List of pseudoscience topics
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This is a list of topics that are generally considered pseudoscience by the scientific community. Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be scientific or factual but are inherently incompatible with the scientific method. Detailed discussion of these topics may be found on their main pages.
Criticism of pseudoscience, generally by the scientific community or skeptical organizations, involves critiques of the logical, methodological, or rhetorical bases of the topic in question. Some of the listed topics were subject to scientific research in the past and today are considered refuted, but resurrected in a pseudoscientific fashion. Other ideas presented here are entirely non-scientific, but have in one way or another impinged on scientific domains or practices.
Many adherents or practitioners of the topics listed here dispute their characterization as pseudoscience.
Physical sciences
Astronomy and space sciences
2012 phenomenon – is a set of end times predictions claiming catastrophic events would occur on 21 December 2012, a belief rejected by Mayanist scholars as a modern pseudoscientific misinterpretation of the Long Count calendar.
Ancient astronauts – is the belief that extraterrestrials visited Earth in antiquity and influenced human cultures.
Astrology – is the belief that information about human affairs may be discerned by studying the apparent positions of celestial objects.
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