Essays on Pseudoscience

In the article, “Pseudoscience Is Taking Over Social Media and Putting Us All at Risk”, Santosh Vijaykumar describes the role social media plays in spreading false information, more specifically scientific information. Vijaykumar suggests scientists need to be more active in developing creative ways to communicate...

Till date, nobody has successfully described the meaning of science. For most of human history, science was just an insignificant activity. Prior to today, few individuals were called scientists and even fewer made a living from doing science. However, in our history, there was no...

Hypnosis is one of the most controversial pseudoscientific topics being discussed around the world today. Pseudoscience is a system of theories, presumptions, and methods imprecisely being regarded as scientific. Hypnosis is pseudoscientific topic that should be viewed more skeptically because there’s no way to effectively...

Science is the use of gathered up information while organizing it into relevant categories that explain different concepts on how the world works. Science is divided into many sections that represent different features in order to be able to properly use evidence to identify different...

Scientific evidences are a set of results obtained when a theory is tested objectively by a scientist or researcher in an experiment or in a controlled environment. On the other hand, the term ‘pseudo’ itself means fake. Pseudoscientific beliefs are theories that have been considered...

In this scenario, the author poorly demonstrates the differences between correlation and causation. Correlation is when two or more things have an association with each other whereas causation is when one variable causes direct changes to another variable (Lilienfeld et al., 2017). Just because autistic...