Pseudo Science Paper

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Minimum two () pages - double spaced + REFERENCES CITED page

- You must use a minimum of two (2) peer reviewed journal articles.

- Your other sources must come from academic/professional sources (eg. NASA website).

- However, it is understood that you will also be using sources from your pseudoscientific claim (e.g. Flat Earth Society website). This of course will not be academic/professional.

Choose one example of a pseudoscientific claim to discuss for your paper. Please use the following guideline to help you format your paper:

Introduction

Introduce your topic - historical context, current variations of claims, current status

Give me a brief summary of what I am about to read (especially any arguments that you are making).

Pseudoscience

Make an argument as to why it is pseudoscience. Please you support such as evidence and examples

Are there any truths to its claims? Has this information been debunked or has it just not been tested yet?

What strategies, techniques, etc. does this claim use in order to disguise itself as science?

Consumers

In which ways is this claim being sold to the public?

What strategies, techniques, etc. does this claim use to get people to believe in this claim?

Do you anticipate this claim gaining more believers? Why or why not?

Conclusion

Why are people susceptible to this claim? To pseudoscientific claims in general?

What dangers are associated with a belief in this claim? In pseudoscientific claims in general? (if any).

How can we combat the belief in this claim? In pseudoscientific claims in general?

Provide a brief summary on your main points in this paper.

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Running Head: PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC CLAIM
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Pseudoscientific Claim
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PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC CLAIM

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Pseudoscientific claim
Pseudoscience refers to half-baked science with some parts done with proper scientific
protocol, while other parts are not. Proponents of pseudoscience improperly do things. They
tend to shut their eyes to the inappropriate section, and then let the better part rule their
impression by using ad hoc constructs rather than standardized constructs, or use of nonrandom sample instead of a random sample, and drawing a conclusion without baseline
consultation. Individuals who practice pseudoscience include political group’s activists,
researchers who ignore the best research protocols, and wishful thinkers. Wishful thinking in
Pseudoscience applies among the police officers. Police officers in the United States, use a
polygraph to test and determine whether the suspect is lying or telling the truth. The police use
polygraph results to record the types of answers, then they analyze statements from the
defendants, to determine the phrases used. However, use of polygraph test by the police is
inefficient, baseless and lacks merit since the validity and reliability of the statement analysis
cannot be established (Romesburg, 2009). This paper discusses human living multiple live and
existence of anthropomorphic life in the universe as an example of a pseudo-scientific claim.
Pseudo-science involves making hypotheses, but not putting them to the test. Pseudo-science
does not follow the steps applied in real science, but its assumptions are unverifiable since they
are constructed to be untestable (Romesburg, 2009). According to Regal (2009), past life
memory is just as unlikely as alien abduction memory. Aliens have the power to make their
subjects unable to remember the missing time they experience. Additionally, once human life
is over, their physical body deteriorates, but their soul is reborn into another body through
reincarnation, and as a result, they live many lives which are more interesting than the ones
they currently experienced.

PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC CLAIM

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A pseudoscience claim of reincarnation is a central idea among the Hindu and Buddhists where
they burn their dead at the stake of holy inquisition. Also, people from western countries are
reported to have lived many lives, such as Bridey Murphy’s case hyp...


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