List of pseudoscience topics (English Wikipedia)

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  • DellaSala, Gene (17 February 2014). "Audio Interconnect and Speaker Cable Myths and Facts Revealed". audioholics.com. Retrieved 4 June 2026. What many exotic cable manufacturers do is start off with a real engineering premise and stretch them beyond what would even be considered believable as Star Trek physics, hence the pseudoscience is born.

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  • Robert Harley (28 May 2008). "Blind Listening Tests are Flawed: An Editorial". The Absolute Sound. Archived from the original on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2026. ...blind listening tests fundamentally distort the listening process and are worthless in determining the audibility of a certain phenomenon.

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  • Encyclopædia Britannica: Aryan. "This notion, which had been repudiated by anthropologists by the second quarter of the 20th century, was seized upon by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis and made the basis of the German government policy of exterminating Jews, Gypsies, and other 'non-Aryans.'".
  • "Transcendental Meditation". Britannica Online Encyclopedia. 7 December 2023.

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  • "Abortion and Cancer Risk". www.cancer.org. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2023.
  • "Colon Therapy". American Cancer Society. Archived from the original on 24 April 2015.
  • "Electromagnetic Therapy". American Cancer Society. Archived from the original on 4 February 2008. Retrieved 6 February 2008. There is no relationship between the conventional medical uses of electromagnetic energy and the alternative devices or methods that use externally applied electrical forces. Available scientific evidence does not support claims that these alternative electrical devices are effective in diagnosing or treating cancer or any other disease.

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  • Helwig, David (2004). "Radionics". In Longe, Jacqueline L. (ed.). The Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine. Gale Cengage. ISBN 978-0-7876-7424-3. Archived from the original on 6 April 2008. Retrieved 7 February 2008.

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  • Storr, Will (13 July 2014). "Hollow Earth conspiracy theories: the hole truth". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
  • Nicolia, Alessandro; Manzo, Alberto; Veronesi, Fabio; Rosellini, Daniele (2013). "An overview of the last 10 years of genetically engineered crop safety research" (PDF). Critical Reviews in Biotechnology. 34 (1): 77–88. doi:10.3109/07388551.2013.823595. PMID 24041244. S2CID 9836802. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 19 April 2023. We have reviewed the scientific literature on GE crop safety for the last 10 years that catches the scientific consensus matured since GE plants became widely cultivated worldwide, and we can conclude that the scientific research conducted so far has not detected any significant hazard directly connected with the use of GM crops. [...] The literature about Biodiversity and the GE food/feed consumption has sometimes resulted in animated debate regarding the suitability of the experimental designs, the choice of the statistical methods or the public accessibility of data. Such debate, even if positive and part of the natural process of review by the scientific community, has frequently been distorted by the media and often used politically and inappropriately in anti-GE crops campaigns.

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  • "Iridology". Natural Standard. 7 July 2005. Archived from the original on 24 August 2010. Retrieved 1 February 2008. Research suggests that iridology is not an effective method to diagnose or help treat any specific medical condition.

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  • Pal, SK (March 2002). "Complementary and alternative medicine: An overview". Current Science. 82 (5): 518–524. JSTOR 24105958.
  • Nye, M.J. (1980). "N-rays: An episode in the history and psychology of science". Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences. 11 (1): 125–156. doi:10.2307/27757473. JSTOR 27757473.

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  • "MBTI® Basics". The Myers & Briggs Foundation. Archived from the original on 12 October 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2021.

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  • Thomas, John A. (2002). "Graphology Fact Sheet". North Texas Skeptics. Retrieved 22 February 2008. In summary, then, it seems that graphology as currently practiced is a typical pseudoscience and has no place in character assessment or employment practice. There is no good scientific evidence to justify its use, and the graphologists do not seem about to come up with any.

