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[43] [116] [117] The concept of pseudoscience rests on an understanding that the scientific method has been misrepresented or misapplied with respect to a given theory, but many philosophers of science maintain that different kinds of methods are held as appropriate across different fields and different eras of human history. According to ...
Lysenko's theory rejected Mendelian inheritance and the concept of the "gene"; it departed from Darwinian evolutionary theory by rejecting natural selection, viewing that concept as being incompatible with Marxist ideology. [46] Biodynamic agriculture – method of organic farming that treats farms as unified and individual organisms.
Pseudoscience is a broad group of theories or assertions about the natural world that claim or appear to be scientific, but that are not accepted as scientific by the scientific community. Pseudoscience does not include most obsolete scientific or medical theories (see Category:Obsolete scientific theories ), nor does it include every idea that ...
Electrotherapy full of pseudo-science. Thehalfone 11:26, 12 November 2007 (UTC) Exploded Planet Hypothesis Seems at first glance a certain pseudo-science theory.. Danski14 05:23, 6 March 2007 (UTC) Photon Structure.. possible AfD or Speedy or Prod candidate. Danski14; Relativistic Variable Mass Synchrotron possible promotional essay.
The history of pseudoscience is the study of pseudoscientific theories over time. A pseudoscience is a set of ideas that presents itself as science, while it does not meet the criteria to properly be called such. [1] [2] Distinguishing between proper science and pseudoscience is sometimes difficult.
A torsion field (also called axion field, spin field, spinor field, and microlepton field) is a reoccurring feature of many pseudoscientific [2] proposals. It posits that the quantum spin of particles can be used to cause emanations to carry information through vacuum orders of magnitude faster than the speed of light.
Pseudoscientific language comparison is usually performed by people with little or no specialization in the field of comparative linguistics. It is a widespread type of linguistic pseudoscience. The most common method applied in pseudoscientific language comparisons is to search different languages for words that sound and mean alike.
Its purpose is to group sub-categories of people who advocate areas currently included under Category:Pseudoscience. For example, since Category:Astrology is categorized under Category:Pseudoscience , the corresponding Category:Astrologers is a subcategory here.