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==Bibliography== === Works cited === {{refbegin}} * {{cite web|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-fox-sisters-and-the-rap-on-spiritualism-99663697/|last=Abbott|first=K.|date=October 30, 2012|title=The Fox Sisters and the Rap on Spiritualism|work=Smithsonian.com|access-date=19 July 2020|archive-date=19 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200719224127/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-fox-sisters-and-the-rap-on-spiritualism-99663697/|url-status=live}} * {{cite book|last1=Andrews|first1=James Pettit|author-link=James Pettit Andrews|last2=Henry|first2=Robert|author-link2=Robert Henry (minister)|year=1796|title=History of Great Britain, from the death of Henry VIII to the accession of James VI of Scotland to the crown of England|volume=II|publisher=T. Cadell and W. Davies|location=London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QIUUAAAAQAAJ&q=%22pseudo-science%22&pg=PA87|access-date=7 November 2020|archive-date=16 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716200307/https://books.google.com/books?id=QIUUAAAAQAAJ&q=%22pseudo-science%22&pg=PA87|url-status=live}} * {{cite book|last=Blum|first=J.M.|year=1978|title=Pseudoscience and Mental Ability: The Origins and Fallacies of the IQ Controversy |place=New York |publisher=Monthly Review Press}} * {{cite journal|last=Bunge|first=Mario|author-link=Mario Bunge|year=1983a |title=Demarcating science from pseudoscience|journal=Fundamenta Scientiae|volume=3|pages=369β388}} * {{cite book|last=Bunge|first=Mario|url=https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789027716347|title=Epistemology & Methodology II: Understanding the World|year=1983b|publisher=Springer Netherlands|isbn=978-90-277-1634-7|series=Treatise on Basic Philosophy: Volume 6|pages=223β228|access-date=13 June 2020|archive-date=13 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200613205523/https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789027716347|url-status=live}} * {{cite journal|vauthors=Devilly GJ|s2cid=208627667|title=Power therapies and possible threats to the science of psychology and psychiatry|journal=The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry|volume=39 |issue=6|pages=437β445|year=2005|pmid=15943644|doi=10.1080/j.1440-1614.2005.01601.x}} * {{cite arXiv|eprint=physics/0608061|title=Is pseudoscience the solution to science literacy?|author1=C.J. Efthimiou|author2=R. Llewellyn|year=2006|ref={{sfnref|Efthimiou|Llewellyn|2006}}}} * {{cite book|last=Gauch|first=Hugh G.|year=2003|title=Scientific Method in Practice |publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-01708-4|lccn=2002022271}} * {{cite encyclopedia|date=5 May 2021|last=Hansson |first=Sven Ove|title=Science and Pseudo-Science |encyclopedia=[[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]]|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pseudo-science/|issn=1095-5054 }} * {{cite book|last=Moll |first=A. |date=1902 |title=Christian Science, Medicine, and Occultism |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_pcGt5UpnDa0C |publication-place=London |publisher=Rebman}} * {{cite book|last=Ruscio|first=John|title=Clear thinking with psychology : separating sense from nonsense |publisher=Brooks/Cole-Thomson Learning|location=Belmont, CA|year=2002|isbn=978-0-534-53659-6 |oclc=47013264}} * {{cite web|year=2008|editor-first=Carrie|editor-last=Sager|publisher=National Center for Science Education|title=Voices for evolution|url=http://ncse.com/files/pub/evolution/Voices_3e.pdf|access-date=21 May 2010|archive-date=18 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218135536/http://ncse.com/files/pub/evolution/Voices_3e.pdf|url-status=live}} * {{cite book|last=Sagan|first=Carl|author-link=Carl Sagan|year=1994|title=The demon-haunted world|publisher=Ballantine Books|location=New York|isbn=978-0-345-40946-1|title-link=The Demon-Haunted World}} * {{cite book|last=Shermer|first=Michael|author-link=Michael Shermer|year=1997|title=Why people believe weird things: pseudoscience, superstition, and other confusions of our time|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780965594875|url-access=registration|location=New York|publisher=W. H. Freeman and Company|isbn=978-0-7167-3090-3}} * {{cite journal|last=Thagard|first=Paul R.