Sentence examples for pseudoscience from inspiring English sources

They reflect a rise in anti-vaccine sentiment fuelled by misinformation and pseudoscience.

Voodoo Science: The Road From Foolishness to FraudBy Robert Park.Oxford University Press; 240 pages; $25 and £18.95HOWEVER far or fast science advances, pseudoscience is never far behind.

The problem, as Mr Park puts it in a somewhat gloomy conclusion, is that "pseudoscience will always sell more books than the real science that debunks it".

He speed-read books looking for material that he counted as useful meaning anything that fitted into his mosaic of misplaced historical analogy and pseudoscience.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley introduced pseudoscience into the genre in her famous novel Frankenstein (1818), about the creation of a monster that ultimately destroys its creator.

It is characteristic of the Neo-Pythagoreans that they were chiefly interested in the Pythagorean way of life and in the pseudoscience of number mysticism.

Nazi efforts to purify the German race gained an air of scientific respectability from the pseudoscience of eugenics, the racial hygiene movement that flourished widely in the early decades of the 20th century.

A tireless advocate of scientific rationality, he argued strongly against tendencies toward pseudoscience and occultism, most comprehensively in his last major book, The Demon-Haunted World (1996), significantly subtitled Science As a Candle in the Dark.

It adds: "Some claim that the church is purely a thought experiment, satire, illustrating that Intelligent Design is not science, but rather a pseudoscience manufactured by Christians to push Creationism (the doctrine that God created the universe) into public schools.

The bulk of scientific opinion however considers homeopathy to be a pseudoscience with no grounding in fact.

According to Popper, it is the mark of a pseudoscience that its hypotheses are not open to falsification by any conceivable test.