Fringe science

Aromatherapy is a practice based on the use of aromatic materials, including essential oils and other aroma compounds, with claims for improving psychological well-being. It is used as a complementary therapy or as a form of alternative medicine, and typically is used via inhalation and not by ingestion.

thumb |upright=1.3 |Panspermia proposes that organisms such as [[bacteria, complete with their DNA, could be transported by means such as comets through space to planets including Earth.]] Panspermia () is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the universe, distributed by cosmic dust, meteoroids, asteroids, comets, and planetoids, as well as by spacecraft carrying unintended contamination by microorganisms, known as directed panspermia. The theory argues that life did not originate on Earth, but instead evolved somewhere else and seeded life as we know it.

2008 American science fiction television series

Canadian parapsychologist, reincarnation researcher (1918–2007)

speculative historical theories

hypothesis about human evolution

form of alternative medicine

inquiry in an established field of study which departs significantly from mainstream theories in that field and is considered to be questionable by the mainstream

Austrian philosopher and inventor (1885–1958)

acoustic phenomenon

alleged mental disorder applied to Soviet political dissidents

fringe hypothesis

1907 pseudo-scientific study by Duncan MacDougall

variety of approaches that extend the theory of Darwinism to other fields

widespread social issue in India

regenerative medicine proposal

Secretion from Phyllomedusa bicolor frog

viXra is an electronic e-print archive known for unorthodox and fringe science. It was set up by independent physicist Philip Gibbs as an alternative to the dominant arXiv service operated by Cornell University. Its name comes from arXiv spelled backwards.

pseudoscientific alternative medicine

Italian physicist

chiropractic concept

alternative to traditional sauna using infrared radiation; popular in pseudo-medicine

pseudoscientific use of medicine