|author-link=Paul Thagard| year=1978|title=Why astrology is a pseudoscience|journal=PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association|volume=1978|issue=1|pages=223β234|issn=0270-8647|doi=10.1086/psaprocbienmeetp.1978.1.192639|s2cid=147050929|url=https://philpapers.org/rec/THAWAI|access-date=5 November 2018|archive-date=28 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328142123/https://philpapers.org/rec/THAWAI|url-status=live}} * {{cite journal |last=Yeates |first=L.B. |date=Autumn 2018 |title=James Braid (II): Mesmerism, Braid's Crucial Experiment, and Braid's Discovery of Neuro-Hypnotism |journal=Australian Journal of Clinical Hypnotherapy & Hypnosis |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=40β92 |url=https://unsw-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/5gm2j3/unsworks_modsunsworks_62996}} {{refend}} ===Further reading=== {{refbegin}} * Alcock, J. (2001). Science vs. Pseudoscience, Nonscience, and Nonsense. ''The Skeptical Inquirer'', '''25'''(3), 50β54. * {{cite book|last=Bauer|first=Henry H.|year=2000|title=Science or Pseudoscience: Magnetic Healing, Psychic Phenomena, and Other Heterodoxies|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-02601-0|url=https://archive.org/details/scienceorpseudos00henr}} * {{cite book|last1=Charpak|first1=Georges|author-link=Georges Charpak|last2=Broch|first2=Henri|language=fr|translator-first1=Bart K.|translator-last1=Holland|year=2004|title=Debunked: Esp, telekinesis, other pseudoscience|publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University Press]]|isbn=978-0-8018-7867-1|url=https://archive.org/details/debunked00geor|url-access=registration|quote=Debunked.}} Originally published 2002 by Odile Jacob as ''Devenez sorciers, devenez savants'' * {{cite book|last=Cioffi|first=Frank|title=Freud and the Question of Pseudoscience|year=1998|publisher=Open Court, division of Carus|location=Chicago and La Salle, Illinois|isbn=978-0-8126-9385-0|pages=[https://archive.org/details/freudquestionof00ciof/page/314 314]|url=https://archive.org/details/freudquestionof00ciof}} * {{cite journal|author=Derksen AA|s2cid=140478903|year=1993|title=The seven sins of pseudo-science |journal=J Gen Phil Sci|volume=24|pages=17β42|doi=10.1007/BF00769513}} * {{cite journal|vauthors=Derksen AA|s2cid=141312494|year=2001|title=The seven strategies of the sophisticated pseudo-scientist: a look into Freud's rhetorical toolbox|journal=J Gen Phil Sci|volume=32 |issue=2|pages=329β350 |doi=10.1023/A:1013100717113}} * Frietsch, Ute, [http://ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/crossroads/knowledge-spaces/ute-frietsch-the-boundaries-of-science-pseudoscience?set_language=en&-C=''The Boundaries of Science/ Pseudoscience''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411124606/http://ieg-ego.eu/en/threads/crossroads/knowledge-spaces/ute-frietsch-the-boundaries-of-science-pseudoscience?set_language=en&-C= |date=11 April 2021 }}, [http://www.ieg-ego.eu/ EGO β European History Online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208042444/http://www.ieg-ego.eu/ |date=8 February 2013 }}, Mainz: [http://www.ieg-mainz.de/likecms/index.php Institute of European History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160219021834/http://www.ieg-mainz.de/likecms/index.php |date=19 February 2016 }}, 2015, retrieved: March 8, 2021 ([https://d-nb.info/1073221725/34 pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716200304/https://d-nb.info/1073221725/34 |date=16 July 2021 }}). * {{cite book|year=1957|vauthors=Gardner M|title=Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science|edition=2nd, revised & expanded|place=Mineola, NY|publisher=[[Dover Publications]]|isbn=978-0-486-20394-2|url=https://archive.org/details/fadsfallaciesinn0000gard|url-access=registration|quote=fads and fallacies.