Sentences with phrase «of pseudoscientific»

Archer and Lavie refer to one of their own studies from December 2015 in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, titled «A Discussion of the Refutation of Memory - Based Dietary Assessment Methods (M - BMs): The Rhetorical Defense of Pseudoscientific and Inadmissible Evidence.»

All you see is a header, «Junk Science,» which would suggest that the piece is going to blow the lid off of some pseudoscientific myth.

You should report on Naomi Oreskes» work uncovering the roots of the pseudoscientific footdragging that bypasses the scientific community entirely and goes directly to the press.

Li Wenguang is known for his highly subjective and idiosyncratic works, many of which have been based on notions of pseudoscientific equations, personal diaries, and dream interpretation.

A lot of pseudoscientific arguments can be made for both fed and fasted exercise, and since a few blog posts have already been dedicated to the former, this one will focus on the latter.

All you see is a header, «Junk Science,» which would suggest that the piece is going to blow the lid off of some pseudoscientific myth.

Many of their pseudoscientific models attempt to predict our creditworthiness, giving each of us so - called e-scores, which are based on numerous variables such as our occupation, what our houses are valued at and our spending habits.

But Germany had its own tradition of pseudoscientific racism reaching back well into the 19th century.

Indeed, that's the judgment of Richard Wiseman, a British psychology researcher and avid debunker of pseudoscientific claims.

And, of course, there are loyal readers who are distressed by the spread of pseudoscientific nonsense and wish to discuss the scientific facts.

Barry Beyerstein, a professor of psychology at Simon Fraser University, wrote about the technique of applying a veneer of scientific respectability as a way to improve the status of pseudoscientific beliefs.

A French denier, Robert Faurisson, inaugurated these technical speculations, though it was Fred Leuchter, an American entrepreneur dealing in execution equipment for states with the death penalty, who provided Faurisson's theories with elaborate displays of pseudoscientific «proof» in The Leuchter Report: The End of a Myth: An Engineering Report on the Alleged Execution Gas Chambers at Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Majdenek (1988).

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First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

Women who have recently given birth can often be vulnerable and sleep deprived and may find it more difficult to discern the scientific authenticity of an article or method from the pseudoscientific claims the author (s) are making.

BHA Faith Schools Campaigner Richy Thompson commented, «We will continue to campaign for this information to be published, as while we are not opposed to Free Schools, we do have concerns around the diversity of religious and pseudoscientific Free Schools which are being backed to open by the Government, and believe there therefore needs to be more transparency in the approval process.»

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has expressed concern that religious and pseudoscientific groups will take advantage of this change in ways that lead to a biasing of the curriculum.

41 of the applications are religious or pseudoscientific, including:

BHA Faith Schools Campaigner Richy Thompson commented, «It is disappointing to see a further diversification of the «faith» schools sector: with not only more evangelical schools and more pseudoscientific schools, but also the first special needs and alternative provision schools.

They observed a number of conspiracy theories, or pseudoscientific claims, questioning why governments wanted a vaccine.

These works consist largely of inspirational testimonials glued together by pseudoscientific theorizing and advice that ranges from the banal to the ludicrous.

But not since Freud's pseudoscientific theories early last century has psychiatry claimed any broad theoretical basis for making sense of our normal and abnormal feelings, thinking and social behaviours — the complexities at the heart of being human.

He has weighed in on educational policy, the fallibility of jury trials, «pseudoscientific drivel» such as quantum healing, the «yahooish complacency» of postmodernism, terrorism, and governmental stem cell and cloning policy.

And no, none of this has nothing to do with Nibiru, a pseudoscientific belief in a large undiscovered planet which would collide with Earth, based on teachings by Zechariah Sitchin.

You seem to have missed the links that scientifically support the entirety of my claims for RNA - mediated events that link amino acid substitutions to morphological and behavioral phenotypes without the pseudoscientific nonsense of evolutionary theory.

And you've also probably heard that most of that is pseudoscientific nonsense, and that some other theory or model altogether is the real «secret» to gaining size.

It might take a couple hours to get through, but the rigorous deconstruction of some of the pseudoscientific silliness in the movie, the positive and generous attitude she presents towards the intentions of the producers and stars of the film, and the dozen or two laugh - out - loud points all make the time spent well worth it.

While some reject these streams of healing as being pseudoscientific, there is a growing body of research to back them up.

I'm glad you decided to add healthy fats to your diet, and hope that you will further improve your diet by considering to keep it full of whole sources of food instead of relying on an extreme, liquid - based diet made up of fiberless fruits and veggies based on shoddy, pseudoscientific claims.

