CRITICAL THINKING: WHY IS IT SO POPULAR PSEUDOSCIENCE AND PARANORMALEN
How to distinguish the real science from the fake and stay sane
In fact water has a memory is carried in our body, memorizing its curves and challenges, and pours out a healing elixir due to the holographic theory of urine.
In fact, the stars in the Universe exist only in order to line up a certain way in the moment of your birth. And not only stars, but star clusters, galaxies and black holes, all of them of course is also responsible for Bullocks, which promises financial success.
Really don’t need to drink pain medication when a headache, it is possible to lick and ppm of the active substance will instantly heal you. Better yet, give the money to the homeopath, it means will make you better, smarter and healthier than others who just let to eat antibiotics with really acting drugs.
Actually you are always running around the crowd of dead relatives who just let to talk, to tell, how best to save your life, and how much money you need to give little master of the occult Sciences, so pathetic talking in different voices.
Welcome to the world of pseudoscience and paranormal, planet rabbit’s feet and astrology, continuum urine therapy and astral projection. This is the second of a series of conditional “Critical thinking” (started conspiracy theories and conspiracy), which will tell you how to distinguish the science of a healthy person from the science of the smoker, what is the difference “dark matter” from “quantum bio energy” and learn how to catch Bigfoot in a dark room, if it does not exist on this planet.
As you can see from the title, “pseudo science” is like psevdopodiû. That is something that is desperately trying to impersonate the science of putting on terms (often meaningless and made up of two clever, but completely wrong for each other words like “axion astromythology”), and false logic that takes into account only those facts that the benefits of this pseudo-science. All these “disciplines” there is one feature: they are not supported by any research, nor experiments, nor even common sense. Only blind faith in the allegations bordering on fanaticism.
In addition, says Dr. Jonathan Smith, Professor of psychology at Roosevelt University and founding Director of the Institute of stress, you should think about the consequences of such allegations.
Smith is a skeptic with experience, a professional in the field of critical thinking and objective assessment of the phenomena. And he is also the author of numerous papers and courses on development skills, which help to separate the false from the truth. As it is now fashionable to call it, a fighter with fakes. Here are just a fakie Smith hiding the news, they’re everywhere, they have become part of our lives and affect the minds of many people.
TEN MAJOR DIFFERENCES
Of course, science (the real one) does not explain everything that happens in this Universe. There are many mysterious and bizarre things that humanity has yet to learn. Like “dark matter” or “dark energy”, which in reality is as dark as “white spots” on the map were white; the location of consciousness in the brain; cancer therapy; transcription of the genome and so on. However, scientists try to fill gaps and spaces of scientific methods. They put forward the hypothesis (probable guesses about the “nature of things”), turning them into theory (measurable or observable reliable truth, confirmed experimentally) and are based on axioms (self-evident truth, proven or self-evident).
Hence, in principle, it is easy to overlook signs of pseudoscience.
1. Inaccuracy, exaggeration and ambiguous terminology. The fewer specifics, the harder it is for something to complain about. Science deals with specificity and precision, you can easily explain/measure visible light, but will never cope with the “qi energy”, which captures only the “master of many incarnations, the magician and the magician”. As working astrologers and medical quacks. They say that you people are able to exploit for the sake of another, dear Scorpio, but sometimes quite selfish. So try extract, it perfectly displays the body (whose?) toxins (what? In what quantity?).
2. Expert assessment, but there is a conspiracy theory. The coolness of the real science that to get published in a serious newspaper is simply wrong: you should review angry enough scientific editors, check the idea for accuracy. And yet these editors pharmaceutical lobby brought the money that they hid information on bee butts, treating AIDS! And only the healer Martha with the help of Feng Shui and fish scales you take off the hex, preventing to quit drinking after 15 years of living under a bridge.
3. Rechecking for wimps! Well, you understand. Homeopathy works just because it works, evidence for wimps, but who denies the validity of this method is that a reptilian Anunnaki is a lobbyist. And if I didn’t, so you didn’t anoint my left armpit fat bear, fed chamomile honey collected by bees in new moon.
4. Hostility to the development and change of ideas. I mean chemistry has proved that homeopathy doesn’t work? Yes the chemistry fifty years, and homeopaths treat people for thousands of years! I know because that’s what my astrologer.
5. Scientific methods are not applicable. Because the patient needs to trust your homeopath, otherwise it will not work! And because bent nails in front of the camera impossible, because the nails bend my heart, and shooting this soul stealing.
