Cults of Unreason is a non-fiction book on atypical belief systems, written by Christopher Riche Evans, who was a noted computer scientist and an experimental...

Christopher (1973). Cults of Unreason (hardcover ed.). London: Harrap. ISBN 978-0-245-51870-6. Evans, Christopher (1974). Cults of Unreason (paperback ed.)...

television personality, museum operator, and author. He is the principal host of the Travel Channel series Ghost Adventures. Bagans was born in Washington...

2023. Retrieved November 12, 2007. Christopher Riche Evans (1974). Cults of Unreason. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0-374-13324-7. Chapter 6. Russell...

power, fame, or other advantages through pretense or deception. One example of a charlatan appears in the Canterbury Tales story "The Pardoner's Tale," with...

occur. It is seen as an example of synchronicity, as well as a favorable sign or a suggestion towards the presence of spiritual influence. It is additionally...

syndrome are terms for the alleged medical condition related to the proximity of wind turbines. Proponents claim that these effects include congenital abnormality...

commonly called "personality types"). The test assigns a binary value to each of four categories: introversion or extraversion, sensing or intuition, thinking...

Flat Earth is an archaic and scientifically disproven conception of the Earth's shape as a plane or disk. Many ancient cultures subscribed to a flat-Earth...

Like EMDR, practitioners of this technique use a pointer to direct a client’s eye gaze. Brainspotting has been listed as one of the Trauma Power Therapies...

the scientific phenomenon of increased intestinal permeability commonly known as "leaky gut". Claims for the existence of "leaky gut syndrome" as a distinct...

among the pseudoscientific healing methods used by cults in France to attract members. Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch describes reiki as a "nonsensical method"...

television writer and producer. Her book The Secret is based on the belief of the law of attraction, which claims that thoughts can change a person's life directly...

Chapter 3: The Pharisees' View. Evans, Christopher Riche (1973). Cults of Unreason. Harrap. p. 38. ISBN 0-245-51870-3. I. The Science Fiction Religion...

Unreason. Wadsworth. pp. 24-29. ISBN 0-534-01153-5 Gardner, Martin. (2012 edition, originally published in 1957). Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science...

motor or magnetic motor is a type of perpetual motion machine, which is intended to generate a rotation by means of permanent magnets in stator and rotor...

(born c. 1969) is an American conspiracy theorist, who is one of the leading proponents of, and recruiters for, the discredited flat Earth conspiracy theory...

is the purported ability of water to retain a memory of substances previously dissolved in it even after an arbitrary number of serial dilutions. It has...

Barkun, professor of political science at Syracuse University, posits that the idea of a reptilian conspiracy originated in the fiction of Conan the Barbarian...

founder of chiropractic. Palmer was born in Pickering Township, Canada West, but emigrated to the United States in 1865. He was also an avid proponent of pseudoscientific...

those of Max Gerson, and named his treatment "non-specific metabolic therapy". According to Kelley, cancer is a single disease caused by the lack of certain...

ISBN 9780245543340 Christopher Evans, Cults of Unreason, p. 26 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974) Grubb, David (2008). The Grubb Family of Grubb's Landing, Delaware...

infectious disease, and that the germ theory of disease is wrong. It usually involves arguing that Louis Pasteur's model of infectious disease was wrong, and that...

The concept of indigo children gained popular interest with the publication of a series of books in the late 1990s and the release of several films...

label used to describe someone who sells, promotes, or is a general proponent of some valueless or fraudulent cure, remedy, or solution. The term comes from...

Palmistry is the pseudoscientific practice of fortune-telling through the study of the palm. Also known as palm reading, chiromancy, chirology or cheirology...

In American science fiction of the 1950s and '60s, psionics was a proposed discipline that applied principles of engineering (especially electronics) to...

of Personality, or simply the Enneagram, is a pseudoscientific model of the human psyche which is principally understood and taught as a typology of nine...

Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine. It was conceived in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann. Its...

considered scientific. The division of humankind into biologically separate groups, along with the assignment of particular physical and mental characteristics...