The Ragged Edge of Science is a science book by L. Sprague de Camp, illustrated by Don Simpson. It was first published by Owlswick Press in 1980. The...

lifted the edge of the box, so he could look inside it without others noticing. Science writer Martin Gardner has written that the ignorance of blindfold...

example of synchronicity, as well as a favorable sign or a suggestion towards the presence of spiritual influence. It is additionally thought that the repetition...

This list catalogs well-accepted theories in science and pre-scientific natural philosophy and natural history which have since been superseded by scientific...

from the original on November 7, 2020. Retrieved May 5, 2021. Hvistendahl, Mara (October 11, 2019). "Citizens of the world's Edge". Popular Science. Vol...

prototype of his motor was presented in 1980 in the popular scientific Science & Mechanics Magazine. Further magnet motors were designed by the Japanese...

or "edges" of the Earth. The ancient Norse and Germanic peoples believed in a flat-Earth cosmography with the Earth surrounded by an ocean, with the axis...

Believe about Memory? Implications for the Science and Pseudoscience of Clinical Practice". The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. 60 (12): 541–547. doi:10...

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

Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. ISBN 978-0-805-80507-9. De Camp, Lyon Sprague (1980). The Ragged Edge of Science. Owlswick...

stated, "reiki postulates the existence of a universal energy unknown to science and thus far undetectable surrounding the human body, which practitioners...

that was conducted by the Applied Science and Performance Institute (ASPI) of Tampa, Florida, which studied 33 women who used the FasciaBlaster five days...

promotes, or is a general proponent of some valueless or fraudulent cure, remedy, or solution. The term comes from the "snake oil" that used to be sold as...

humanoids, which play a prominent role in fantasy, science fiction, ufology, and conspiracy theories. The idea of reptilians was popularised by David Icke, an...

advantages through pretense or deception. One example of a charlatan appears in The Pardoner's Tale, with the Pardoner who tricks sinners into buying fake religious...

concept of orgone in medicine or the physical sciences, and research into the concept concluded with the end of the institute. Founded in 1982, the Institute...

but the general medical consensus is that it is a form of delusional parasitosis, on the psychiatric spectrum. The sores are typically the result of compulsive...

political implications. Philosophers debate the nature of science and the general criteria for drawing the line between scientific theories and pseudoscientific...

pathological science is an area of research that simply will not "go away"—long after it was given up on as "false" by the majority of scientists in the field...

"Psychological Types and Teaching Writing". Writing on the Edge. 1 (2). Regents of the University of California: 33. JSTOR 43158643. Myers & Myers 1995,...

Non-specific Effects". Science Based Medicine. Society for SBM. Retrieved 12 July 2020. "Expert opinion on the scientific recognition of the EMDR method (Eye...

Science harshly criticized those who deny the basic premise of global warming, In some contexts, junk science is counterposed to the "sound science"...

Novella writing in Science-Based Medicine in the article "Olympic Pseudoscience'", examined the use of KT in the larger context of "sports-related pseudoscience"...

crossing the midpoint and is thought to have no real impact on one's life, whereas a rhythm at +100% (at the peak of that cycle) would give one an edge in that...

environment. Science writer Martin Gardner suggested that the possibility of sensory leakage during the experiment had not been ruled out: In the first place...

significantly from the accepted scholarship of the time within its field. Fringe theories include the models and proposals of fringe science, as well as similar...

"Scepticism and gullibility: The superstitious and pseudo-scientific beliefs of secondary school students". International Journal of Science Education. 22 (11):...

Spellman, Frank R; Price-Bayer, Joni. (2010). In Defense of Science: Why Scientific Literacy Matters. The Scarecrow Press. p. 81. ISBN 978-1-60590-735-2 "There...

pseudo-science. In astrology, the ascendant, lagna or rising sign at a specified moment (like the moment of birth of a child) is the rāśi on the eastern...

National Academy of Sciences, at the request of the US Army Research Institute,[ambiguous] formed a scientific panel to assess the best evidence for...