Examples of Pseudoscience

Pseudoscience includes beliefs, theories, or practices that are believed to be or are considered scientific, without evidence of scientific facts. This may mean that they are scientifically rebuttal, can not be tested, or there is no evidence to support them.

2012 phenomenon - even in anticipation of 2012, even the end of the world will bring about a massive disaster

Ancient astronaut - We suggest foreigners who visited the Earth in the past and influenced our civilization

Facing Mars - The shape of Martian rock resembles a face and is considered evidence of life.

366 geometry or Boulder geometry - divide the circle into 366 degrees and used by Freemason

Bermuda triangle - events of unknown origin, such as loss of ships and planes

Cryptozoology - Find Bigf oot (Yeti), a monster of Loch Ness, El Chupacabra and other creatures who believe biologists do not exist

Super Sensing (ESP) - Describes several methods for acquiring information, such as perspective, telepathy, remote view.

Transformation therapy - trying to change the sexual orientation of a person from homosexuality to homosexuality

The polygraph - polygraph test is used to determine whether a subject is lying by measuring a change in a particular vital sign.

Psychoanalysis - This psychotherapy approach developed by Sigmund Freud remains controversial

Subliminal ad - receive data visually or audibly without knowing the data received

Developed by Dianetics - L. Ron Hubbard, this system is thought to treat all mental disorders by dealing with the relationship between body and mind.

As you can see, there are pseudoscientific examples in various fields and various fields.

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Biological rhythm - try to predict every aspect of human life through a simple mathematical cycle. Most scientists believe that this idea does not have predictability beyond coincidence, I believe this concept is an example of pseudoscience. For scientific research on physiological cycle such as circadian rhythm, see Time Biology. Body memory - Assume that the body itself can store not only the brain but also memory. This idea may be pseudoscientific since there is no known way to allow tissues outside the brain to store memory. Body memory is used to describe the memory of events where the brain can not store memory and is sometimes used to suppress memory recovery. These memories usually appear as phantom pain in one or more parts of the body - the body seems to remember past traumas

In psychology psychoanalysis provides a typical example; popper chooses this pseudoscience to compare it with relativity theory. Many diagnostic and testing methods in psychology, such as repressive memory, multihuman disability, Rorschach tests, are based on pseudoscience. Analysis of history is not usually experimental, so that field is not "scientific" in the general understanding of that field. It is meaningless to call history as a pseudoscience unless you can clarify or discount propositions using proof of archaeological evidence.