6. Incorrect use of scientific terms. This is my favorite part. Did you notice how much different pseudoscientists love the combination of compound words that do not contain the slightest sense? Transerfing reality! Quantum psychology! A generic nuclear reactor! Urinary egregor! Testicular laser transition! Silent already about how the quantum world in an amazing way goes into macroreentrant and “quantum teleportation” suddenly become a terrible way to move, after which people turn into muhomorov, collapserow own wave function.
7. You can use any of the evidence. Rigorous and controlled experiments? What nonsense! The son of a neighbor caught the hiccups after vaccination, and you saw it with your own eyes! And no double blind studies are not needed here. Einstein himself in public with jokes wrote that “science is for those who believe, not for those who want something there to check.”
8Упор to “negative evidence.” In real science the unfortunate scientists first declare something unholy, and then look for evidence, while the others poke them with your fingers and twist at the temple. In some palmistry proof is the fact that no one undertook to refute this nonsense, but if you take, the palmists will be poking him with your fingers and twist at the temple. Catch the difference?
9. Nefal’sificiruemost’. A century ago the philosopher and sociologist Karl Popper once again complicated the life of a scientist, adding real science to the idea of this feature, as falsifiability (and ignominiously removing from the list of Sciences history, psychology and sociology). That is, there must be some experiment that can disprove it. For example, the General theory of relativity can be falsified in many ways, including the observation of stars during an Eclipse; the search for gravitational waves from merging black holes; measurements of the lack of time difference between the surface and the orbit of the Earth. Try to do the same with astrology.
10. Politics and religion somewhere. Creationists are fighting with the “materialism” part of the political forces (especially those who have not managed to put as his Minister of health) immunization fight with the Soviet Union, struggling with the imperialist fallacy — genetics — invent “Lysenkoism”. The Nazis believe in their exclusivity. And so on.
CLASSIFICATION OF PHENOMENA
Part of the phenomena are considered to be borderline, so they should be considered separately. For example, physics does not interfere with developed aliens into hibernation and reach the Earth at relativistic speeds (or send robots). But the archons from another dimension ruling the world already paranormalen. To the edge and arbitrarily numbered among the paranormal phenomena also include the Sasquatch (which in General can be a mixture of bears and hallucinations), the Loch ness monster, some types of acupuncture (where not trying to direct the energy of qi), sleepwalking, part yoga and meditation. In short, anything that may be a normal explanation. The rest — in the bubbles in front of you.
It is a supernatural ability of people and animals, violating all possible laws of physics. Someone can read minds, someone who bends spoons, but none of the psychics predicted until the results of the election did not win the lottery (because “the conditions do not allow”, yeah). So feel free to put into the category of telepathy, telekinesis, clairvoyance, astral adventures, dowsing and other psychic.
If the right to extract the insides of an animal, you can do without coffee grounds and a special combination of tea leaves and predict the future. Do the same “researchers of Nostradamus”, “rasshifrovki the Bible code” and other astrologers who are looking for random things system. So enter here all types of divination — palmistry and Tarot to numerology and astrology.
Unlike ordinary energy, it is not enough that everywhere, so also reasonable. I mean, they don’t need a guide-a psychic, they do a good job, instructing all of you on the right path. This includes living objects possessed by good spirits, karma, fate, a higher justice, spirits, werewolves and witches.
Unlike psychic powers, limited and manifested in “the chosen”, a simple energy pervade the entire universe and affect people’s health without affecting their choice and life path in General. Although psychics and can manipulate them. This includes: Chi energy, magnetic therapy, homeopathy, traditional acupuncture and tai Chi, healing touch.
In the context of pseudoscience and the paranormal hard to stay away from complex supernatural system, which is abstract and nothing to do with the real world, but have a huge impact. This is an attempt to go beyond the natural world to fill the scary white patches. That is, the supernatural religion which involves literally (not metaphorically, but in literal sense) understandings of heaven, hell, devil, angels, saints, the virgin birth, the resurrection, and other fantastic miracles. Or a supercomputer with the universe. Or the aliens that control the world. Or a giant simulation, created by the descendants of the 38-th version of the future.
Everything is simple: it is reasonable forces that exist in this afterlife. This reincarnated souls (who “remember past rebirths”), ghosts, reincarnation in General, and a whole bunch of psychics that can learn from your great-grandmother as she relates to the new color of your hair.
