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The 53 pages that link to Pseudoscience, each with the reason it gives.

• Scientific methodCompared with: It often borrows scientific language while avoiding the method’s exposure to disconfirming evidence.

• FalsifiabilityRelated: Falsifiability is often invoked to assess pseudoscience, but disputed cases show the criterion's limits.

• AlchemyCompared with: The label fits some modern alchemical claims, but obscures alchemy’s varied historical roles.

• Scientific theoryCompared with: Pseudoscientific accounts often mimic theory while evading rigorous testing.

• Feng shuiCompared with: Debates about feng shui often turn on whether particular causal claims are empirically testable.

• Carl SaganCompared with: Sagan repeatedly challenged pseudoscientific claims using skepticism and standards of evidence.

• Barnum effectRelated: The effect can lend apparent credibility to personality claims that lack validated methods.

• Demarcation problemBroader topic: Pseudoscience is the clearest target of proposed criteria for distinguishing science from non-science.

• ParapsychologyCompared with: Debates about parapsychology often concern whether its methods meet those standards.

• Popular scienceCompared with: Popular science can be confused with pseudoscience when persuasive presentation outruns evidential standards.

• CryptozoologyCompared with: Some cryptozoological work is criticized when it avoids standards that distinguish science from pseudoscience.

• Complementary and alternative medicineCompared with: Some CAM claims are criticized as pseudoscientific, though the label does not describe every practice.

• Empirical evidenceCompared with: It can imitate empirical language without accepting rigorous tests of its claims.

• EsotericismCompared with: Esoteric claims may be criticized as pseudoscientific, but the categories are not interchangeable.

• Alternative medicineRelated: Some alternative treatments rely on claims that fail scientific testing, though the category is not identical.

• BiomedicineCompared with: Its claims lack the testing and correction that distinguish biomedical evidence from unsupported assertions.

• Integrative medicineCompared with: Evidence-guided integration excludes claims that lack credible support or resist scientific evaluation.

• James RandiRelated: Randi’s investigations challenged claims that borrowed scientific authority without meeting evidential standards.

• Martin GardnerCompared with: Gardner’s skeptical writing examined why such claims can appear persuasive despite weak evidence.

• Medical misinformationRelated: Some medical misinformation relies on methods or claims presented as science without adequate support.

• Scientific literacyCompared with: Recognizing pseudoscience tests whether scientific standards are understood.

• NumerologyNarrower topic: Numerology's predictive claims are commonly assessed against the standards used to identify pseudoscience.

• ScienceCompared with: Its use of scientific language without comparable scrutiny highlights standards that distinguish science.

• TelepathyRelated: Critics use this label when telepathy claims resist rigorous, reproducible evaluation.

• Vastu ShastraCompared with: Some empirical claims made for Vastu exceed what controlled evidence establishes.

• Academic researchCompared with: Its weak methods and resistance to correction mark a sharp contrast with rigorous inquiry.

• Mokele-mbembeRelated: Claims that Mokele-mbembe is a surviving dinosaur exceed the available evidence.

• Science studiesCompared with: Disputes over pseudoscience expose tensions between social analysis and standards of evidence.

• 2012 phenomenonNarrower topic: Many 2012 catastrophe forecasts borrowed scientific language without evidential support.

• Discovery ChannelCompared with: Programs such as controversial mermaid specials drew criticism for blurring factual television and fabricated claims.

• Extrasensory perceptionRelated: ESP research is often debated through disputes over methods, replication, and scientific demarcation.

• QuackeryRelated: Quackery often borrows scientific language and imagery to make unsupported treatments seem credible.

• Scientific communityCompared with: The contrast highlights the community’s role in scrutinizing evidence and methods.

• Crystal healingNarrower topic: Crystal healing's unsupported causal claims are commonly examined through this framework.

• Emanuel SwedenborgCompared with: Some of Swedenborg’s natural-philosophical claims are assessed against modern scientific standards.

• Sun Language TheoryRelated: Its sweeping ancestry claims relied on resemblance and assertion rather than rigorous linguistic evidence.

• Fringe scienceCompared with: Unlike fringe science, pseudoscience may reject scientific standards rather than remain an unsettled scientific proposal.

• Medical scienceCompared with: It shows why testable claims and reproducible evidence matter in medicine.

• MythBustersCompared with: The series’ tests offered a contrast to accepting extraordinary claims without evidence.

• OrgoneNarrower topic: Orgone theory's unsupported claims and rejected evidence place it within discussions of pseudoscience.

• ProtoscienceCompared with: Unlike protoscience, pseudoscience resists or bypasses the standards that could establish a field.

• Richard BandlerNarrower topic: Critics classify NLP as pseudoscience because its central claims lack reliable empirical support.

• ScientismCompared with: Debates over scientism often turn on how science is distinguished from knowledge it excludes.

• Uri GellerCompared with: Critics classify psychic demonstrations like Geller's as unsupported when they lack reproducible, controlled evidence.

• Bates methodNarrower topic: The method’s central claim conflicts with evidence on the causes and correction of refractive error.

• DrapetomaniaRelated: The diagnosis borrowed medical language without credible evidence or a valid clinical basis.

• Immanuel VelikovskyNarrower topic: Critics commonly classified Velikovsky’s planetary claims as pseudoscientific.

• IridologyRelated: Iridology's unsupported diagnostic mappings are commonly discussed as pseudoscientific claims.

• Ley lineRelated: Earth-energy explanations for ley lines are commonly classified as pseudoscientific.

• Mario BungeRelated: Bunge used methodological and epistemic criteria to distinguish science from pseudoscientific claims.