64 Quotes About Pseudoscience
- Author Angela Saini
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Nobody has ever found any genes linking ethnicity or race to school results. Like Henry Garrett half a century earlier, [Gerhard] Meisenberg chooses to skip over the social, historical, and economic aspects of racial inequality. Rather, he believes that scientific evidence that doesn't yet exist will explain the gaps eventually. He takes it as given that the answer must be biological.
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- Author Eric Bronson
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Racism watching is a puzzle solving activity and often involves debunking pseudo-science. The investigator must try to figure out what makes people believe in weird ideas. As Stieg said in an interview, ‘Fifty years later, people still believe in this; the whole Neo-Nazi movement. There is absolutely no sense in this. They do it contrary to everything science tells us. Contrary to human goodness or altruism, contrary to rational thinking. And this is fascinating, why?
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- Author Abhijit Naskar
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There's a difference between an open mind and an empty head.
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- Author Arthur Schopenhauer
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Lack of the power to discriminate is no less evident in the sciences, namely in the tenacious life of false and refuted theories. Once come into general credit, they continue to defy truth for centuries.- On Various Subjects
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- Author Frederick Crews
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Psychoanalysis is the paradigmatic pseudoscience of our epoch . . . with its facile explanation of adult behavior by reference to unobservable and arbitrarily posited childhood fantasy
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- Author Giharu Si Perempuan Gunung
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The freedom is really free only happened in this life: after life is pseudo freedom
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- Author Daniel Drake
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Every quack is, indeed, a demagogue; and relies, for his success on nearly the same arts, with his political and religious, or rather irreligious, brethren.
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- Author Paul Gibbons
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Don't let Deepak Chopra manage your change program.
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- Author Tim Minchin
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You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.
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