... pseudoscientific beliefs and Republican (vs. Democratic) party affiliation was associated with steeper declines in adherence to social distancing guidelines over time during the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 Social distancing Political party Pseudoscience Trust Just world beliefs In late 2019, an emerging...

...-Based Practice Attitude Scale; licensed clinical social workers; novel unsupported therapies; pseudoscience linical social workers comprise the largest in the absence of evidence as “novel unsupported number of mental health providers in the treatments” (NUTs...

... Zervopoulos John A empirical evidence forensic experts Lamb M E family courts Saini M parenting plan evaluation expert testimony scientific method pseudoscience Social science research must be the foundation of mental health experts’ conclusions and opinions about parents and children in litigated...

...Science fiction of the 1970s catered to audiences who believed in pseudoscience and the paranormal over the rational explanation. Writers produced works that shared many similarities with supernatural horror and expressed anxiety about the state of the family. This is evident...

... psychosomatics nazism totalitarism pseudoscience training analysis Bormuth M Freud S ‘Critique of Psychoanalysis’ Jaspers General Psychopathology Allgemeine Psychopathologie Jaspers historical background psychiatric institutions asylums psychosis Abraham K Bleuler E Jung C G Kraepelin E dementia...

... of scientific boundary disputes that is invaluable for the creation of genealogies of subjugated knowledges. Foucault Michel Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus Shelley Pseudoscience Shelley Mary Descartes René Extrasensory perception Halley Edmond Hollow earth theory Hooke Robert Kircher Athanasius...

...This chapter talks about evolution and its existence, although evolutionary theorizing didn't really rise above the status of a pseudoscience. People could see only too clearly that evolution existed on the back of what many considered the very iffy ideology of cultural progress. One mark...

...This chapter recasts the demarcation problem in terms of epistemic warrant. It proposes a definition of pseudoscience that differs from most previous proposals by operating on a higher level of epistemic generality. It defends that feature of the definition and explains how it contributes...

...This chapter examines the demographics of pseudoscientific and the problems in finding agreement among scientists, philosophers, and historians of science on how best to demarcate science from pseudoscience. It examines how science is defined as a way of distinguishing it from pseudoscience; some...

...This chapter examines arguments for the view that any science of the supernatural must be a pseudoscience. It shows that many of these arguments are not good arguments. It also argues that, contrary to recent philosophical discussions, the appeal to the supernatural should not be ruled out...

...This chapter enlists David Hume to help navigate the treacherous territory between science and religious pseudoscience and to assess the epistemic credentials of supernaturalism. It argues that the boundary between the naturalism of science and the supernaturalism of religion—and, by extension...

... Jacques skepticism Freudian psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud pseudoscientists pseudoscience Psychoanalysis is the paradigmatic pseudoscience of our epoch … with its facile explanation of adult behavior by reference to unobservable and arbitrarily posited childhood fantasy. —Frederick Crews ( 1995 , 9...

...This chapter distinguishes between two mindsets about science—the deductivist mindset and inductivist mindset—and explores the cognitive styles relating to authority and tradition in both science and pseudoscience. The deductivist tends to see problems as questions to be resolved by deduction from...

... research epistemology necessary and sufficient conditions Bacon Francis irrationality Kuhn Thomas Polanyi Michael Quine W V O equivocation puzzle rhetoric bias circularity Fodor Jerry Laudan Larry methodology politics Popper Karl illusion science pseudoscience conviction rational...

... thrust of his interdisciplinary work Half-Caste articulated this vision alongside his efforts to debunk Nazi pure race theory pseudoscience and to establish, "scientifically" (in terms of eugenics), the genetic superiority of people of mixed-race (i.e. heterozygosity). Others argued...

...Pained. Michael D. Stein and Sandro Galea, Oxford University Press (2020). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197510384.001.0001 This chapter demonstrates how arguments against abortion are often based on pseudoscience. Twenty-nine states, home to 88 million women...

... and as such had the status of a pretender to real science, as a pseudoscience. The importance of Progress is shown through the fiction of William Godwin, the connections between Progress and evolution are shown through the versifications of Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles), and the opposition...

... to this license, all rights are reserved. This chapter examines the reinvention of historical forms of pseudoscience, such as physiognomy and phrenology, through artificial intelligence-enabled facial recognition. The scientifically racist misuse of machine learning is illustrated through analyses of two examples...

... mental health–related science at their peril. depression mental health paranoia psychosis addiction Brandolini Alberto disinformation misinformation propaganda pseudoscience science X formerly Twitter wellness culture on phrase the science pseudoscience mental health mental illness...

...This chapter details the evolution and seduction of mental health–related pseudoscience. It begins by providing historical and modern-day examples of snake oil, couching them in the context of the author’s personal and clinical experiences. It illustrates the nature of pseudoscience, delineating...