18
The Many Kinds of Pseudoscience
Lecture no. 18 from the course: Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills
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Taught by Professor Steven Novella | 34 min | Categories: Professional & Personal Growth
Deconstruct several specific examples of pseudoscience to see how its various features work. You'll investigate the pseudoscience behind iridology (the idea that our irises reflect our health), photographs that claim to capture ghosts, psychic abilities such as precognition, spontaneous human combustion, and more.
24 Lectures
1
The Necessity of Thinking about Thinking
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of 33 min
2
The Neuroscience of Belief
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of 35 min
3
Errors of Perception
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of 33 min
4
Flaws and Fabrications of Memory
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of 33 min
5
Pattern Recognition-Seeing What's Not There
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of 33 min
6
Our Constructed Reality
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of 34 min
7
The Structure and Purpose of Argument
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of 33 min
8
Logic and Logical Fallacies
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of 32 min
9
Heuristics and Cognitive Biases
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of 34 min
10
Poor at Probability-Our Innate Innumeracy
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of 31 min
11
Toward Better Estimates of What's Probable
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of 30 min
12
Culture and Mass Delusions
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of 32 min
13
Philosophy and Presuppositions of Science
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of 30 min
14
Science and the Supernatural
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of 30 min
15
Varieties and Quality of Scientific Evidence
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of 32 min
16
Great Scientific Blunders
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of 31 min
17
Science versus Pseudoscience
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of 33 min
18
The Many Kinds of Pseudoscience
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of 34 min
19
The Trap of Grand Conspiracy Thinking
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of 30 min
20
Denialism-Rejecting Science and History
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of 30 min
21
Marketing, Scams, and Urban Legends
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of 31 min
22
Science, Media, and Democracy
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of 29 min
23
Experts and Scientific Consensus
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of 29 min
24
Critical Thinking and Science in Your Life
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of 32 min
