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Pseudoscience
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Pseudoscience
A philosophy described by Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann as ‘the dissociation of belief from evidence’
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As a pseudoscientist, you are more likely to cherry-pick the evidence, ignore what doesn't fit, and you create a coherent story.
WHAT WOULD DARWIN DO by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
He makes two crucial observations: that the more sophisticated pseudoscientists have taken to falling back on postmodern arguments when the credibility of their evidence is challenged and that some postmodernists display a strong interest in--and influence on--pseudoscience.
Transgressing against the postmodernists by Thompson, Damian / The American Conservative
Many pseudoscientists and self-help authors, such as Deepak Chopra (2004), feed on such sentiments.
Psychology is a behavioral science, not a biological science. A ... by Greenberg, Gary; Lambdin, Charles / The Psychological Record
 
 
 
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