}} Originally published 1952 by G.P. Putnam's Sons, under the title ''In the Name of Science''. * {{cite book|vauthors=Gardner M|year=1990|title=Science β Good, Bad and Bogus|publisher=Prometheus Books|isbn=978-0-87975-573-7|url=https://archive.org/details/sciencegoodbadbo00gard}} ** {{cite journal|date=29 October 1981|author=Little, John|author-link=John Little (academic)|title=Review and useful overview of Gardner's book|journal=[[New Scientist]]|page=320|volume=92|issue=1277|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gfh9AnIDxS8C&q=%22Science+%E2%80%93+Good,+Bad+and+Bogus%22&pg=PA320}} * {{cite book|year=2000|vauthors=Gardner M|title=Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience|place=New York|publisher=W.W. Norton & Company|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z1NdAgAAQBAJ|isbn=978-0-393-32238-5}} * {{cite book|last=Gordon|first=Michael D.|title=On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience|publisher=Oxford University|year=2021|isbn=978-0-19-755576-7}} * {{cite journal|last=Hansson|first=Sven Ove|author-link=Sven Ove Hansson|year=1996 |title=Defining pseudoscience|journal=Philosophia Naturalis|volume=33|pages=169β76}} * Kaufman, Allison B. & Kaufman, James C. (eds.), ''Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science'', The MIT Press, (Cambridge, MA), 2018. {{ISBN|978-0-262-53704-9}} * {{cite journal|author=Martin M|s2cid=22730647|year=1994|title=Pseudoscience, the paranormal, and science education|journal=Science & Education|volume=3|issue=4|pages=1573β901|doi=10.1007/BF00488452 |bibcode=1994Sc&Ed...3..357M}} * {{cite book|title=Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem|last1=Pigliucci |first1=Massimo|author-link1=Massimo Pigliucci|last2=Boudry|first2=Maarten|author-link2=Maarten Boudry|location=Chicago|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=2013|isbn=978-0-226-05196-3}} * {{cite journal|last=Pratkanis|first=Anthony R|author-link=Anthony Pratkanis|year=1995|title=How to Sell a Pseudoscience|journal=Skeptical Inquirer|volume=19|issue=4|pages=19β25|url=http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/pratkanis.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 December 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061211055201/http://www.positiveatheism.org//writ/pratkanis.htm}} * {{cite journal|last=Shermer|first=Michael|author-link=Michael Shermer|year=2011|title=What Is Pseudoscience?: Distinguishing between science and pseudoscience is problematic|journal=Scientific American|volume=305|issue=3|page=92|doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0911-92|pmid=21870452|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-pseudoscience/|access-date=28 April 2018|archive-date=29 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180729171335/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-pseudoscience/|url-status=live}} * {{cite book|first1=Michael|last1=Shermer|first2=Steven J.|last2=Gould|author-link1=Michael Shermer|author-link2=Stephen Jay Gould|year=2002|title=Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time|publisher=Holt Paperbacks|location=New York|isbn=978-0-8050-7089-7}} * {{cite book|author=Wilson F.|year=2000|title=The Logic and Methodology of Science and Pseudoscience |publisher=Canadian Scholars Press|isbn=978-1-55130-175-4}} * {{cite book|year=1994|author=Wolpert, Lewis|s2cid=44724752|author-link=Lewis Wolpert|title=The Unnatural Nature of Science|journal=Lancet|volume=341|issue=8840|page=310|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=67Mr-fhfZmQC|isbn=978-0-674-92981-4|pmid=8093949|doi=10.1016/0140-6736(93)92665-g}} First published 1992 by Faber & Faber, London. {{refend}} {{Commons category}} {{Wiktionary|pseudoscience}} {{wikiquote}} {{Library resources box|by=no|onlinebooks=no|others=no|about=yes|label=Pseudoscience}} {{Pseudoscience|state=expanded}} {{philosophy of science}} {{Positivism}} {{Science and technology studies}} {{Cryptozoology}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:Pseudoscience| ]] [[Category:18th-century neologisms]] [[Category:Barriers to critical thinking]] [[Category:Fringe theory]] [[Category:Deception]]
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