Pseudoscience

Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that are claimed to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method. Pseudoscience is often characterized by contradictory, exaggerated or unfalsifiable claims; reliance on confirmation bias rather than rigorous attempts at refutation; lack of openness to evaluation by other experts; absence of systematic practices when developing hypotheses; and continued adherence long after the pseudoscientific hypotheses have been experimentally discredited. The term pseudoscience is considered pejorative, because it ...more

Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
Chariots of the Gods
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Bad Science
The 12th Planet (Earth Chronicles, #1)
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
Worlds in Collision
Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions
Gods from Outer Space
The Mothman Prophecies
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
Bad Astronomy
Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience: 2 volumes

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