Editing Pseudoscience (section)

===Personalization of issues===
* Tight social groups and [[authoritarian personality]], [[suppression of dissent]] and [[groupthink]] can enhance the adoption of beliefs that have no rational basis. In attempting to confirm their beliefs, the group tends to identify their critics as enemies.{{sfnp|Devilly|2005}}
* Assertion of a conspiracy on the part of the mainstream scientific community, government, or educational facilities to suppress pseudoscientific information. People who make these accusations often compare themselves to [[Galileo Galilei]] and his persecution by the Roman Catholic Church; this comparison is commonly known as the [[Galileo gambit]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.indiana.edu/~c228/Fallacies.pdf | title=Recognizing Microstructural Fallacies | access-date=24 March 2014 | author=Amsden, Brian | pages=22 | archive-date=12 July 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712055955/http://www.indiana.edu/~c228/Fallacies.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref>
* Attacking the motives, character, morality, or competence of critics, rather than their arguments (see ''[[ad hominem]]''){{sfnp|Devilly|2005}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/person.html|title=Ad Hominem and Related Fallacies|website=philosophy.lander.edu|access-date=30 August 2022|archive-date=4 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204164205/http://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/person.html|url-status=live}}</ref>