Chapter 1.2 Pseudoscience

Question 1

Pseudoscience

Answer 1

set of claims that seems scientific but isnt. lack of safe guards against confirmation bias and belief perseverance.

Question 1

Overuse of ad hoc immunizing hypothesis

Answer 1

Escape hatch or a loophole protection from falsification

Question 2

Overreliance on anecdotes

Answer 2

dissmis the other factors, lack of causation directly

Question 3

Terror Management Theory

Answer 3

knowing that we are going to die, leaves us a terror which we cope by adopting reassuring cultural worldviews. Like purpose of living

Question 4

Emotional Reasoning fallacy

Answer 4

Using emotions as guides for evaluating the validity of a claim.

Question 5

Bandwagon fallacy

Answer 5

A lot of people i know believe in this so it must be true

Question 6

Not me fallacy

Answer 6

believing that we are immune to errors in thinking that afflict other people

Question 7

Danger of pseudoscience

Answer 7

causing harm indirectly, blocks obtaining a treatment that works, direct harm or Inability to think as citizens