Pseudoscience is a “claim, belief, or practice which is presented as scientific… but lacks supporting evidence or cannot be reliably tested.”
“Roughly one in three American adults believes in telepathy, ghosts, and extrasensory perception,” a trio of scientists wrote in a 2012 issue of the Astronomy Education Review. “Roughly one in five believes in witches, astrology, clairvoyance, and communication with the dead. Three quarters hold at least one of these beliefs, and a third has four distinct pseudoscientific beliefs.”
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