Pseudoscience

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Precognition (from the Latin 'before', and 'acquiring knowledge') is the purported psychic phenomenon of seeing, or otherwise becoming directly aware of, events in the future.

Hypnotherapy, also known as hypnotic medicine, is the use of hypnosis in psychotherapy. Hypnosis is a state of deep focus and openness to suggestion that usually begins with relaxation and guided instructions. Some people respond more strongly than others, and researchers explain that hypnosis is not a magical trance but a form of concentrated attention and expectation (Heap & Naish, 2012). Hypnotherapy is generally not considered to be based on scientific evidence, and is rarely recommended in clinical practice guidelines. However, several psychological reviews and meta-analyses suggest that

reptilian humanoids occurring in conspiracy theories and fantasy works

pseudoscience - the attempt to predict various aspects of a person's life through simple mathematical cycles; not to be confused with scientific term "biological rhythm"

controversial interpretation of out-of-body experiences

urban legend

thumb|upright=1.35 |Trofim Lysenko speaking at the Kremlin in 1935; behind him are (left to right) [[Stanislav Kosior, Anastas Mikoyan, Andrei Andreev and Joseph Stalin]] Lysenkoism was a pseudoscientific political campaign led by the Soviet biologist Trofim Lysenko against genetics and science-based agriculture in the mid-20th century, rejecting natural selection in favour of a form of Lamarckism, as well as expanding upon the techniques of vernalization and grafting.

pescetarian diet fixed on ideas about types of food drawn from Zen Buddhism

Architecture and design-related texts of India

evidence collected in a casual or informal manner and relying heavily or entirely on personal testimony

photographic technique used to capture electrical coronal discharges

organization devoted to the practice and the promotion of the Scientology belief system

various applications of human urine for medicinal or cosmetic purposes

sensitivity to electromagnetic fields

parapsychology recordings with anomolous haunting sounds investigated as spirit voices

pseudoscientific alternative medicine practice

traditional medicine from the Mughal empire

prayer and gestures that are perceived to bring divine intervention in physical healing

Radiesthesia describes a physical ability to detect radiation emitted by a person, animal, object or geographical feature. One of its practitioners, J. Cecil Maby, defined it as "The faculty and study of certain reflexive physical responses of living tissue to various radiations ... resulting in displacement currents and other inductive effects in living tissues." He distinguished it critically from the psychic facility of divination. Despite this distinction, there is no scientific evidence for the existence of the phenomenon and it is classed by the mainstream as pseudoscience.

belief, contradicted by conclusive evidence, that human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) does not cause acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)

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thumb|upright|Samuel A. Cartwright (1793–1863) Drapetomania was a proposed mental illness that, in 1851, American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of enslaved Americans fleeing captivity. This hypothesis was based on the belief that slavery was such an improvement upon the lives of slaves that only those suffering from some form of mental illness would wish to escape.

fat diet based on the presumed diet of Paleolithic humans

thumb|Pietro Longhi: The Charlatan, 1757

Pseudoscientific alternative medicine technique that employs stones and crystals.

traditional Chinese herbal therapy

form of creationism which holds as a central tenet that (as stated in religious texts) the Earth and its lifeforms were created in their present forms by supernatural acts of a deity between approximately 6,000 and 10,000 years ago

Iridology (also known as iridodiagnosis or iridiagnosis) is an alternative medicine technique whose proponents claim that patterns, colors, and other characteristics of the iris can be examined to determine information about a patient's systemic health. Practitioners match their observations to iris charts, which divide the iris into zones that correspond to specific parts of the human body. Iridologists see the eyes as "windows" into the body's state of health.

western cultural food hygiene myth

Mesotherapy (from Greek mesos, "middle", and therapy from Greek therapeia) is a form of alternative medicine which involves intradermal or subcutaneous injections of pharmaceutical preparations, enzymes, hormones, plant extracts, vitamins, and/or other ingredients such as hyaluronic acid. It has no proven clinical efficacy and poor scientific backing. Mesotherapy injections allegedly target adipose fat cells, apparently by inducing lipolysis, rupture and cell death among adipocytes. The stated aim of mesotherapy is to provide the skin with essential nutrients, hydration, and other beneficial c

alternative therapeutic method

medicine based on a hypothetical transfer of "energy"

controversial form of psychotherapy in which the patient recalls traumatic stimuli while doing eye or hand movements

thumb|French parapsychologist [[Charles Richet coined the term xenoglossy in 1905.]]

hypothesis about human evolution

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Pseudomedic practice in traditional Chinese medicine

form of pseudoscientific counseling intervention that stimulates acupressure points while focusing on traumatic situations

pseudo-medicine product; elastic cotton strip with an acrylic adhesive

alleged cure with unclear identity

life-energy path in traditional Chinese medicine

alternative eyesight improvement therapy

taxonomy to categorize human physiques

removal of nonspecific toxins from the colon and intestinal tract considered pseudomedicine

alternative medicine technique

toxic solution of 28% sodium chlorite in distilled water

branch of creationism claiming to provide scientific support for the Genesis creation narrative and disprove/reexplain the scientific facts/theories/paradigms about geology, cosmology, biology, archeology, history, and linguistics

refuted theory behind homeopathic remedies

The EmDrive is a controversial device first proposed in 2001, purported by its inventors to be a reactionless drive. While no mechanism for operation was proposed, this would violate the law of conservation of momentum and other laws of physics. The concept has at times been referred to as a resonant cavity thruster. The idea is generally considered by physicists to be pseudoscience.

dangerous alternative medicine practice for ear cleaning

Chromotherapy, sometimes called color therapy, colorology or cromatherapy, is a pseudoscientific form of alternative medicine which proposes certain diseases can be treated by exposure to certain colors. Its practice is considered to be quackery. Chromotherapists claim to be able to use light in the form of color to balance "energy" lacking from a person's body, whether it be on physical, emotional, spiritual, or mental levels. For example, they thought that shining a colored light on a person would cure constipation. Historically, chromotherapy has been associated with mysticism and occultism

form of alternative medicine

thumb|alt=Two diagrams of a human figure in profile. The one on the left has a hunched posture, whereas the one on the right has an upright posture.|Rolfing's purported improvement of posture

hypothesis

unproven alternative medicine

herbalist theory that herbs resembling various parts of the body can treat ailments of those body parts

Morgellons () is the informal name of a self-diagnosed, scientifically unsubstantiated skin condition in which individuals have sores that they believe contain fibrous material. Morgellons is not well understood, but the general medical consensus is that it is a form of delusional parasitosis, on the psychiatric spectrum. The sores are typically the result of compulsive scratching, and the fibers, when analysed, are consistently found to have originated from cotton and other textiles.

alternative medicine treatment

system of astrology used in the Western world