Examples of pseudoscience in the following topics:
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- Pseudoscience is a belief presented as scientific although it is not a product of scientific investigation.
- Pseudoscience is often known as fringe or alternative science.
- Phrenology is a pseudoscience that attempted to determine brain function and personality by analyzing an individual's skull.
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- Eugenics was a prejudicial pseudoscience with roots in the late
19th and early 20th century that gained popularity and impacted American state
and federal laws in the 1920s.
- Eugenics was a popular pseudoscience in the early decades of the 20th century and was promoted through three International Eugenics Congresses between 1912 and 1932.
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- Both psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapies have been criticized for a lack of scientific rigor, sometimes even referred to as "pseudoscience."