64 Quotes About Pseudoscience
- Author Raël
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All that happens in the human brain is but the result of electro-chemical reactions. Be it of love, hate, of pleasure, of suffering, of imagination, or all other states of mind, sentiment or sickness; the process depends in every case on the chemical reactions produced in the interior of the brain, and the resulting electrical impulses or messages, be they visual, auditory, based on memory, or an interpretation of new events based on elements that one has in the memory.
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- Author Michael Salter
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In the case of child abuse, the ‘false memory’ narrative provided a façade of scientific justification for the appealing belief that child abuse was not as serious as victimized children and adults would suggest.
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- Author Michael Salter
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In order to establish the narrative that innocent men have been the victims of an epidemic of false allegations, “moral panic” advocates have misrepresented child protection interventions and legal cases in significant ways (R. Cheit, 2014; Kitzinger, 2004; Michael Salter, 2016). This has included championing the cause of convicted sex offenders despite overwhelming evidence of guilt (R. Cheit, 2014; R. E. Cheit, 2001; Olio & Cornell, 1998).
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- Author Dean B. McLaughlin
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[Published pseudoscience] is a serious threat to education and, I believe, to the democratic principle itself…. No amount of lying will alter the truth,—but lying can alter the willingness of a people to accept the truth.
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- Author Pervez Hoodbhoy
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The new Islamic science, like Creationism in the West, is a reaction against modern science. It is not a new direction of science.
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- Author A.E. Samaan
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You cannot write an accurate history of The Holocaust without accounting for the Harvard students and professors that help make the science an acceptable world-wide movement.
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- Author Massimo Pigliucci
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…the boundaries separating science, nonscience, and pseudoscience are much fuzzier and more permeable than Popper (or, for that matter, most scientists) would have us believe. There is, in other words, no litmus test.
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- Author Samir Okasha
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The failure of Popper's demarcation criterion throws up an important question. Is it actually possible to find some common feature shared by all the things we call 'science...'? It may be that they share some fixed set of features that define what it is to be science, but it may not.... If so, a simple criterion for demarcating science from pseudo-science is unlikely to be found.
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- Author Jasim Uddin
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আমাদের দেশের লোকেরা যেমন ভুত, প্রেত, ওঝা পীর ও ফকিরে বিশ্বাস করে তেমনি হোমিওপ্যাথিক ঔষধে বিশ্বাস করে। এ দেশের লোক সব সময়ই কিছু বিশ্বাস করিবার জন্য প্রস্তুত হইয়া থাকে। যাহারা হোমিওপ্যাথিকে বিশ্বাস করে তাহারা বন্ধু সমাবেশে এই ঔষধের কার্যকারিতা সম্বন্ধে এমন সব রোমাঞ্চকর কাহিনী বানাইয়া বলে যে শ্রোতাদের মধ্যে কেউ যদি তাহা অবিশ্বাস করিতে চায়, তাহার পক্ষে সেখানে তিষ্ঠান দায় হইয়া পড়ে। সে গল্প যাহারা শোনে তাহারা আবার তাহাতে আরও কিছু রঙ চড়াইয়া অপরের কাছে বলে।
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