Even if the treatments were free, there is no justification for offering treatments based on pseudoscience.
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Brian Cummings, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Irvine, says calling it pseudoscience would be generous.
Sometimes, what peddlers of pseudoscience say may have a kernel of real truth that makes it seem plausible.
Pseudoscience continued to thrive in 2011, making my choice for the worst quackery of the year a difficult one.
Unlike some of the rank pseudoscience I often blog about, this claim actually has some real science behind it.
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So you can read and decide each of them pseudoscience or not .
In recent weeks, the Baltimore Sun, once an excellent newspaper, has dived headfirst into the pool of anti-vaccination pseudoscience.
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Sir Paul believes strongly that scientists have a duty to speak out about science in public life and challenge pseudoscience.
Coverage was sporadic, with science news often appearing in an incongruous section, such as that on life and entertainment, which could also include articles on pseudoscience like astrology.
"Amgen essentially purchased the pseudoscience that went into raising these hematocrit guidelines in the medical literature, " bristles Merrill Goozner, a director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Plausibility is the keystone to understanding quackery and pseudoscience.
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