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  • Reich, Walter. The world of Soviet psychiatry. The New York Times. 30 January 1983 accessdate=1

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  • Hirvonen, Ilmari; Karisto, Janne (13 February 2022). "Demarcation without Dogmas". Theoria. 88 (3): 701–720. doi:10.1111/theo.12395. eISSN 1755-2567. hdl:10138/345499. ISSN 0040-5825. S2CID 246834442. On the one hand, there is science denialism, such as climate change scepticism, the anti-vaccination movement, and holocaust denial, which attacks well-established scientific theories and practices. On the other hand, there is the promotion of pseudotheory, the attempt to get doctrines like homoeopathy and intelligent design accepted as sciences even though they have no warrant for such merit (Hansson, 2017). Both types of pseudoscience have harmful effects on health, environment, education, and society...Paradigmatic pseudosciences can also be very different from one another. Think of, say, intelligent design, Holocaust denial, ancient astronaut hypothesis, homoeopathy, the anti-vaccine movement, astrology, or climate change scepticism. Because there are different forms of pseudoscience, one cannot rule out the possibility that different criteria are needed to distinguish them from science.

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  • Nicolia, Alessandro; Manzo, Alberto; Veronesi, Fabio; Rosellini, Daniele (2013). "An overview of the last 10 years of genetically engineered crop safety research" (PDF). Critical Reviews in Biotechnology. 34 (1): 77–88. doi:10.3109/07388551.2013.823595. PMID 24041244. S2CID 9836802. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 19 April 2023. We have reviewed the scientific literature on GE crop safety for the last 10 years that catches the scientific consensus matured since GE plants became widely cultivated worldwide, and we can conclude that the scientific research conducted so far has not detected any significant hazard directly connected with the use of GM crops. [...] The literature about Biodiversity and the GE food/feed consumption has sometimes resulted in animated debate regarding the suitability of the experimental designs, the choice of the statistical methods or the public accessibility of data. Such debate, even if positive and part of the natural process of review by the scientific community, has frequently been distorted by the media and often used politically and inappropriately in anti-GE crops campaigns.

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  • Barrett, Stephen (15 May 2004). "Why Cranial Therapy Is Silly". Quackwatch. Archived from the original on 30 October 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
  • Courcey, Kevin. "Further Notes on Therapeutic Touch". Quackwatch. Retrieved 5 December 2007. What's missing from all of this, of course, is any statement by Krieger and her disciples about how the existence of their energy field can be demonstrated by scientifically accepted methods.

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  • Pigliucci, Massimo (April 2011). "Evolution as pseudoscience?". Ruse's somewhat surprising yet intriguing claim is that "before Charles Darwin, evolution was an epiphenomenon of the ideology of [social] progress, a pseudoscience and seen as such..."

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  • "God is in the Nuances". 19 January 2000. Retrieved 25 March 2007. The "Letters" pages have been filled by readers who have taken us to task for not adhering to rigorous scientific methods in the evaluation of components, those rigorous scientific methods usually being equated with double-blind listening. Other readers have praised the magazine for its stance that an educated listener in a familiar, relaxed environment will be more accurate in his or her assessment than an average of trained and untrained listeners in unfamiliar, stressful circumstances.

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  • "Paranormal". The Free Dictionary. Retrieved 3 February 2008.

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  • Behar, Doron M.; Metspalu, Mait; Baran, Yael; Kopelman, Naama M.; Yunusbayev, Bayazit; Gladstein, Ariella; Tzur, Shay; Sahakyan, Havhannes; Bahmanimehr, Ardeshir; Yepiskoposyan, Levon; Tambets, Kristiina; Khusnutdinova, Elza K.; Kusniarevich, Aljona; Balanovsky, Oleg; Balanovsky, Elena; Kovacevic, Lejla; Marjanovic, Damir; Mihailov, Evelin; Kouvatsi, Anastasia; Traintaphyllidis, Costas; King, Roy J.; Semino, Ornella; Torroni, Antonio; Hammer, Michael F.; Metspalu, Ene; Skorecki, Karl; Rosset, Saharon; Halperin, Eran; Villems, Richard; Rosenberg, Noah A. (2013). "No Evidence from Genome-Wide Data of a Khazar Origin for the Ashkenazi Jews". Human Biology. 85 (41): 859–900. doi:10.1353/hub.2013.a548065.

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