Pseudoscience

Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that are claimed to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method. Pseudoscience is often characterized by contradictory, exaggerated or unfalsifiable claims; reliance on confirmation bias rather than rigorous attempts at refutation; lack of openness to evaluation by other experts; absence of systematic practices when developing hypotheses; and continued adherence long after the pseudoscientific hypotheses have been experimentally discredited. The term pseudoscience is considered pejorative, because it ...more

Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
Chariots of the Gods
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Bad Science
The 12th Planet (Earth Chronicles, #1)
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
Worlds in Collision
Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions
Gods from Outer Space
The Mothman Prophecies
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
Bad Astronomy
Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience: 2 volumes

Most Read This Week

On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience
Światy równoległe. Czego uczą nas płaskoziemcy, homeopaci i różdżkarze
The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
An Essay Upon Wind; With Curious Anecdotes of Eminent Peteurs... by Charles FoxThe Old Vegetable Neurotics, Hemlock, Opium, Belladonna and H... by John HarleyThe letting of humors blood in the head-vaine with a new mori... by Samuel RowlandsAlbum D'Un Pessimiste by Alphonse RabbeThe Case Of The. Fox by William Stanley
Fascinating/Zero Rating
100 books — 4 voters
The God Delusion by Richard DawkinsScience 4 for Christian Schools by Dawn L. WatkinsThe Crystal Bible by Judy HallDarwin's Black Box by Michael J. BeheSUMMARY by Brooke E. McKay
Worst pseudoscience books
46 books — 9 voters


Carl Sagan
Una de las lecciones más tristes de la historia es ésta: si se está sometido a un engaño demasiado tiempo, se tiende a rechazar cualquier prueba de que es un engaño.
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Abhijit Naskar
Medicine is the most potent form of miracle, but when medicine prioritizes money over care, people flock to quacks and influencers. When science fails in service, people look up to the stars for answers.
Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

More quotes...
Strangers in the Night Each month a theme will be set with a suggested book for each age group (adult, young adult, 8-1…more
12 members, last active 6 years ago
Skeptiki Skeptična skupina je prostor za vse, ki cenijo kritično mišljenje, znanstveno metodo in zdravo p…more
1 member, last active one year ago
The book club of the Perth Skeptics meetup group. We read books on a wide range of skeptical top…more
11 members, last active 13 years ago
Futurology is the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldv…more
5 members, last active 7 years ago