Phrenology is the study of human characteristics according to shape of the skull. It was popular until around the 1900s, when scientists started to discourage against it. Today, it is considered a pseudoscience.
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| Terminology |
- Cargo cult science
- Charlatan
- Crank
- Fringe theory
- Fringe science
- Pseudoarchaeology
- Pseudohistory
- Pseudomathematics
- Junk science
- Paranormal
- Pathological science
- Quackery
- Snake oil
- Superseded scientific theory
- True-believer syndrome
- Voodoo Science
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Topics characterized as pseudoscience | | Medicine | |
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| Related topics |
- Bogdanov affair
- Bourgeois pseudoscience
- Demarcation problem
- Scientific method
- Suppressed research in the Soviet Union
- List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
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| Resources |
- Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
- Cults of Unreason
- An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural
- Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
- Fortean Times
- JREF
- Quackwatch
- Skeptical Inquirer
- The Natural History of Quackery
- The Psychology of the Occult
- The Ragged Edge of Science
- The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience
- The Skeptic's Dictionary
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