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Maybe It’s Part of the Nature of Astrology, But Misinformation – Myth, if You Will – Seems to Rise Up Around It. Art, Religion, Science, Pseudoscience, Entertainment – Do We Even Know, Really, How to Classify the Thing? This Article Explores Some of the Top Myths About Horoscopes and Astrology.
Among the most notable developments in the history of pseudoscience in the 19th century are the rise of Spiritualism (traced in America to 1848), homeopathy (first formulated in 1796), and phrenology (developed around 1800). Another popular pseudoscientific belief that arose during the 19th...

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Deducing from this research the conclusion that reincarnation is a proven fact has been listed as an example of pseudoscience by skeptics. There is no evidence of a physical process by which a personality could survive death and travel to ...
AstrologyMaybe It’s Part of the Nature of Astrology, But Misinformation – Myth, if You Will – Seems to Rise Up Around It. Art, Religion, Science, Pseudoscience, Entertainment – Do We Even Know, Really, How to Classify the Thing? This Article ...
Therapeutic TouchCSI considers pseudoscience topics to include yogic flying, therapeutic touch, astrology, fire walking, voodoo magical thinking, Uri Geller, alternative medicine, channeling, Carlos hoax, psychic hotlines and detectives, near-death experiences, unidentified flying objects (UFOs), the Bermuda Triangle, homeopathy, faith healing, and ...
PsychokinesisOutside the mainstream scientific community, retrocausality has also been proposed as a mechanism to explain purported anomalies, paranormal events or personal events, but mainstream scientists generally regarded these explanations as pseudoscientific. Most notably, parapsychologist Helmut Schmidt presented quantum mechanical justifications ...
IridologyAmong the most notable developments in the history of pseudoscience in the 19th century are the rise of Spiritualism (traced in America to 1848), homeopathy (first formulated in 1796), and phrenology (developed around 1800). Another popular pseudoscientific belief that arose ...
PalmistryMoleosophy is a technique of divination and fortune telling based upon the observation and interpretation of bodily marks —- primarily those of the ”melanocytic nevus” condition (i.e. moles). Although divination by moles, birthmarks and blemishes has been practiced in many ...
Systems Of The Physical WorldPhysicists properly join today's arguments involving the teaching of Darwinian evolution. There is, however, a social issue even closer to the responsibility of physicists: quantum physics is increasingly invoked to promote pseudoscience.
ChromotherapyChromotherapy has been deemed pseudoscience by its critics, who state that the falsifiability and verifiability conditions necessary to deem an experiment valid are not being met, and therefore that it has not been proven that introducing colors is the key ...
AstrologyChristianity and astrology are seen as incompatible by modern orthodox Christian doctrine. Additionally, astrology stands juxtaposed against the roots of modern scientific reasoning. Generally, the scientific community and others educated in the scientific method consider astrology a pseudoscience or superstition. ...
ChromotherapyInherent difficulties in properly controlling trials of color’s effect on humans mean that a subject’s expectations and cultural bias cannot be ruled out. Moreover, much evidence is anecdotal (e.g. the blue street lighting case) or based on data that includes ...
IridologyIridology (also known as iridodiagnosis) is an alternative medicine technique whose proponents believe that patterns, colors, and other characteristics of the iris can be examined to determine information about a patient’s systemic health. Practitioners match their observations to ”iris charts,” ...
IridologySimilar to criticism which has been leveled at iridology and other alternative practices, skeptics point out that sclerology is founded in pseudoscience, claiming that there is no reason to assume that the condition of the sclera has any causal relation ...
Crystal HealingThe book was reviewed by Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who wrote in ”Behavioral Intentions” that the book revealed situations in which therapists can become “persuasive agents of destructive influence.”. Carroll stated that the book describes “..surreal pseudoscience at its worst.” He ...
PalmistryPalmistry or chiromancy (also spelled cheiromancy, Greek ”cheir” (χειρ), “hand”; ”manteia” (μαντεία), “divination”), is the art of characterization and foretelling the future through the study of the palm, also known as palm reading, or chirology. The practice is found all ...
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