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Pseudoscience
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Unscientific claims wrongly presented as scientific
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Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method. Pseudoscience is often characterized by contradictory, exaggerated or unfalsifiable claims; reliance on confirmation bias rather than rigorous attempts at refutation; lack of openness to...

Subclass of
Pseudo-scholarship
Non-science
Social issue
Misinformation
Different from
fictional field of science or engineering
Superseded theories in science
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