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.

Articles relevant to pseudoscience.

• The 90th Meeting of the Skeptics' Circle
• The Bear's Progress - SkeptoBear's 2004 World Tour
• The Bermuda Triangle
• CAM or SCAM?
• Coincidences
• Faith, Fact and Fiction : The demarcation of science and non-science
• Have you heard the one about ... ?
• The Magical Mystery Museum
• Multiple Chemical Stupidity?
• Obituary - Stephen Jay Gould
• Pasteur's Last Words
• The Power of Coincidence
• Progress? We don’t need no stinking progress.
• Psychic parasites
• 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
• True Believers
• Why am I a skeptic?

Some articles by other people.

• The Grand Academy of Lagado (Jonathon Swift)
• Homo Neanderthalensis (H.L. Mencken)
• 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
• Australian Skeptics 2008 Convention DVD by Australian Skeptics
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• The Great Skeptic CD2: 23 Years of the Skeptic on CD by Australian Skeptics
• The Great Water Divining DVD by Australian Skeptics
• The Great Water Divining Video by Australian Skeptics
• 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
• James Randi's Amaz!ng Meeting 2 - DVD
• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
• 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
• Nibbling on Einstein's Brain : The Good, the Bad and the Bogus in Science by Diane Swanson
• 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 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
• 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.

There are sites listed in this category.

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ABC Got It Backwards
Activator Methods
Alternative Healing
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
Bob Larson Ministries -- DO WHAT JESUS DID
Boyd E. Graves
Bridge Publications, Inc. publisher of L. Ron Hubbard's works, founder of Scientology Applied Religious Philosophy
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)
Constancy of the Velocity of Light
Creation Homepage
Creation Research Society
Creation Science
Creation Science Association of Alberta
Creation Science Resource
Creation Studies Institute
Creation SuperLibrary
Creation, Dinosaurs and the Flood
David Icke
Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard
Dinosaur and Human Footprints Together
Dowsing Pendulums and Divining Rods (Chris Gozdzik)
Dr. Bruce Goldberg the hypnotherapist
Dr. Horowitz - Aids, Ebola, Vaccines (Leonard Horowitz)
Educate Yourself (Ken Adachi)
The Enterprise Mission (Richard Hoagland)
Environmental Working Group
FishingHurts.com
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
Grand Canyon Noah's Flood (Creationary Catastrophe) interpretive tours
Greenpeace
Healthy Food Doesn't Have To Taste NASTY!
Heretical Press
Hippokrates Systems
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
Klinghardt Academy of Neurobiology (Dietrich Klinghardt)
Laundry Ball :: Your environmental alternative to harsh chemical cleaners
Laura Lee
Lutec Australia Pty Ltd
MagnaBloc Therapeutic Magnets (Amway )
The Medicine Garden - Homeopathy, Flower Essences, Medical Astrology, Soul Recovery/Extraction, Astrology
Mercury Free and Healthy, The Dental Amalgam Issue
Metatech: Top class information on aliens, mind control etc. (Stephanie Relfe)
Mindfully.org
NASA Moon Landin (sic) Hoax - Aulis Publsihers (sic) (David Percy)
New Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society
Nexus Magazine
Non Pharmaceutical Health Care and Unique Water (Russell Beckett)
NutraPoison - The shocking expose of NutraSweet and Political Intrigue
The Oracle at Delphi (Rachal Liu-williams)
Orgone Biophysical Research Lab: Orgonomy and Wilhelm Reich
Origins
PAP Ion Magnetic Inductor
PETA :: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Psychic Challenge and Proof for Homeopathy (John Benneth)
Randi Index
redflagsweekly.com - Raising Issues, Facing Controversies, Exploring Ideas (Nicholas Regush)
Reflexology Research Project
The Repository
Reverse Speech - Voices From The Unconscious (David Oates)
Ritual Abuse
Ritual Abuse, Ritual Crime and Healing
Royal Rife (Richard Loyd)
Sacred Water Inc.
The Scientific Proof of God (George Hammond)
Shaken Babies or Vaccine Damage? (Viera Scheibner)
Spectrum Bioscience
Spinifex Press - Angels of Power
Spinifex Press - Infertility
Spinifex Press - RU 486 - Misconceptions, Myths and Morals
Tax Meat
Uri Geller's Webpage

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