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Posted by: RAG ( )
Date: November 16, 2011 09:55AM
Pseudoscience Explained

http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/PSEUDOSC/SciPseudosci.htm

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Posted by: rt ( )
Date: November 16, 2011 10:24AM
Re: Pseudoscience Explained

Thank you for a great link!

Here's one for the believers in Book of Mormon historicity:

Intellectual domain: history
Counterculture equivalent: cult anthropology
Examples: Ancient astronauts, Atlantis, extensive pre-Columbian Old World contacts with the Americas, Afrocentrism

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Posted by: RAG ( )
Date: November 16, 2011 10:55AM
And the BOM belongs to the huge, ever growing category of "literary hoaxes"

Just the other day the mayor of West Valley City, Utah was caught in one. Not to mention James Frey, Jayson Blair, Beatrice Sparks, Melvin Dumarr, and these more historical examples:

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/archive/display/category/literary

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Posted by: Jesus Smith ( )
Date: November 16, 2011 10:34AM
Re: Pseudoscience Explained

Thanks for the link, RAG. I had never known about Angle trisectors as a pseudoscience.

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Posted by: baura ( )
Date: November 16, 2011 05:22PM
Re: Pseudoscience Explained

Jesus Smith Wrote:
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> Thanks for the link, RAG. I had never known about
> Angle trisectors as a pseudoscience.

There's a good book about it called "A Budget of Trisections" by Underwood Dudley.

Math professors at prominent universities always get purported angle trisection methods sent to them by the trisectors. I once had a final exam question in an abstract algebra class that was to give a proof that trisecting the angle with compass and straight edge was impossible.

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Posted by: topper ( )
Date: November 16, 2011 02:14PM
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Posted by: Michaelm ( )
Date: November 16, 2011 05:24PM
Re: Pseudoscience Explained

Thank you for the link.

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