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ADJECTIVE
- based on theories and methods erroneously regarded as scientific
How To Use pseudoscientific In A Sentence
- The story of Fermat's Last Theorem, the centuries spent trying to find a proof and Professor - now Sir - Andrew Wiles's final victory, is recounted in a book by Simon Singh , a physicist and author also famous for his battle to change the libel laws after he was sued for calling pseudoscientific medical treatments "bogus" . Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- However, when I look at what people who call themselves aromatherapists claim, I have to conclude that aromatherapy is a mostly a pseudoscientific alternative medical therapy.
- Nevertheless, Backster has become the darling of several occult, parapsychological and pseudoscientific notions.
- This expansion was justified by pseudoscientific argument, grounded in a vulgarized version of Darwin, the ‘survival of the fittest.’
- In doing so, the article should not appear either to endorse or to rebutt the proposition that any given area is "pseudoscientific", as a key issue in dispute is whether the term has more than perjorative content. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
- Thus it should be possible to use deductive logic to derive predictions from pseudoscientific hypotheses.
- If the attempts are successful, students will be indoctrinated with pseudoscientific beliefs and will leave school with warped and restricted views of reality.
- The handheld device has no electronic components and is said to operate on the unproven, pseudoscientific "dowsing" principle used to search for water. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
- Marxism, and Freudian psychoanalysis are all 'pseudoscientific' because they make no predictions by which their truth can be judged; accordingly they cannot be falsified by experimental tests, and have thus no connection with the real world. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
- Of course the difference between Kant and Dembski is huge, most of all the fact that Kant was a scientist, and he would not tolerate the kind of pseudoscientific nonsense that Dembski puts out–not as science anyway he could have been more cautious in philosophy, for sure. Eugenie Scott: The Big Tent and the Camel's Nose - The Panda's Thumb