It's easy to waste years of your life trying to lose weight with pseudoscientific fad diets, avoiding certain foods, and only letting yourself eat at certain times.

Many at face value seem to have plenty of research support, but in reality are standing on pseudoscientific legs.

That's really no secret, but the «pseudoscientific» way of tracking these changes is what makes Dr. Garrett a raging lunatic.

The reason we're focusing on mineral water is that it's a type of water that contains measurable nutrients, and is thus somewhat less susceptible to pseudoscientific claims (yes, I'm looking at you «alkaline water»).

Her legal opponent David Irving (Timothy Spall), the plaintiff in the case, has made a career of picking apart the specifics of the Holocaust, using any conflicting accounts or pseudoscientific analysis as a way to undermine agreed - upon history.

Given a colourful brain scan image and exciting - sounding phrases that are pleasingly simple (such as «left - brain» or «kinaesthetic learner»), far too many of us jump up and down with pseudoscientific joy.

Marchant has developed a powerful and critically needed conceptual bridge for those who are frustrated with pseudoscientific explanations of alternative therapies but intrigued by the mind's potential power to both cause and treat chronic, stress - related conditions.»

The Daily Fail Mail has published the results of a tenuous new study that purports to link (once again) violent games with violent behavior... but this time around, it's sports titles that have come under the pseudoscientific spotlight.

Damien Hirst's Alone Yet Together, a pseudoscientific installation of fish suspended in formaldehyde in small, identical glass boxes, graces the cover of this volume.

Could anything be more out of date, backward - looking, or antiquated in spirit than the Carlin report's repackaging of yesterday's denialist illusions and pseudoscientific nonsense about climate — fantasies that have been shot down time and again, that don't have a melting Greenland glacier's chance in a warming climate when exposed to the light of reason, yet which have been presented to the world as if they were a brilliant refutation of the CO2 - global warming link by the sharpest analytical minds in the field of climatological research?

My electricity costs me more than it ought to, because of what Hal Lewis has described as a «pseudoscientific fraud».

This recent post via Real Climate Science on NASA tampering of Sea - level rise highlights the blatant malfeasance that these government funded institutions will undertake in order to push the man - made global warming climate change agenda, and keep the «Greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud in history» rolling and the billions upon billions of taxpayer funds flowing...

In full, pseudoscientific surround stereo: ------------------------------------------ «I take a bit of issue with this comment, ATTP: >> science doesn't work via consensus I guess that depends on exactly what facet of science you're talking about (or what you mean by «work»).»

As for my interest in the other side, that would be the side of light of course, while the dark side is where we find you groping about, led by the specious prognostications of AGW priests professing doom and gloom from their pseudoscientific crystal balls (aka climate models) if we don't lead a more sustainable life.

But... Much stuff that is lambasted and declared OT and «pseudoscientific» here at WUWT, actually holds material that is perfectly scientifically valid, and is important for the future of science.

His book Heaven and Earth, which purports to destroy the science of climate change, contains page after page of schoolboy errors and pseudoscientific gobbledegook.

Are you suggesting there should be some sort of criminal investigation into Dr. Spencer's pseudoscientific practices?

What you describe is exactly the outcome that Exxon - Mobil and other fossil fuel companies desire, and have achieved by their funding of right - wing propaganda mills, disguised as «think tanks», that spew a steady stream of fake, phony, pseudoscientific bunk and employ cranks and liars to create the completely false impression that there is a genuine «debate» about the reality of anthropogenic global warming.

At best, the doubling of CO2 = 1.2 degrees warmer statement is a working assumption, at worst pseudoscientific fluff.

[T] he data generated by memory - based dietary assessment methods (M - BMs) of nutrition epidemiology are pseudoscientific and inadmissible as scientific evidence....

Of the many pseudoscientific institutions responsible for pushing the pseudoscientific fraud of Man Made Global Warming in recent years, few have been quite so assiduous in promulgating the great lie as our own Royal SocietOf the many pseudoscientific institutions responsible for pushing the pseudoscientific fraud of Man Made Global Warming in recent years, few have been quite so assiduous in promulgating the great lie as our own Royal Societof Man Made Global Warming in recent years, few have been quite so assiduous in promulgating the great lie as our own Royal Society.

What honor should be bestowed on first rank scientists and other esteemed professionals in possession of well - established science who pose as if they «see no truth, hear no truth and speak no truth» regarding known causes of the clear and present danger while mainstreamed, false (preternatural, pseudoscientific) knowledge is deliberately allowed to stand unchallenged as if it represented the best available science?