Pseudoscience

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These are sites where the idiocy is supported by an appeal to science. The madness of the Recovered Memory and Satanic Ritual Abuse campaigners is included here.

See some answers to scientific nonsense here and here.

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Articles relevant to pseudoscience.

• The 90th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle
• Anatomy of a quack
• The Bear's Progress - SkeptoBear's 2004 World Tour
• The Bermuda Triangle
• Beware! Are invisible rays frying your brain?
• Blackmore's and the Pharmacy Guild - a marriage made in Hell
• CAM or SCAM?
• Checking the facts (1)
• Checking the facts (2)
• A close run thing at the chemist
• Coincidences
• Confirmation bias and denialism
• Confirmation bias, denialism and Morton’s Demon.
• Debating the undebatable
• Denialists Ignore the Science
• The end is nigh! Repent!
• Faith, Fact and Fiction : The demarcation of science and non-science
• Getting risk wrong 1
• Getting risk wrong 2
• Give me my word back.
• Have you heard the one about ... ?
• Homeopathy – so diluted there’s no evidence left.
• I try not to know what just ain’t so
• Knowing things that just ain’t so
• Lying with the truth
• Magic wands (1)
• Magic wands (2)
• The Magical Mystery Museum
• Misremembering the past
• Mobile phones are frying our brains.
• The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
• Multiple Chemical Stupidity?
• My patience is tried
• Obituary - Stephen Jay Gould
• Pasteur's Last Words
• The Power of Coincidence
• Professor Boyd Haley
• Progress? We don’t need no stinking progress.
• Psychic parasites
• Psychic predictions for 2011
• "Psychic" Predictions for 2010
• Psychics predict the future. Do they?
• Psychological testing
• Publication in the peer-reviewed literature
• Science as she is spoke
• The science goes round and round, and it comes out here
• Someone gets upset
• Still Deluded After All These Years
• That dreadful carbon tax
• True Believers
• Understand the numbers? Don’t count on it.
• A very profitable trick
• What's that up in the sky? Is it a …?
• Where were you 40 years ago?
• Why am I a skeptic?
• The WooWoo Credo

Some articles by other people.

• Dumb and dumber at the ABC - Ken McLeod
• Dumb, dumber and really dumb at the ABC - Ken McLeod
• The Grand Academy of Lagado - Jonathon Swift
• Homo Neanderthalensis - H.L. Mencken
• I can smell onions! - Ken McLeod
• The Liver Cleansing Diet - Dr Joe Proietto
• Of Reason and Science - Thomas Hobbes
• On Astrologers - Bertrand Russell
• On the Value of Scepticism - Bertrand Russell
• An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish - Bertrand Russell
• Path to the truth is littered with useful failures - Umberto Eco
• Stupid Skeptic Tricks - D. Owens
• What is a kook? - Michael Davis
• What Is the Soul? - Bertrand Russell

An essay I wrote about skepticism, following the events of September 11, 2001

• The Danger of Knowing for Sure

books about real science.

