Pseudo Science


Chariots of the Gods
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Gods from Outer Space
Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
Bad Science
Outliers: The Story of Success
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism
The Gold of the Gods
Criss Jami
Like all great things which then become fashions, science, as now the universal stamp of approval, probably receives more abuse than any other field of study. Glaze the word itself over whatever vague ideology one may presume ratified, no matter the degree of pseudo-science or lack of scholarly credibility packaged within, and the many will consume it like gravy on a feast. My thought for the time is that as the promise of true science increases, so shall rise its many more superficial counterpa ...more
Criss Jami, Healology

To take a specific example, a researcher in the Journal of Traumatic Stress interviewed 129 women with documented histories of child sexual abuse that occurred between the ages of 10 months and 12 years. Of those, 38 percent had forgotten the abuse. Of the remaining women who remembered, 16 percent reported that they had for a period of time forgotten but subsequently recovered their memories. [46] Thus, during that time a "false negative" recorded for those women. These are the sort of distinct ...more
Janet Walker, Trauma Cinema: Documenting Incest and the Holocaust

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