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Pseudoscience can have dangerous effects. For example, pseudoscientific anti-vaccine activism and promotion of homeopathic remedies as alternative disease treatments can result in people forgoing important medical treatments with demonstrable health benefits, leading to ill-health and deaths.
In philosophy of science and epistemology, the demarcation problem is the question of how to distinguish between science and non-science. [1] It also examines the boundaries between science, pseudoscience and other products of human activity, like art and literature and beliefs.
The epidemiologist Michael Osterholm called it "a dangerous mix of pixie dust and pseudoscience". [174] Craniosacral therapy – is a form of bodywork or alternative therapy using gentle touch to manipulate the synarthrodial joints of the cranium. A practitioner of craniosacral therapy may also apply light touches to a patient's spine and pelvis.
In modern times, it has been argued that right-wing politics carries an anti-science tendency. While some have suggested that this is innate to either rightists or their beliefs, others have argued it is a "quirk" of a historical and political context in which scientific findings happened to challenge or appeared to challenge the worldviews of ...
American inventor Leonarde Keeler testing his improved polygraph on Arthur Koehler, a former witness for the prosecution at the 1935 trial of Richard Hauptmann. A polygraph, often incorrectly referred to as a lie detector test, [1] [2] [3] is a pseudoscientific [4] [5] [6] device or procedure that measures and records several physiological indicators such as blood pressure, pulse, respiration ...
Denialism – Person's choice to deny psychologically uncomfortable truth; Factoid – Invented claim or trivial fact; Fringe theory – Idea which departs from accepted scholarship in the field; Fringe science – Inquiries far outside of mainstream science; Frye standard – U.S. legal test on the admissibility of scientific evidence
An attempt to link Morgellons to the cause of Lyme disease has been attacked by Steven Salzberg as "dangerous pseudoscience". [34] Multiple chemical sensitivity [35] [36] is an unrecognized controversial diagnosis characterized by chronic symptoms attributed to exposure to low levels of commonly used chemicals.
Fringe science refers to ideas whose attributes include being highly speculative or relying on premises already refuted. [1] Fringe science theories are often advanced by people who have no traditional academic science background, or by researchers outside the mainstream discipline.