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Massimo Pigliucci (Italian: [ˈmassimo piʎˈʎuttʃi]; born January 16, 1964) [1] is an American philosopher and biologist who is professor of philosophy at the City College of New York, [2] former co-host of the Rationally Speaking Podcast, [3] and former editor in chief for the online magazine Scientia Salon. [4]
Films about pseudoscience, beliefs, or practices that are claimed to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method.Distinguishing scientific facts and theories from pseudoscientific beliefs, such as those found in climate change denial, astrology, alchemy, alternative medicine, occult beliefs, and creation science, is part of science education and scientific ...
Brian Andrew Dunning (born 1965) is an American writer and producer who focuses on science and skepticism. [1] He has hosted a weekly podcast, Skeptoid, since 2006, and he is an author of a series of books on the subject of scientific skepticism, some of which are based on the podcast.
This two-volume work provides a broad introduction to the most prominent pseudoscientific claims made in the name of science. Covering the popular, the academic, and the bizarre, the encyclopedia includes topics from alien abductions to the Bermuda Triangle, crop circles, Feng Shui, and near-death experiences.
Roots of the movement date at least from the 19th century, when people started publicly raising questions regarding the unquestioned acceptance of claims about spiritism, of various widely held superstitions, and of pseudoscience. [4] [5] Publications such as those of the Dutch Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij (1881) also targeted medical quackery.
The Ragged Edge of Science is a science book by L. Sprague de Camp, illustrated by Don Simpson.It was first published by Owlswick Press in 1980. [1] [2] [3]The book is a collection of twenty-two articles (two of them book reviews) on various curiosities and wonders exploring the boundaries between science and pseudo-science.
Rhonda Byrne (/ b ɜːr n / BURN; née Izon; born 1951, Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian television writer and producer.Her book The Secret is based on the pseudoscientific belief of the law of attraction, which claims that thoughts can change a person's life directly.
The book Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience stated "today, vitalism is one of the ideas that form the basis for many pseudoscientific health systems that claim that illnesses are caused by a disturbance or imbalance of the body's vital force." "Vitalists claim to be scientific, but in fact they reject the scientific method with its basic postulates ...