Apseudoscienceis a belief or process which masquerades as science in an attempt to claim a legitimacy which it would not otherwise be able to achieve on its own terms; it is often known asfringe-oralternativescience. The most important of its defects is usually the lack of the carefully con...
Addiction is a disorder of this reward system, and since the reward system is all about learning, researchers have called addiction a kind of “pathological learning”. We learn to crave things in excess of what is healthy, to the point where we actually learn behaviors that are detrimental r...
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academic journals (such as Physical Review Letters, Nature, Science, etc.) firmly believe that two high-dimensional spacetime objects (such as two sets of cobalt-60) rotating in opposite directions can be transformed into two objects that mirror each other, is a typical case of pseudoscience ...
Pseudoscience.Neuromarketing is often conflated withpseudoscienceand hype, and is not backed by credible neuroscientific claims. Critics like University of Pennsylvania professor Joseph Turow have dismissed it as a gimmicky way for marketers togain insight into consumer opinion. ...
Parapsychology has gained a lot of credibility over the past 100 years, but there is still a strong contingent of skeptics who see ESP studies as misguided at best and completely worthless pseudoscience at worst. For a number of these skeptics, the primary argument against ESP is, quite simply...
ASMR is still a fairly new concept — as such, there isn’t mountains of research to back up its benefits and drawbacks. However, ithasbeen linked to the ‘love hormone,’ oxytocin, and dopamine, the ‘happy hormone.’ Some people dismiss it as pseudoscience, and others remain skeptical ...
Word Decomposition 伪 wěi false; fake; forged; bogus; (prefix) pseudo- 装 zhuāng adornment; to adorn; dress; clothing; costume (of an actor in a play); to play a role; to pretend; to install; to fix; to wrap (something in a bag); to load; to pack...
1) What is Pseudoscience 伪科学究竟是什么2) What Is Philosophy and Is Not? 哲学究竟是什么 例句>> 3) Wat the dickens is it? 究竟是什么? 例句>> 4) What the dickens is it? 它究竟是什么?5) Why is it so? 这究竟是为什么?6) What is EDUCATION, anyway? 教育究竟是什么?
Phrenology is a pseudoscience that uses measurements of the human skull to determine personality traits, talents, and mental ability. This theory, developed by Franz Joseph Gall, became popular in the 19th century during the Victorian era, and its ideas would contribute to other emergent theories ...