PPT-Pseudoscience:

Project Alpha Chris Lindner UT Austin What weve covered What is science What is a theory What is a valid argument How do we test science What is the impact of pseudoscience Developing your own viewpoints. Why I care if You Waste Your Money. What is Science?. A process, not a recipe:. Get curious. . Ask a question. . Decide how to figure out an answer.. Do an experiment. Make sure you understand what you are doing.. Andrea Chiang Massachusetts Academy of M ath and Science The philosophy of Occam’s Razor is usually credited to a 14 th century Franciscan monk known as William of Ockham. It is a lso known Sorting Fact from Fiction. J. David O’Dell, Ph.D.. Associate Professor of Chemistry. Glenville State College. What is Science?. From Latin . scientia. , meaning knowledge. Often regarded as a knowledge base. Overview. Epistemology. Review pseudoscience video. Characteristics of science. Characteristics of pseudoscience. Epistemology (Ways of Knowing). Authority. Logic. Life experience. Science. Descriptive studies. Lesson 1. Answers to questions 1 & 2. Question 1: . Directional . (one-tailed is . acceptable). Question 2:. 1 . mark for correctly stating that the result is . significant.. 2 . further marks for an explanation: . . Lesson 1. What is meant by pseudoscience?. Name the characteristics of pseudoscience?. Specialist terminology . No progress in the accumulation of knowledge. Evidence based on anecdotal evidence. Proposes unfalsifiable hypotheses. . 12 Stations. Spend 1 minute at each station. Decide which horoscope applies to you the most.. Choose your horoscope. Aquarius. January 20-February 18. 11. Aries. March 21-April 19. 1. Cancer. June 22-July 22. Hui Ping, Xuan Qi, . Chuan. Yin. Contents . Tricks of the trade. How good are these tricks?. The tactics. Create a phantom. Set a rationalization trap. Manufacture source credibility and sincerity. Establish a granfalloon. Phrenology. :. Greeks. . Socrates/Plato . /Aristotle: started asking how the . body and mind were related?. . Rene . Descartes: . “I think therefore I am. ”. Innate. : meaning we are born with it. Overview. What is science?. Science vs. pseudoscience. Scientific . method and . critique. How do we generate research ideas?. Ideas from theory. Ideas from other sources. How do we evaluate research ideas?. Hans . Maes. and . Katrien. . Schaubroeck. , In . Bullshit and Philosophy. , 2006. Some excerpts from Bullshit and Philosophy to kick off discussion. I offer these quotations because they were lines that struck me as interesting and important in exploring what BS is and how it functions. I will present these to you with the hope that you have reactions to these quotes. But first, I have some questions for . Volume 29 284 In this fourth issue of 2018, 10 articles have been brought together. The first five focus on Chemistry. Mexico’s Irma Rojas-Oviedo, Arcelia Meléndez-Ocampo, and Nancy Herrera- G At the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century people in the United States live in a scary and confusing post-truth era of disinformation, fake news, counter-knowledge, weaponized lies, conspiracy theories, magical thinking and sheer irrationalism. In this intellectual climate where many people lack the rudimentary skills to distinguish between contending claims to knowledge or differentiate between fact and opinion, there is a proliferation of purveyors of supernaturalism, pseudoscience and alternative forms of knowledge whose ideas are an affront to the intelligence and sensibilities of rational people. At the same time, here and around the world oppressive religious fundamentalism and violence are on the rise. The merchants of superstition and paranormalism almost in unison are broadcasting with bluster and hubris that science is now defunct and are offering their own truths and ways of knowing as better substitutes. Even our highest government officials are flagrantly declaring that it is impossible to distinguish between fact and opinion, that for every fact there is an alternative fact, and that truth is whatever people want it to be.By posing a direct challenge to science and rationality, the advocates of supernatural and paranormal modes of thought have made their own central epistemological and ontological premises legitimate subjects for critical scrutiny in accordance with the tradition of systematic skepticism. Religion, Supernaturalism, the Paranormal and Pseudoscience provides a comprehensive rejoinder to the challenges posed to science, scientific anthropology, evolutionary theory and rationality. Moreover, scientific anthropological answers are offered for several important questions: Why do humans have the proclivity for the supernatural and the paranormal thinking? Why has humanity remained shackled to sets of ideas inherited from a violent past that have no basis in reality, bestow an illusionary solace, inspire endless cruelties and fervent hatreds, and have come at a high cost? Why have ancient superstitions been maintained as sacred, inviolate truths while other aspects of the archaic belief systems of which they were a part have long been discarded? Why have not humans outgrown religion and paranormal beliefs?This study draws upon the author\'s scientific anthropological background and ethnographic field research of supernatural and paranormal beliefs and practices in several cultures over the course of the last 30 years. It also relies upon the works of numerous skeptics critical historians scientific anthropologists cognitive, evolutionary, experimental and anomalistic psychologists philosophers of science scientists in various fields and many theologians. Science – study of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. can be tested using the scientific method. Pseudoscience- Beliefs or practice where scientific method cannot be applied .