It is, in General, match, traditions and “similarities”. For example, you received a raise, being in the green socks. Maybe the whole thing is in them? To simple superstitions include black cats, rabbit’s feet, “13”, “happy” clothes and so on.
WHY IS THIS DANGEROUS AND WHAT LIES BEHIND THE PARANORMAL
I will emphasize again. The one and only black cat, a real Heartbreaker, able to literally reshape the universe.
However, without the cats paranormalen brought to humanity a lot of problems. For example, the non-existent witchcraft led to the fact that in three years the Inquisition in Europe killed more than 200 thousand women, accusing them of witchcraft. And the fictional inferiority of blood and other beliefs of the Nazis were the cause of violent destruction of six million Jews.
Now it is engaged in “alternative medicine” which “gently” destroys people trying to cure even simple diseases through urine therapy, supplements, homeopathy, chiropractic, fasting, healing shrines, and so on.
And here’s another paradox. The main religious texts warn that magic is deception and evil. However, among the followers of religions many of the defenders of the paranormal. Mature spirituality is not afraid of a collision with reality, and critical approach. That is why an adult and a reasonable person who believes in God, never go to seize the land of a neighbor, to deal with the vaccine and kill people just because some manipulator, said that “the angels had said”. This is politics.
And finally, it can be dangerous to believe in the paranormal selectively. Evidence of the existence of ghosts exactly as much as the prophetic abilities of the late octopus Paul, electrosense and astrologers.
So every time you offer “just to check”, make sure this is not one of the true reasons for the occurrence of paranormal phenomena. For example, a natural accident. Or statistical regularity. Or error of perception. Or memory error. Or the placebo effect. Or sensory abnormality. Or a hallucination. Or simply deceit and manipulation to take your last money, giving in return quack mumbo-Jumbo.
Thanks to bobrtimes
In fact water has a memory is carried in our body, memorizing its curves and challenges, and pours out a healing elixir due to the holographic theory of urine.
In fact, the stars in the Universe exist only in order to line up a certain way in the moment of your birth. And not only stars, but star clusters, galaxies and black holes, all of them of course is also responsible for Bullocks, which promises financial success.
Really don’t need to drink pain medication when a headache, it is possible to lick and ppm of the active substance will instantly heal you. Better yet, give the money to the homeopath, it means will make you better, smarter and healthier than others who just let to eat antibiotics with really acting drugs.
Actually you are always running around the crowd of dead relatives who just let to talk, to tell, how best to save your life, and how much money you need to give little master of the occult Sciences, so pathetic talking in different voices.
Welcome to the world of pseudoscience and paranormal, planet rabbit’s feet and astrology, continuum urine therapy and astral projection. This is the second of a series of conditional “Critical thinking” (started conspiracy theories and conspiracy), which will tell you how to distinguish the science of a healthy person from the science of the smoker, what is the difference “dark matter” from “quantum bio energy” and learn how to catch Bigfoot in a dark room, if it does not exist on this planet.
As you can see from the title, “pseudo science” is like psevdopodiû. That is something that is desperately trying to impersonate the science of putting on terms (often meaningless and made up of two clever, but completely wrong for each other words like “axion astromythology”), and false logic that takes into account only those facts that the benefits of this pseudo-science. All these “disciplines” there is one feature: they are not supported by any research, nor experiments, nor even common sense. Only blind faith in the allegations bordering on fanaticism.
In addition, says Dr. Jonathan Smith, Professor of psychology at Roosevelt University and founding Director of the Institute of stress, you should think about the consequences of such allegations.
“I sincerely believe that the statements astrologers, psychics, psychics, spoon-benders, specialists in complementary and alternative medicine, acupuncturists, healers and creationists should be taken seriously — I believe that extraordinary claims can cause extraordinary consequences… Some kind of paranormal event magically violate the laws of physics — everything we know about matter and energy. One reliably demonstrated a paranormal phenomenon could force mankind to rewrite almost all of the textbooks.
Moreover, it may require from humanity for emergency research, in comparison with which the historical program of the development of the atomic bomb or landing a man on the moon seem small and insignificant. Why? Imagine what would happen if a rabbit’s foot actually worked and the terrorists would know about it first? Seriously! What if people actually could predict the future to influence the past to cure diseases with a touch, thought and prayer; to secretly observe the secret events, to manipulate objects and devices over large distances by sheer force of thought? What if all paranormal phenomena actually exist?… Think about it”.