• 200% Of Nothing : An Eye-Opening Tour Through the Twists and Turns of Math Abuse and Innumeracy by A. K. Dewdney
• The Age of Wonder : How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
• Astrology : True or False? - A Scientific Evaluation by Roger B. Culver and Philip A. Ianna
• Astrology : What's Really in the Stars? by J.V. Stewart
• Astrology Disproved by Lawrence E. Jerome
• Australasian Science
• Bad Astronomy : Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing 'Hoax' by Phil Plait
• Bad Medicine : Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O by Christopher Wanjek
• Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
• The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize by Peter Doherty
• The Best Australian Science Writing 2011 by Stephen Pincock (ed.)
• Big Bang by Simon Singh
• Bizarre Beliefs by Simon Hoggart and Mike Hutchinson
• The Blind Watchmaker : Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins
• The Borderlands of Science : Where Sense Meets Nonsense by Michael Shermer
• Bullshit and Philosophy by Gary L. Hardcastle and George A. Reisch (Editors)
• Bullshit! Season 1 DVD by Penn & Teller
• Bullshit! Season 2 DVD by Penn & Teller
• Bullshit! Season 3 DVD by Penn & Teller
• Bullshit! Season 4 DVD by Penn & Teller
• Bully for Brontosaurus : Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
• Chemical Sensitivity : The Truth About Environmental Illness by Stephen Barrett and Ronald E. Gots
• Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
• Cosmos Boxed Set (Collector's Edition) DVD by Carl Sagan
• Cosmos Magazine
• Cosmos by Carl Sagan
• Deception & Self-Deception : Investigating Psychics by Richard Wiseman
• The Demon-Haunted World : Science As a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
• Denying AIDS by Seth Kalichman
• Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience by Martin Gardner
• The Dose Makes the Poison : A Plain-Language Guide to Toxicology by Alice Ottoboni
• An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural by James Randi
• The Extended Phenotype : The Long Reach of the Gene by Richard Dawkins
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay
• Fear of Food : Environmentalist Scams, Media Mendacity, and the Law of Disparagement by Andrea Arnold
• The Flamingo's Smile : Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
• The Flight from Science and Reason by Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt and Martin W. Lewis
• Flim Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions by James Randi
• Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries : Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology by Kenneth L. Feder
• Full Facts Book of Cold Reading by Ian Rowland
• Goddess Unmasked : The Rise of Neopagan Feminist Spirituality by Philip G. Davis
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift
• Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes by Stephen Jay Gould
• Higher Superstition : The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science by Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt
• How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World by Francis Wheen
• How Not to Test a Psychic: Ten Years of Remarkable Experiments With Renowned Clairvoyant Pavel Stepanek by Martin Gardner
• How to Think about Weird Things : Critical Thinking for a New Age by Theodore Schick and Lewis Vaughn
• How We Believe : The Search for God in an Age of Science by Michael Shermer
• Humbug! by Jef and Theo Clark
• In Pursuit of Satan : The Police and the Occult by Robert D. Hicks
• Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
• Investigating the Unexplained by Melvin Harris
• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
• The Little Black Book Of Scams by Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
• Making Monsters : False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria by Richard Ofshe and Ethan Watters
• The Mask of Nostradamus : The Prophecies of the World's Most Famous Seer by James Randi
• Memory Distortion : How Minds, Brains, and Societies Reconstruct the Past by Daniel L. Schacter (Editor)
• The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
• A Modest Proposal and Other Satires by Jonathan Swift
• The Myth of Repressed Memory : False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Elizabeth Loftus and Katherine Ketcham
• National Science Education Standards
• The New Age : Notes of a Fringe-Watcher by Martin Gardner
• Objections to Astrology by Bart J. Bok and Lawrence E. Jerome
• On the Wild Side by Martin Gardner
• The Panda's Thumb : More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
• A Physicist's Guide to Skepticism by Milton A. Rothman
• Pseudodoxia Epidemica : Or, Enquiries into Very Many Received Tenentes, and Commonly Presumed Truths by Thomas Browne
• Remembering Satan by Lawrence Wright
• River Out of Eden : A Darwinian View of Life by Richard Dawkins
• Science : Good, Bad and Bogus by Martin Gardner
• Science Made Stupid by Tom Weller
• Science Versus Religion by Tad S. Clements
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
• Skeptics and True Believers by Chet Raymo
• The Skeptic's Dictionary : A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions by Robert T. Carroll
• The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal by Lynne Kelly
• Smoke and Mirrors : The Devastating Effect of False Sexual Abuse Claims by Terence W. Campbell
• The Sorcerer of Kings : The Case of Daniel Dunglas Home and William Crookes by Gordon Stein and James Randi
• The Story of Evolution by Joseph McCabe
• The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould
• Superstition : Belief in the Age of Science by Robert Park
• The Theory of Evolution by John Maynard Smith
• The Trouble with Science by Robin Dunbar
• Truth About Uri Geller by James Randi
• Unweaving the Rainbow : Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins
• The Varieties of Scientific Experience : A Personal View of the Search for God by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
• Victims of Memory : Sex Abuse Accusations and Shattered Lives by Mark Pendergrast and Melody Gavigan
• Voodoo Science : The Road from Foolishness to Fraud by Robert Park
• Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic by Martin Gardner
• Why People Believe Weird Things : Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
• Why We Do It : Rethinking Sex and the Selfish Gene by Niles Eldredge
• Wonderful Life : The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould

Books with reviews:

• The Cancer Cure That Worked! by Barry Lynes
• Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner
• Has Science Found God? The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe by Victor Stenger
• Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction by Charles Wynn and Arthur Wiggins
• Science and Religion : Are They Compatible? by Paul Kurtz, Barry Karr and Ranjit Sandhu (Editors)

Books relating to other categories can be found here.

