Pseudoscience

Short description: Pseudoscientific practices related to physics

Pseudophysics is a pseudoscientific practice using the language of physics or discussing issues related to or pertinent to physics to promote ideas which are either incoherent or contradictory to known physics (experimental phenomenology). According to physicists, skeptics, and science writers, pseudophysics tends to be promoted by so-called "cranks",^[1] whose ideas lack peer review, lack falsifiable predictions, and/or blatantly contradict scientific facts and experimental results. Mathematical physicist John C. Baez famously invented a crackpot index to give an idea of what sort of claims and rhetoric were commonplace among pseudophysics proposals he had come across.^[2]

References

↑ http://physics.about.com/b/2012/02/17/physicscranks.htm
↑ http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html

Paine, Michael, "Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit". Operation Clambake. 1998.
Shermer, M "Baloney Detection - How to draw boundaries between science and pseudoscience, Part I ", Scientific American 285 (5): 36-36 NOV 2001
Shermer, M "Baloney Detection - How to draw boundaries between science and pseudoscience, Part II", Scientific American 285 (6): 34-34 DEC 2001

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[1] ttp://physics.about.com/b/2012/02/17/physicscranks.htm

[2] ttp://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html

v t e Pseudoscience
Terminology	Cargo cult science Charlatan Crank Fringe theory Fringe science Pseudoarchaeology Pseudohistory Junk science Paranormal Pathological science Quackery Snake oil Superseded scientific theory True-believer syndrome Voodoo Science
Topics characterized as pseudoscience	2012 phenomenon Acupuncture Adrenal fatigue Alchemy Alternative medicine Ancient astronauts Anthroposophic medicine Applied kinesiology Aquatic ape hypothesis Astrology Bates method Biodynamic agriculture Bloodletting Body memory Catastrophism Chiropractic Chromotherapy Conspiracy theory 9/11 conspiracy theories Chemtrail conspiracy theory Climate change denial Moon landing conspiracy theories Conversion therapy Creation science Cryonics Cryptozoology Crystal healing Detoxification Colon cleansing Dianetics Doctrine of signatures Doktor Koster's Antigaspills Dowsing Ear candling Electromagnetic hypersensitivity Electronic voice phenomenon Eugenics Facilitated communication Feng shui Flat Earth theory Germ theory denialism Graphology HIV/AIDS denialism Hollow Earth theory Homeopathy Humorism Indigo children Intelligent design Japhetic theory Levitation Lunar effect Lysenkoism Magnet therapy Mediumship Naturopathy Nazi archaeology Nibiru cataclysm Numerology Orgone Palmistry Perpetual motion Phrenology Polygraph Primal therapy Pseudoarchaeology Pseudohistory Genocide denial Historical negationism Holocaust denial Pseudoscientific metrology Psychohistory Quantum mysticism Rapid prompting method Recovered-memory therapy Reiki Scientific racism Aryan race Melanin theory Trepanning Ufology Vertebral subluxation Voice stress analysis Water memory Cowpathy
Promoters of pseudoscience	Andrew Wakefield Deepak Chopra Gaia, Inc. Goop (company) Jenny McCarthy Mehmet Oz William Donald Kelley
Related topics	Bourgeois pseudoscience Demarcation problem Scientific method Suppressed research in the Soviet Union Traditional medicine
Resources	Committee for Skeptical Inquiry Cults of Unreason Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science Quackwatch JREF The Psychology of the Occult The Ragged Edge of Science The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience Skeptical Inquirer The Skeptic's Dictionary
List of topics characterized as pseudoscience

Pseudoscience

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