TEN MAJOR DIFFERENCES
Of course, science (the real one) does not explain everything that happens in this Universe. There are many mysterious and bizarre things that humanity has yet to learn. Like “dark matter” or “dark energy”, which in reality is as dark as “white spots” on the map were white; the location of consciousness in the brain; cancer therapy; transcription of the genome and so on. However, scientists try to fill gaps and spaces of scientific methods. They put forward the hypothesis (probable guesses about the “nature of things”), turning them into theory (measurable or observable reliable truth, confirmed experimentally) and are based on axioms (self-evident truth, proven or self-evident).
Hence, in principle, it is easy to overlook signs of pseudoscience.
1. Inaccuracy, exaggeration and ambiguous terminology. The fewer specifics, the harder it is for something to complain about. Science deals with specificity and precision, you can easily explain/measure visible light, but will never cope with the “qi energy”, which captures only the “master of many incarnations, the magician and the magician”. As working astrologers and medical quacks. They say that you people are able to exploit for the sake of another, dear Scorpio, but sometimes quite selfish. So try extract, it perfectly displays the body (whose?) toxins (what? In what quantity?).
2. Expert assessment, but there is a conspiracy theory. The coolness of the real science that to get published in a serious newspaper is simply wrong: you should review angry enough scientific editors, check the idea for accuracy. And yet these editors pharmaceutical lobby brought the money that they hid information on bee butts, treating AIDS! And only the healer Martha with the help of Feng Shui and fish scales you take off the hex, preventing to quit drinking after 15 years of living under a bridge.
3. Rechecking for wimps! Well, you understand. Homeopathy works just because it works, evidence for wimps, but who denies the validity of this method is that a reptilian Anunnaki is a lobbyist. And if I didn’t, so you didn’t anoint my left armpit fat bear, fed chamomile honey collected by bees in new moon.
4. Hostility to the development and change of ideas. I mean chemistry has proved that homeopathy doesn’t work? Yes the chemistry fifty years, and homeopaths treat people for thousands of years! I know because that’s what my astrologer.
5. Scientific methods are not applicable. Because the patient needs to trust your homeopath, otherwise it will not work! And because bent nails in front of the camera impossible, because the nails bend my heart, and shooting this soul stealing.
6. Incorrect use of scientific terms. This is my favorite part. Did you notice how much different pseudoscientists love the combination of compound words that do not contain the slightest sense? Transerfing reality! Quantum psychology! A generic nuclear reactor! Urinary egregor! Testicular laser transition! Silent already about how the quantum world in an amazing way goes into macroreentrant and “quantum teleportation” suddenly become a terrible way to move, after which people turn into muhomorov, collapserow own wave function.
7. You can use any of the evidence. Rigorous and controlled experiments? What nonsense! The son of a neighbor caught the hiccups after vaccination, and you saw it with your own eyes! And no double blind studies are not needed here. Einstein himself in public with jokes wrote that “science is for those who believe, not for those who want something there to check.”
8Упор to “negative evidence.” In real science the unfortunate scientists first declare something unholy, and then look for evidence, while the others poke them with your fingers and twist at the temple. In some palmistry proof is the fact that no one undertook to refute this nonsense, but if you take, the palmists will be poking him with your fingers and twist at the temple. Catch the difference?
9. Nefal’sificiruemost’. A century ago the philosopher and sociologist Karl Popper once again complicated the life of a scientist, adding real science to the idea of this feature, as falsifiability (and ignominiously removing from the list of Sciences history, psychology and sociology). That is, there must be some experiment that can disprove it. For example, the General theory of relativity can be falsified in many ways, including the observation of stars during an Eclipse; the search for gravitational waves from merging black holes; measurements of the lack of time difference between the surface and the orbit of the Earth. Try to do the same with astrology.
10. Politics and religion somewhere. Creationists are fighting with the “materialism” part of the political forces (especially those who have not managed to put as his Minister of health) immunization fight with the Soviet Union, struggling with the imperialist fallacy — genetics — invent “Lysenkoism”. The Nazis believe in their exclusivity. And so on.