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ABC Got It Backwards
Activator Methods
All News Web The World's First Intergalactic News Service
Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine
American Anti-Vivisection Society
American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) - Whose Interest Does It Serve?
Animal Liberation South Australia
Animal Rights Resource Centre
Answers in Genesis
AntiBio Technologies
Apollo Moon Landings Are Pure Fantasy - Bart Sibrel
ARD Labs - Magnetic Therapy Research
Aspartame (Nutrasweet) Toxicity Information Center - Mark Gold
Aspartame Disease : An Ignored Epidemic - Hyman J. Roberts
Astrology Association of NSW
The Australian Gene Ethics Network
Australian Underground Technology Bases - Rex Gilroy
Awareness Institute
Bob Larson Ministries -- DO WHAT JESUS DID
Boiron
Boyd E. Graves
British Anti-Vivisection Association
Cell salts - Carole Hubbard
Center for Scientific Creation
Christian Geology Ministry
Coast to Coast with George Noory (used to be Art Bell)
Conservapedia - The trusted encyclopedia - Andy Schlafly
Constancy of the Velocity of Light
Creation Facts - Malcolm Bowden
Creation Research Society
Creation Science
Creation Science Association of Alberta
Creation Science Resource
Creation Studies Institute
Creation SuperLibrary
Creation, Dinosaurs and the Flood
Daniel Bible Prophecy - Allen Roy
David Corbett
David Icke
Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard
Dinosaur and Human Footprints Together
DNA Perfection - Toby Alexander
Dowsing Pendulums and Divining Rods - Chris Gozdzik
Dr Bruce Goldberg the hypnotherapist
Dr Horowitz - Aids, Ebola, Vaccines - Leonard Horowitz
The Earth Is Not Moving - Marshall Hall
Educate Yourself - Ken Adachi
The Enterprise Mission - Richard Hoagland
Environmental Working Group
Fishing | Peta.org
Fluoride, Teeth and the Atomic Bomb - A Bedtime Story
Fluoride: Protected Pollutant or Panacea?
Future Generations
Gasatomic fuel saving device
Gentlebirth - Jock Doubleday
Global Country of World Peace
Greenpeace
Health & Wisdom - Leo Rebello
Health Freedom Threats: Codex, FDA, Vaccinations, GMOs
Healthy Food Doesn't Have To Taste NASTY!
Heretical Press
Hippocrates Systems, Holistic Health, Vaccination Detox, VIDS (vaccine induced diseases), Reverse Diseases - Rebecca Carley
How Iams and Proctor and Gamble Cause Animals to Suffer Needlessly
Innovation Technologies and Energy Medicine (ITEM)
Institute for Creation Research
International Coalition for Drug Awareness
James Van Praagh
Jeff Rense
John Edward - Psychic
Jon's Bad Science Awards
Journal of the International Society for Fluoride Research
Laundry Ball :: Your environmental alternative to harsh chemical cleaners
Laura Lee
Lutec Australia Pty Ltd
MADGE - Mothers Are Demystifying Genetic Engineering
MagnaBloc Therapeutic Magnets - Amway
Matrix Energetics Healing Seminars - Dr. Richard Bartlett D.C., N.D.
The Medicine Garden - Homeopathy, Flower Essences, Medical Astrology, Soul Recovery/Extraction, Astrology
Mercury Free and Healthy, The Dental Amalgam Issue
Mindfully.org
Molecular Enhancer
NASA Moon Landin (sic) Hoax - Aulis Publsihers (sic) - David Percy
New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society
Next Armageddon - Nick Archer
Nexus Magazine
Non Pharmaceutical Health Care and Unique Water - Russell Beckett
Orgone Biophysical Research Lab: Orgonomy and Wilhelm Reich
Origins
PAP Ion Magnetic Inductor
PAP Ion Magnetic Inductor comprehensive site for professional users - Panos Pappas
PETA :: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Power Balance Bracelet - Tom O'Dowd
Psychic Challenge and Proof for Homeopathy - John Benneth
Randi Index
Reflexology Research Project
The Repository
Reverse Speech - Voices From The Unconscious - David Oates
RICHPLANET.NET - The Truth is Here, UFO Truth, Crimes of Government Truth - Richard Hall
Ritual Abuse
Ritual Abuse, Ritual Crime and Healing

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