Pseudoscience Flashcards
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How do we test Pseudoscience ?
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- Carefully controlled expirements
- comparison of data to the claims often
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Pseudoscience is ?
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A set of claims and beliefs that walks and talks like science but In face has no basis in experimental evidence
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Examples of Pseudoscience
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-Astrology
-esp
-aliens
Conspiracy theories
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The Barnum Effect
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finding personal meaning in a general statement that could apply to anybody
