Essay On Pseudoscience

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Pseudoscience and its Warning Signs According to the Webster dictionary, pseudoscience is defined as “a system of theories, assumptions, and methods erroneously regarded as scientific.”(Merriam-Webster) There are actually many forms of pseudoscience that people believe are legitimate science. This is because they either want to believe something is true, or they just don’t know how to tell the difference between pseudoscience and real science. The most effective way to recognize pseudoscience is knowing the eight warning signs of pseudoscience. These warning signs allow for an individual to recognize when something might be pseudoscience, so they can look into it and decide whether it is or not. If anything contains one of the eight warning …show more content…

Believe it or not, there is still a small group of people who believe this. One claim made by an article supporting this is that it is proven that the Earth is not round, which qualifies it as pseudoscience. This article says, “…explores several more modern proofs that the Earth is not spinning, rotating, revolving, tilting, wobbling, or shooting through infinite space as NASA has brainwashed us to believe.”(Proof the Earth Is Not Spinning, Rotating, or Revolving) This qualifies as pseudoscience because it talks of proof rather than …show more content…

More people need to learn the warning signs to decrease the amount of pseudoscience perceived as facts. If more people know pseudoscience when they see it, they can make sure it gets credited as such, which makes it so that articles and claims are forced to have factual evidence to back them up. This is why it is very important to know and to understand the warning signs of pseudoscientific claims.

Works Cited
Robinson, Nathan. "Forensic Pseudoscience." Forensic Pseudoscience. 16 Nov. 2015. Web. 23 Nov. 2015.
"Forensic Pseudoscience." Scientific American 313.3 (2015): 95. Academic Search Premier. Web. 23 Nov. 2015.
"Proof The Earth Is Not Spinning, Rotating, Or Revolving." Ifers.boards.net. Web. 25 Nov. 2015.
"Pseudoscience." Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 24 Nov. 2015.
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