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2022
Abstract Pseudoscientific techniques helped campus misinformation grow in popularity and intellectual legitimacy during the late 2010s. The pretense of data-driven scientific argument played a crucial role in elevating campus misinformation to a semipermanent form of punditry and intellectual commentary.
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Abstract Pseudoscientific techniques helped campus misinformation grow in popularity and intellectual legitimacy during the late 2010s. The pretense of data-driven scientific argument played a crucial role in elevating campus misinformation to a semipermanent form of punditry and intellectual commentary.
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2009
More than just a collection of factual entries, this rich resource explores the difference between scientific and pseudoscientific pursuits in a way that spurs readers to ask questions and formulate answers. What makes science science? How do we tell which assertions, beliefs, and methods are scientifically sound, and which are not?
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More than just a collection of factual entries, this rich resource explores the difference between scientific and pseudoscientific pursuits in a way that spurs readers to ask questions and formulate answers. What makes science science? How do we tell which assertions, beliefs, and methods are scientifically sound, and which are not?
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2018
In a post-truth, fake news world, we are particularly susceptible to the claims of pseudoscience. When emotions and opinions are more widely disseminated than scientific findings, and self-proclaimed experts get their expertise from Google, how can the average person distinguish real science from fake? This book examines pseudoscience from a variety of
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In a post-truth, fake news world, we are particularly susceptible to the claims of pseudoscience. When emotions and opinions are more widely disseminated than scientific findings, and self-proclaimed experts get their expertise from Google, how can the average person distinguish real science from fake? This book examines pseudoscience from a variety of
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Antiaging Technology and Pseudoscience
Science, 2002Constance Holden accurately describes the range of opinions in the field of aging research concerning the possible efficacy of future life-extension technologies and the lack of any antiaging medicines today (Bodybuilding: The Bionic Human, “The quest to reverse time's toll,” 8 Feb., p. [1032][1]).
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Motivation, cognition and pseudoscience
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 1998The article proposes a framework that views pseudoscientific beliefs as a joint function of the basic social motives and the default way of processing everyday information. The interplay between the basic motives and experiential thinking is illustrated with three examples.
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Freud, bullshit, and pseudoscience
Studies in History and Philosophy of ScienceThis paper critically examines the validity of Freudian psychoanalysis within the framework of Moberger's characterisation of pseudoscience as bullshit with scientific pretensions. The central question addressed is whether Freudian psychoanalysis qualifies as "bullshit," following Moberger's guideline of looking for systematic fallacies.
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