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Pre-service Science Teachers’ Discrimination Level of Science and Pseudoscience

open access: yesScience Education International, 2018
This quantitative study aimed to examine Turkish pre-service science teachers’ beliefs regarding the demarcating between science and pseudoscience. Participants completed the Science and Pseudoscience Distinction Scale.
Murat Berat Uçar , Elvan Sahin
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Critical thinking, epistemological beliefs, and the science-pseudoscience distinction among teachers [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Pedagogical Research, 2023
This study used the structural equation model to examine teachers' scientific epistemological beliefs, critical thinking skills, and beliefs about the distinction between science and pseudoscience.
Menşure Alkış Küçükaydın   +3 more
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The scam of pseudoscience

open access: yesMetode Science Studies Journal, 2021
P Nombre y apellido seudosciences are by-products of the prestige of science as a social enterprise and as a means of obtaining knowledge. Their character is inherently negative, given that, by definition, a pseudoscience is an intellectual fraud consisting of products, practices, or ideas unconnected with scientific rationality that are asserted as ...
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I want to believe: Prior beliefs influence judgments about the effectiveness of both alternative and scientific medicine

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2023
Previous research suggests that people may develop stronger causal illusions when the existence of a causal relationship is consistent with their prior beliefs.
Lucía Vicente   +2 more
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Science and Pseudo-science in the Contemporary State Studies in Iran [PDF]

open access: yesدولت‌پژوهی, 2022
Generally speaking, scientific understanding of social phenomena such as government has been based on the evidence and arguments, but in practice, some people have gone astray and changed their direction to pseudo-scientific understanding, to the extent ...
Shoja Ahmadvand
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Computational linguistics and sentiment analysis of misconceptions in pharmacotherapy of osteoarthritis pain

open access: yesЭпилепсия и пароксизмальные состояния, 2023
Background. Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the leading causes of chronic pain in adults, wherein half of the cases is coupled to a neuropathic component. Agents with chondroprotective properties such as chondroitin sulfate (CS) and glucosamine sulfate (GS)
I. Yu. Torshin   +2 more
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CHARACTERISTICS OF PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC TEXTS

open access: yesЗаписки з романо-германської філології, 2018
The article deals with the exposure of examples of pseudoscientific discourse, as well as the investigation of its linguistic features (like use of weasel words, technical jargon and neuro-linguistic programming). Science is a complex concept.
А. В. Балацька
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Complementary Medicine in the Classroom: Is it Science?

open access: yesCurrent Issues in Education, 2023
This academic essay provides a strategy for teaching complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the classroom, a subject typically critiqued as unconventional and non-scientific.
Frank Trocco
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The Explanation-Polarisation Model: Pseudoscience Spreads Through Explanatory Satisfaction and Group Polarisation

open access: yesJournal of Social and Political Psychology, 2022
This article presents an integrative model for the endorsement of pseudoscience: the explanation-polarisation model. It is based on a combination of perceived explanatory satisfaction and group polarisation, offering a perspective different from the ...
Angelo Fasce
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