pseudoscience (redirected fromFraudulent science) Thesaurus Medical pseu·do·sci·ence (so͞o′dō-sī′əns) n. A theory, methodology, or practice that is considered to be without scientific foundation. pseu′do·sci′en·tif′ic(-ən-tĭf′ĭk)adj. ...
Reports that the American Physical Society (APS) rejected the first draft of a statement defining science for the public. Concerns about the draft; Growing public belief in forms of pseudoscience; How the draft defines science; Nature of scientific results; Why the APS is producing the statement...
In Radio Lecture (30 Jun 1973) broadcast by the Open University, collected in Imre Lakatos, John Worrall (ed.) and Gregory Currie (ed.), 'Introduction: Science and Pseudoscience', The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes (1978, 1980), Vol. 1, 50. ...
2. PSEUDO-SCIENTIST Pseudo-scientists are people who pretend to produce science but, in fact, they generate pseudoscience. The demarkation of pseudo-science from science is sometimes difficult, as we have seen several times on this blog, e.g.: Characteristics of pseudoscience Science or P...
We all take it for granted that Science represents Truth or at least believe that Science takes us closer to Truth. Of course by definition that is what Science stands for. But is that what happening in practice? Is that stuff which we are all made to study, chant and believe as Science...
But he did not behave scientifically (consistent with definition 1 above) when he ignored the boundless evidence and prior art about heredity. Wikipedia dubs him a pseudoscientist, despite his having some successful theories and making testable hypotheses. Pseudoscience, says Wikipedia, makes un...
The answer clearly could not be that scientific statements are true and non-scientific ones false; he knew [14] "that science often errs, and that pseudoscience may happen to stumble on the truth." For example, we now know that both Thompson's "plum-pudding" model of the atom and ...
... I should think that anyone who considered it more reasonable for the whole universe to move in order to let the Earth remain fixed would be more irrational than one who should climb to the top of your cupola just to get a view of the city and its environs, and then demand that...
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All this would make this chapter into obscure pseudoscience if our purpose was to state true claims on (the evolution of) visual perception, or mathematical models thereof. But as we mentioned, our only purpose is to inspire software engineers to come up with new ideas for visual communication...