy global cabals are tricking us with Photoshop and "fake science," and lots and lots of (misused and misunderstood) science jargon, ticks off so many boxes on the Indonesian conspiracy theory fringe's list of loves, that it almost seems tailor-made for this country.
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The array includes every sort of picture falling outside the realm of photography as it is usually understood, ranging across art, science and pseudoscience: X-rays; solarizations; effects produced by electrification, magnetization and chemical processes; even Louis Darget's "photographs of thought," from the 274s, which he allegedly realized by placing photosensitized plates on people's foreheads.
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But there's no solid research that food alone can treat someone's already developing, aggressive cancer (using drugs to directly stop angiogenesis in tumors to shrink them is a mainstream treatment, though), nor that reiki—a pseudoscience so ludicrous that a 9-year-old girl was able to debunk it 20 years ago—can do the same.
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This work, from a group of evidence-minded research nerds, is the closest thing we have to a recipe book for how to prevent health bunk from spreading in the first place: Instead of trying to change people's beliefs with facts, we need to teach them to call bullshit on pseudoscience drivel in the first place.
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But Aristotle too came unstuck, for, as Lindley explains, he would come up with a hypothesis about some aspect of nature, then sift through his data to cherry-pick those that agreed with it — committing what we would now call confirmation bias, which, by the way, is how a lot of pseudoscience and conspiracy theories on the internet work.
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As a scientist leading global efforts to develop vaccines for neglected poverty-related diseases like schistosomiasis and Chagas' disease, and as the dad of an adult daughter with autism and other disabilities, I'm worried that our nation's health will soon be threatened because we have not stood up to the pseudoscience and fake conspiracy claims of this movement.
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The name is anodyne, but the group is anything but: Perhaps he was so attracted to the AAPS vision of doctors as special and "outside of the herd" to the point that he ignored its simultaneous promotion of dangerous medical quackery, such as antivaccine pseudoscience blaming vaccines for autism, including a view that is extreme even among antivaccine activists, namely that the "shaken baby syndrome" is a "misdiagnosis" for vaccine injury; its HIV/AIDS denialism; its blaming immigrants for crime and disease; its promotion of the pseudoscience claiming that abortion causes breast cancer using some of the most execrable "science" ever; its rejection of evidence-based guidelines as an unacceptable affront on the godlike autonomy of physicians; or the way the AAPS rejects even the concept of a scientific consensus about anything.
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Charles Murray, who the Southern Poverty Law Center has rebuked for "using racist pseudoscience and misleading statistics to argue that social inequality is caused by the genetic inferiority of the black and Latino communities, women and the poor," co-wrote a book in 1994 where he claimed that poor people, especially blacks, are inherently less intelligent than white or Asian people.
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It's the story of FBI agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv), who tries to solve impossible-seeming cases with a strange team that includes Dr. Walter Bishop (John Noble), a brilliant but slightly insane scientist whose specialty is "fringe" or pseudoscience; his equally brilliant son, Peter (Joshua Jackson); assistant Astrid Farnsworth (Jasika Nicole); and poker-faced Colonel Phillip Broyles (Lance Reddick).
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And Oprah herself, with her Obama-endorsing, #MeToo politics and her tendency to mix spirituality with pseudoscience, is clearly somewhat on the blue-state side of that divide … … but only somewhat, because the divide between blue-state spirituality and red-state spirituality is much more porous than other divisions in our balkanized society, and the appeal of the spiritual worldview cuts across partisan lines and racial divides.
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By lending climate change denial and the anti-vaccine movement the authority and the legitimacy of his office, President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE could essentially make pseudoscience the law of the land.
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According to the National Library of Medicine's blog Circulating Now, the practice was used in antiquity to help balance a person's humors — this was back when doctors thought that all medical problems were caused by imbalances in four bodily fluids (black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood), a bizarre form of pseudoscience that endured for more than 2,000 years — and was later used to treat a range of conditions including psoriasis, lupus, and sleep disorders.
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When it comes to medical pseudoscience, I think people get duped because charlatans use medical terminology and science-y sounding words that the average person cannot recognize as gobbledegook; patients turn away from medicine when they are feeling hopeless, lost, and frustrated with the medical system (there is research showing a correlation between cancer patients feeling hopeless and out of control and the embrace of alternative cancer therapies); and medicine does not (yet) deal well with hard to explain, or frankly inexplicable, medical conditions.
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