2012 phenomenon – a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or otherwise transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012.Physical sciences Astronomy and space sciences Each section here summarizes the alleged pseudoscientific aspects of that topic. Many adherents or practitioners of the topics listed here dispute their characterization as pseudoscience.
Other ideas presented here are entirely non-scientific, but have in one way or another impinged on scientific domains or practices. Though some of the listed topics continue to be investigated scientifically, others were only subject to scientific research in the past and today are considered refuted, but resurrected in a pseudoscientific fashion. These characterizations were made in the context of educating the public about questionable or potentially fraudulent or dangerous claims and practices-efforts to define the nature of science, or humorous parodies of poor scientific reasoning.Ĭriticism of pseudoscience, generally by the scientific community or skeptical organizations, involves critiques of the logical, methodological, or rhetorical bases of the topic in question. Detailed discussion of these topics may be found on their main pages. This is a list of topics that have, either currently or in the past, been characterized as pseudoscience by academics or researchers.
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