Pseudoscience Chicanery

Pseudoscience masquerades as science, usually to promote some commercial scam or to promote religious beliefs for which there is not, nor ever will be, supportive evidence.

The subject matter of pseudoscientific claims ranges from astrology and the occult to anti-science, religiously motivated falsehoods.

By my definition, to lay claim to being legitimately within the sphere of scientific knowledge, the claim must:
A) For physical evidence that is not subject to experimental verification: exist as tangible evidence that is uncovered under controlled conditions and is interpreted in accordance with current knowledge – for example, a paleontological fossil, an anthropological artefact, an archeological find. That same fossil, artefact, or ruin cannot be considered to fall within the realm of science when it has been unearthed without any attention to its context, or experimental verification of its associations and age.

B) For experimentally generated empirical data: the scientific method can be applied to physical data that is experimentally testable, repeatable, and, ideally, falsifiable. The experimental data must be logically interpreted in accordance with current knowledge.

Talking or writing about science is not science. Criticizing or critiquing science is not science. Elaborating mumbo-jumbo about supposed medical treatments without clinical testing is not science. Concocting falsehoods designed to protect unjustified belief in disproved Special Creation is definitely not science.

In order to ignorantly support illogical, indoctrinated religious mythology, creationists deny scientific knowledge, attack a straw man version of science, and falsify science as lie-oramas in the Fiction Lie-See-Um, or tout Misleading Pseudoscience for Dummies on junk tanks. " Creationism has been discredited, however, by indisputable physical evidence – carbon dating, for example."[SW]

Quo Vadis?
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External : Science Week editorials : Creationism vs. Sanity : SCIENCE POLICY: ON THE TEACHING OF PSEUDOSCIENCE :

Quo Vadis?

As the number of posts mounted, the site map became cumbersome and slow to load, so we have subdivided the map into sectional maps by category:


ɷɷ Atheism Theism Backlash
ɷɷ Bible Bumping
ɷɷ Canadian Bacon
ɷɷ Department of Silly Ideas
ɷɷ Design Debunked
ɷɷ EQ (emotional IQ)
ɷɷ Evolution of Ideas
ɷɷ Ex Ducare (Education)
ɷɷ Fancy Ticklers
ɷɷ FLQ (Functional Level of IQ)
ɷɷ FOL-ly (Fallacies of Logic)
ɷɷ Galleria
ɷɷ Love of Wisdom (Philosophy)
ɷɷ Nuts' Landing
ɷɷ Oh, the Humanities
ɷɷ Peregrinations
ɷɷ Political Shenanigans
ɷɷ Q & A
ɷɷ ¿Que es Mimble Wimble?
ɷɷ Quizling
ɷɷ Scientia
ɷɷ Sitia non Grata
ɷɷ Theocracy Aversion
ɷɷ Variegata dysfunctionosa
ɷɷ What's in a Word
ɷɷ Odds at End

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ɷɷ A-Deism ɷɷ Atheism Theism Backlash ɷɷ Bible Bumping ɷɷ Canadian Bacon ɷɷ Department of Silly Ideas ɷɷ Design Debunked ɷɷ Education ɷɷ EQ ɷɷ Evolution/Ideas ɷɷ Fancy Ticklers ɷɷ FLQ ɷɷ FOL-ly ɷɷ Galleria ɷɷ Love of Wisdom ɷɷ Nuts’ Landing ɷɷ Oh, the Humanities! ɷɷ Peregrinations ɷɷ Political Shenanigans ɷɷ Q & A ɷɷ ¿Que es Mimble Wimble? ɷɷ Quizling ɷɷ Scientia ɷɷ Sitia non Grata ɷɷ Theocracy ɷɷ Variegata dysfunctionosa ɷɷ What's in a Word ɷɷ Odds at End ɷɷ

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