Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening. — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
“Isaac Asimov’s remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: ‘Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Pseudoscience describes theories that sound like science but are actually just made up, like aromatherapy or biorhythms or love. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
"Hello" is pseudoscience. The only smart way to read it is not to believe in it, not to trust it, or to… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
“It may be that there are kernels of truth in a few of these doctrines, but their widespread acceptance betokens a lack… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
But to measure cause and effect... you must ensure that a simple correlation, however tempting it may be, is not mistaken for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Why does Alexander the Great never tell us about the exact location of his tomb, Fermat about his Last Theorem, John Wilkes… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The multiverse as a real physical construct within physics overlapping with a more mystical understanding of many possible worlds - the notion… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
It is no defense of superstition and pseudoscience to say that it brings solace and comfort to people. . . . If… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
...Which brings me to the Hubble Space Telescope's newest images. If it's wonder that you're looking for, and mystery, don't just scan… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
“Pseudoscience often relies on a witches' brew of scientific terms (e.g. "wavelength," "energy fields," "vibrations") half-baked into simplistic metaphors that do not… — K Lee Lerner Copy Share Image
“Facts count. Conspiracy theories, usually the refuge of the bitter or disempowered, range from factually challenged to wildly hallucinogenic. Conspiracy theories are… — K. Lee Lerner Copy Share Image
“Hijacking by pseudoscience and bad science fiction is a threat to our legitimate sense of wonder.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Pseudoscience is embraced, it might be argued, in exact proportion as real science is misunderstood.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Sen. Claire McCaskill Brings Down the Hammer on Pseudoscience-Purveyor Dr.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is climate change pseudoscience? If I'm going to answer the question, the answer is: absolutely. — Ivar Giaever Copy Share Image
The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Pseudoscience speaks to powerful emotional needs that science often leaves unfulfilled. It caters to fantasies about personal powers we lack and long… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“When explicit thinking patterns were in charge, light waves of particular lengths were thought to stimulate Jenny’s optical nerve, changing hue of… — Judy Byington Copy Share Image
I'm not against entertainment: if someone wants to read nonsense-mongers, let them, but I resent the appearance of parity between two articles… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of… — Franz Cumont Copy Share Image
“Sheep used to have wings. One flew into the sky and all the others followed. They took their wings off while feeding… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
Science and mathematics [are] much more compelling and exciting than the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Chiropractic, which celebrated its centennial in 1995, is a curious mixture of science and pseudoscience, sense and nonsense. Much of it is… — Samuel Homola Copy Share Image
“science makes progress not by proving its theories right-because that's impossible-but by eliminating an increasing number of wrong theories. Pseudoscience, however, does… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Although the terminology implies scientific endorsement, false memory syndrome is not currently an accepted diagnostic label by the APA and is not… — Michelle Rae Hebl Copy Share Image
“Treating Abuse Today (Tat), 3(4), pp. 26-33 Freyd: You were also looking for some operational criteria for false memory syndrome: what a… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“If someone were to propose that the planets go around the sun because all planet matter has a kind of tendency for… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
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