#pseudoscience

[ follow ]
#public-health
fromAeon
2 days ago

One woman's nose and two men's hubris: a nasogenital tale | Aeon Essays

Fliess was not only a physician but intertwined with Freud’s life, demonstrating the fascinating interplay of pseudoscience and early psychiatry in the late 19th century.
philosophy
fromMail Online
1 week ago

Joe Rogan's 'worst guest' breaks silence on what REALLY happened

I spent 25 years holding debates against people like Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval and John Anthony West, who argued that the pyramids and the Sphinx were built 15,000 years ago by people from Atlantis.
Podcast
Right-wing politics
fromIntelligencer
1 week ago

What Ghost Hunters Tell Us About Trump's America

A significant number of Americans are turning to astrology and supernatural practices, highlighting deep-rooted paranormal beliefs in the culture.
OMG science
fromArs Technica
2 weeks ago

Tuesday Telescope: Finally, some answers on those Martian streaks

Mars' dark and light streaks, once thought to indicate water flows, are now believed to be caused by dust slides.
fromBuzzFeed
3 weeks ago

A Handwriting Expert Spotted Something Telling With Donald Trump's Signature

Graphology is sometimes considered to be a pseudoscience, meaning something that claims to be based in fact but isn't actually. But the graphologists who spoke to HuffPost disagree with that characterization of the field and say the way a person's letters slant or curve and the direction of their pen strokes can reveal a lot about anyone, including Trump.
US politics
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

The MAHA Takeover Is Complete

In many ways, Casey Means is the perfect person for that job. Donald Trump's new nominee for surgeon general, announced yesterday, is a Stanford-trained doctor who is well-spoken and telegenic.
Public health
Alternative medicine
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Brainspotting Is Pseudoscience

Many dubious interventions exist for mental illness treatment.
Brainspotting is unproven and lacks scientific support.
Pseudoscience proliferates when scientific knowledge is incomplete.
OMG science
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Fake skull science is back - and it's still racist

Phrenology and physiognomy are experiencing a resurgence in interest, despite being debunked as pseudoscience.
[ Load more ]