Science and Pseudoscience - Falsifiability

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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Information Security: Science, Pseudoscience, and Flying Pigs

The state of the science of information security is astonishingly rich with solutions and tools to incrementally and selectively solve the hard problems. In contrast, the state of the actual application of science, and the general knowledge and understanding of the existing science, is lamentably poor. Still we face a dramatically growing dependence on information technology, e.g., the Internet...

Pseudoscience, the Paranormal, and Science Education

The study of pseudoscience and the paranormal is an important but neglected aspect of science education. Given the widespread acceptance of pseudoscientific and paranormal beliefs, science educators need to take seriously the problem of how these can be combated. I propose teaching science students to critically evaluate the claims of pseudoscience and the paranormal, something that can be acco...

Science and pseudoscience in social work practice.

In what case do you like reading so much? What about the type of the science and pseudoscience in social work practice book? The needs to read? Well, everybody has their own reason why should read some books. Mostly, it will relate to their necessity to get knowledge from the book and want to read just to get entertainment. Novels, story book, and other entertaining books become so popular this...