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Pseudoscience refers to ideas or practices that claim to be scientific but lack the rigorous evidence and methods of genuine science, such as phrenology's discredited claim that skull bumps could predict personality traits. It matters because pseudoscientific claims can mislead people into accepting false beliefs, as happened when phrenology was widely accepted before being proven wrong.
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447 papers- Pseudoscience and fraudulent products for COVID-19 management.ReviewEnvironmental science and pollution research international · 2022Chavda VP, Sonak SS, Munshi NK et al.DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-21967-4
- Editorial: The Psychology of Pseudoscience.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Blancke S, Edis T, Braeckman J et al.DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.935645
- Pseudoscience, Subterfuge, and Civil Resistance.The Milbank quarterly · 2025Cohen ABDOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.70074
- [Pseudoscience].Enfermeria clinica · 2009Uriel Latorre PDOI: 10.1016/j.enfcli.2009.03.006
- Pseudoscience.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 1974Abelson PHDOI: 10.1126/science.184.4143.1233
- Living with COVID-19-triggered pseudoscience and conspiracies.ReviewInternational journal of public health · 2020Desta TT, Mulugeta TDOI: 10.1007/s00038-020-01412-4
- Science and pseudoscience during the COVID-19 pandemic.Turk pediatri arsivi · 2020Kasapçopur ÖDOI: 10.14744/TurkPediatriArs.2020.35902
- The reanimation of pseudoscience in machine learning and its ethical repercussions.ReviewPatterns (New York, N.Y.) · 2024Andrews M, Smart A, Birhane ADOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2024.101027
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Nell'epistemologia, la pseudoscienza è ogni teoria, metodologia o pratica che afferma, pretende o vuole apparire scientifica ma che tuttavia non soddisfa i criteri tipici di scientificità, ovvero non adotta il metodo scientifico, che è il metodo alla base della scienza moderna, per dimostrare le proprie affermazioni e progredire. Tra i primi ad usare il termine ci fu François Magendie, pioniere della fisiologia. Il termine deriva dal prefisso greco ψευδής pseudés (falso, mendace) e dal latino scientia (conoscenza).
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