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on 8 december 2016 journalist michael v levine pointed out the dangers posed by the natural news website snake oil salesmen have pushed false cures since the dawn of medicine and now websites like natural news flood social media with dangerous anti pharmaceutical anti vaccination and anti gmo pseudoscience that puts millions at risk of contracting preventable illnesses 128 the anti vaccine movement has persuaded large numbers of parents not to vaccinate their children citing pseudoscientific research that links childhood vaccines with the onset of autism 129 these include the study by andrew wakefield which claimed that a combination of gastrointestinal disease and developmental regression which are often seen in children with asd occurred within two weeks of receiving vaccines 130 131 the study was eventually retracted by its publisher and wakefield was stripped of his license to practice medicine 129 alkaline water is water that has a ph of higher than 7 purported to host numerous health benefits with no empirical backing a practitioner known as robert o young who promoted alkaline water and an alkaline diet was sent to jail for 3 years in 2017 for practicing medicine without a license 132 see also antiscience attitudes that reject science and the scientific method credulity willingness or ability to believe that a statement is true factoid invented claim or trivial fact fringe science inquiries far outside of mainstream science fringe theory idea which departs from accepted scholarship in the field list of pseudoscience topics magical thinking belief in the connection of unrelated events not even wrong english phrase normative science aspect of science pseudo scholarship pretended but not actual scholarship pseudolaw falsehood or trickery presented as law pseudomathematics work of mathematical cranks synergetic theory pseudoscientific theory notes definition a pretended or spurious science a collection of related beliefs about the world mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method or as having the status that scientific truths now have oxford english dictionary second edition 1989 many writers on pseudoscience have emphasized that pseudoscience is non science posing as science the foremost modern classic on the subject gardner 1957 bears the title fads and fallacies in the name of science according to brian baigrie 1988 438 w hat is objectionable about these beliefs is that they masquerade as genuinely scientific ones these and many other authors assume that to be pseudoscientific an activity or a teaching has to satisfy the following two criteria hansson 1996 1 it is not scientific and 2 its major proponents try to create the impression that it is scientific 4 claims presented so that they appear to be scientific even though they lack supporting evidence and plausibility p 33 in contrast science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed and inferred phenomena past or present and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation p 17 5 this was the definition adopted by the national science foundation terms regarded as having largely the same meaning but perhaps less disparaging connotations include parascience cryptoscience and anomalistics 6 blum 1978 p 12 yeates emphasis also see moll 1902 pp 44 47 24 most terms in theoretical physics for example do enjoy at least some distinct connections with observables but not of the simple sort that would permit operational definitions in terms of these observables if a restriction in favor of operational definitions were to be followed therefore most of theoretical physics would have to be dismissed as meaningless pseudoscience 49 for an opposing perspective e g chapter 5 of suppression stories by brian martin wollongong fund for intellectual dissent 1997 pp 69 83 we can now propose the following principle of demarcation a theory or discipline which purports to be scientific is pseudoscientific if and only if it has 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