CLASSIFICATION OF PHENOMENA
Part of the phenomena are considered to be borderline, so they should be considered separately. For example, physics does not interfere with developed aliens into hibernation and reach the Earth at relativistic speeds (or send robots). But the archons from another dimension ruling the world already paranormalen. To the edge and arbitrarily numbered among the paranormal phenomena also include the Sasquatch (which in General can be a mixture of bears and hallucinations), the Loch ness monster, some types of acupuncture (where not trying to direct the energy of qi), sleepwalking, part yoga and meditation. In short, anything that may be a normal explanation. The rest — in the bubbles in front of you.
- Paranormal forces
It is a supernatural ability of people and animals, violating all possible laws of physics. Someone can read minds, someone who bends spoons, but none of the psychics predicted until the results of the election did not win the lottery (because “the conditions do not allow”, yeah). So feel free to put into the category of telepathy, telekinesis, clairvoyance, astral adventures, dowsing and other psychic.
- Paranormal patterns
If the right to extract the insides of an animal, you can do without coffee grounds and a special combination of tea leaves and predict the future. Do the same “researchers of Nostradamus”, “rasshifrovki the Bible code” and other astrologers who are looking for random things system. So enter here all types of divination — palmistry and Tarot to numerology and astrology.
- Reasonable force and essence
Unlike ordinary energy, it is not enough that everywhere, so also reasonable. I mean, they don’t need a guide-a psychic, they do a good job, instructing all of you on the right path. This includes living objects possessed by good spirits, karma, fate, a higher justice, spirits, werewolves and witches.
- Simple energy
Unlike psychic powers, limited and manifested in “the chosen”, a simple energy pervade the entire universe and affect people’s health without affecting their choice and life path in General. Although psychics and can manipulate them. This includes: Chi energy, magnetic therapy, homeopathy, traditional acupuncture and tai Chi, healing touch.
- Supernatural entities
In the context of pseudoscience and the paranormal hard to stay away from complex supernatural system, which is abstract and nothing to do with the real world, but have a huge impact. This is an attempt to go beyond the natural world to fill the scary white patches. That is, the supernatural religion which involves literally (not metaphorically, but in literal sense) understandings of heaven, hell, devil, angels, saints, the virgin birth, the resurrection, and other fantastic miracles. Or a supercomputer with the universe. Or the aliens that control the world. Or a giant simulation, created by the descendants of the 38-th version of the future.
- Afterlife entity
Everything is simple: it is reasonable forces that exist in this afterlife. This reincarnated souls (who “remember past rebirths”), ghosts, reincarnation in General, and a whole bunch of psychics that can learn from your great-grandmother as she relates to the new color of your hair.
- Simple superstition
It is, in General, match, traditions and “similarities”. For example, you received a raise, being in the green socks. Maybe the whole thing is in them? To simple superstitions include black cats, rabbit’s feet, “13”, “happy” clothes and so on.
WHY IS THIS DANGEROUS AND WHAT LIES BEHIND THE PARANORMAL
I will emphasize again. The one and only black cat, a real Heartbreaker, able to literally reshape the universe.
However, without the cats paranormalen brought to humanity a lot of problems. For example, the non-existent witchcraft led to the fact that in three years the Inquisition in Europe killed more than 200 thousand women, accusing them of witchcraft. And the fictional inferiority of blood and other beliefs of the Nazis were the cause of violent destruction of six million Jews.
Now it is engaged in “alternative medicine” which “gently” destroys people trying to cure even simple diseases through urine therapy, supplements, homeopathy, chiropractic, fasting, healing shrines, and so on.
And here’s another paradox. The main religious texts warn that magic is deception and evil. However, among the followers of religions many of the defenders of the paranormal. Mature spirituality is not afraid of a collision with reality, and critical approach. That is why an adult and a reasonable person who believes in God, never go to seize the land of a neighbor, to deal with the vaccine and kill people just because some manipulator, said that “the angels had said”. This is politics.
And finally, it can be dangerous to believe in the paranormal selectively. Evidence of the existence of ghosts exactly as much as the prophetic abilities of the late octopus Paul, electrosense and astrologers.
So every time you offer “just to check”, make sure this is not one of the true reasons for the occurrence of paranormal phenomena. For example, a natural accident. Or statistical regularity. Or error of perception. Or memory error. Or the placebo effect. Or sensory abnormality. Or a hallucination. Or simply deceit and manipulation to take your last money, giving in return quack mumbo-Jumbo.
Thanks to bobrtimes
CRITICAL THINKING: WHY IS IT SO POPULAR PSEUDOSCIENCE AND PARANORMALEN
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