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Parent topics
- philosophy of science [r]: Philosophical study of the assumptions, foundations, and implications of science. [e]
- scientific method [r]: Systematic inquiry based on hypotheses and their testing in light of empirical evidence. [e]
- skepticism [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
- Afrocentrism [r]: Add brief definition or description
- alchemy [r]: Add brief definition or description
- astrology [r]: Any belief that correlates the patterns and positions of celestial bodies to human personalities, human affairs, or terrestrial events. [e]
- backmasking [r]: A recording technique in which an alleged sound or message is recorded backward onto a track that is meant to be played forward. [e]
- creationism [r]: is the belief that the world and the universe was created by God. [e]
- crystal healing [r]: Add brief definition or description
- extra-sensory perception [r]: Add brief definition or description
- hollow Earth theory [r]: Add brief definition or description
- graphology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- homeopathy [r]: System of medicine or alternative medicine that asserts that substances known to cause specific syndromes of symptoms can also, in very low and specially prepared doses, help to cure people who are ill with a similar syndrome of symptoms. [e]
- intelligent design [r]: Claim that fundamental features of the universe and living things are best explained by purposeful causation. [e]
- iridology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Trofim Lysenko [r]: Add brief definition or description
- polygraph [r]: Add brief definition or description
- therapeutic touch [r]: A form of energy healing, performed by a therapist positioning hands over the patient's body, and sensing and adjusting energy fields [e]
Other related topics
- alternative medicine [r]: Techniques which are not generally accepted in medicine and which are intended to be used as "whole systems" to the exclusion of conventional medicine (disputed definition). [e]
- cold reading [r]: Add brief definition or description
- confirmation bias [r]: Process of looking only for things which confirm your bias rather than disconfirm them; basis for many instances of pseudoscience. [e]
- conspiracy theory [r]: Belief that a covert and deceptive organization or people is responsible for important world events, and that these people are hiding their own involvement, acting from behind the scenes and spreading misinformation. [e]
- demarcation problem [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Feynman [r]: (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) An American physicist known for his scientific acumen, humor, and charismatic charm; drummer and painter of scandalous paintings; member of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, then Professor of Theoretical Physics at California Institute of Technology; Nobel Prize winner in Physics, 1965; staff, Manhattan Project [e]
- Forer effect [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fringe science [r]: Add brief definition or description
- New Age [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Occam's razor [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Karl Popper [r]: (July 28 1902 – September 17 1994), One of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century. [e]
- protoscience [r]: A field of study that appears to conform to the initial phase of the scientific method, but involves speculation. [e]
- self-deception [r]: Add brief definition or description
- wishful thinking [r]: Add brief definition or description
