Animals in the Research Laboratory: Science or Pseudoscience?

Animals in the research laboratory: science or pseudoscience?

What distinguishes science from pseudoscience? Is the demarcation linked to the application of the laws of probability? Is it possible to derive any valid law of nature from a finite number of facts? Answers to such questions, and, thus, a construction of a line of demarcation between science and pseudoscience are problems of vital social and political importance. This issue is especially relev...

Social Thinking®: Science, Pseudoscience, or Antiscience?

Today, there are several interventions that can be implemented with individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Most of these interventions have limited to no empirical evidence demonstrating their effectiveness, yet they are widely implemented in home, school, university, and community settings. In 1996, Green wrote a chapter in which she outlined three levels of science: evidence sci...

Study of behavior: Science or pseudoscience

Before starting to write this paper I wanted to be certain of the precise meaning of the word “legacy’’. In the Concise Oxford Dictionary I found that it is “a material or immaterial thing handed down by predecessors”. Thus, I understand that I am here in a role of predecessor, expected to hand over my thoughts about the field of science I have been concerned with throughout my life to the pres...

Science, pseudoscience and Sellick.

remains a much-feared complication of anesthesia. Anesthesiologists commonly refer to patients as being at ‘high risk’ of pulmonary aspiration. Risk means that an unpleasant or dangerous outcome may occur. The frequency of that outcome quantifies the risk. We accept assumptions about ‘risk factors’ that will reduce or increase that frequency, while giving little attention to the evidence. We ta...

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