A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions



From Abracadabra to Zombies

topical index: junk science & pseudoscience

acupuncture

Afrocentrism

alchemy

ancient astronauts 

animal magnetism

anthropometry

astrology

astrotherapy

backmasking (backward Satanic messages)

Bermuda triangle

bioharmonics

biorhythms

Blaylock, Russell

blood type diet

Brain Gym®

brain typing

cellular memory

chemtrails

codependency

Consegrity

cosmobiology

craniometry

creationism and creation science 

detoxification therapies

DHEA

Dianetics

DielectroKinetic Laboratories LifeGuard (DKL)

doomsday and doomsday cults

ear candling

electromagnetic field

electro-sensitives

e-meter

EM-Power disc

enneagram

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

facilitated communication

Fisher, Barbara Loe

Charles Fort

frontier medicine

Gerson therapy

global consciousness

Gordon, Jay M.D.

graphology

hollow Earth

Holocaust denial

homeopathy

Hubbard, L. Ron & Scientology

hypnosis

intelligent design

IQ and race

Dr. Eugen Jonas

Rauni Kilde

Q-Ray bracelet

lie detector

Lightning Process

lunar myths (the full moon)

Lysenkoism

malicious animal magnetism

manifesting

"Mars Effect"

maternal impressions

Joseph Mercola

mesmerism 

metoposcopy

microacupuncture

missing link

morphic resonance

Mozart Effect

Multi-frequency discrimination (MFD)

multiple personality disorder

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®

natural

naturopathy

neuro-linguistic programming

New Age psychotherapies

New Thought

N'kisi and the N'kisi Project

occult statistics

optional starting and stopping

organic

orgone energy

parapsychology

pathological science 

penile plethysmograph

personology

The Phil Parker Lightning Process

phrenology

physiognomy

plant perception

The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR)

pseudohistory

pseudoscience

psychoanalysis

pyramidiocy

The Quadro Tracker

Rath, Matthias

repressed memory therapy

reverse speech

Rorschach ink blot test

rumpology

sanpaku

scientology

seeding trial

Zecharia Sitchin's Earth Chronicles

Slick 50 & other oil additives 

speed reading

spontaneous human combustion

Sternberg, Richard

subliminal advertising

superstition

synchronicity

tachyon and takionics

testimonials

Tooth Fairy science (& Fairy Tale science)

Transcendental Meditation (TM)

unconscious mind

Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision 

voodoo science

Joel D. Wallach, "The Mineral Doctor"

Zermatism

Other Sources

Gallery of water-related pseudoscience - Junk science in the marketplace

The Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science by Robert L. Park

Critique of the Junk Science Page

Eric's History of Perpetual Motion and Free Energy Machines

Astrology, Psychic Stuff, and Skepticism maintained by Philip R. "Pib" Burns

Written In The Stars? The History And Psychology Of Western Astrology - Wayne Spencer

Archaeological/Skeptical Resources, Critiques of cult archaeology, Roman Britain links

Bad Astronomy - Phil Plait

Bob Park - What's New - News briefs on pseudoscientific endeavors and the politics of science

Museum of Questionable Medical Devices

Anne's Anti-Quackery & Science Blog

Quackwatch

Confessions of a Quackbuster

The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America by James Harvey Young Ph.D.

The Quack-Files

Fraud & Quackery: Internet Resources: Alternative Medicine

DC's IMPROBABLE SCIENCE page - Professor David Colquhoun, FRS

Ratbags.com

Bad Science - Ben Goldacre, The Guardian

Recommended Reading

Gardner, Martin. Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Discourses on Reflexology, Numerology, Urine Therapy, and Other Dubious Subjects (W.W. Norton & Company, 2000).

Gardner, Martin. Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1957),

Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark (New York: Random House, 1995).

Shermer, Michael. The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense (Oxford University Press, 2001).

Shermer, Michael. Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (W H Freeman & Co.: 1997)

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