Sentences with phrase «promoting pseudoscience»
It's striking in this context to recall that, only 20 years ago, the phrase «Science Wars» was used in relation to generally leftish postmodernists in the humanities, who were seen as rejecting science and / or promoting pseudoscience (while some of this stuff was rather silly, there's no evidence that it ever did any actual harm to science).
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In 2012 the Government precluded all future Free Schools (i.e. those not already open) from teaching pseudoscience as science and required them to teach evolution, as well as requiring them to promote British values.
«The alien hype was silly pseudoscience promoted for media attention,» he says.
Standardized tests first entered the public schools in the 1920s, pushed by eugenicists whose pseudoscience promoted the «natural superiority» of wealthy, white, U.S. - born males.
Numerous presentations debunked with documentation what they called the pseudoscience and dictatorial intentions promoted by the UN, the European Union and the Obama administration.
To reduce the acceptance of pseudoscience or the rejection of real science, we need to do more than just promote scientific literacy.
I can very easily accept that I can be mistaken, fooled by my own wishful thinking, by con men selling pseudoscience or by the manufactured doubt industry promoting AstroReality, etc..
Or you might look at misbehavior which is all too common in ordinary pseudoscience disputes, but which in the physical and biological sciences is very uncommon on the funded academic side: e.g., triumphalism about unfalsifiable claims, and circling the wagons around various kinds of data hiding (e.g., remarkably lackadaisical formal investigation of CRU even after FOIA violations, and broad enthusiasm for promoting the formal results into an informal full «nothing to see here, move along» exoneration).
I sincerely believe that Neutrino, whoever is he, is not responsible of science distortion, but those who promote AGW pseudoscience by teaching unreal science to the public and have taken control of academies.