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What Pseudoscience do you Believe? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by allo@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Came across a list of pseudosciences and was fun seeing where im woo woo.

Lunar effect – the belief that the full Moon influences human and animal behavior.

Ley Lines

Accupressure/puncture

Ayurveda

Body Memory

Faith healing

Anyway, list too long to read. I guess Im quite the nonscientific woowoomancer. How about you? What pseudoscience do you believe? Also I believe nearly every stone i find was an ancient indian stone. Also manifesting and or prayer to manipulate via subconscious aligning the future. oh and the ability to subconsciously deeply understand animals, know the future, etc

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[–] Psiczar@aussie.zone 15 points 2 days ago (4 children)

If it’s not provable by science, then I don’t believe it.

[–] chobeat@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Science cannot even prove itself as a method. Science is just spicy epistemology.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Science can't "prove" anything. It is more accurate to say that it reduces the level of uncertainty of hypotheses, but that uncertainty can never be reduced to exactly zero.

[–] Psiczar@aussie.zone 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What is “zero” exactly? Scientists CAN prove unequivocally that the earth is a globe, there is no uncertainty and it is not an hypothesis.

Assuming “zero” is the number of people who don’t believe in an hypothesis, then I agree with you. Despite the overwhelming evidence there are people that believe the world is flat.

The beauty of science is you don’t have to believe in it for it to be real or true.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Scientists CAN prove unequivocally that the earth is a globe, there is no uncertainty and it is not an hypothesis.

Could be a weird confluence of spatial anomalies perfectly mimicking a "globe" to our tests. That's not very likely at all, but it's a non-zero uncertainty.

[–] Psiczar@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Of course, we could all be living in the matrix and nothing is real.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Correct.

[–] Sonor@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Gödel would like to have a word with you

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 days ago

You express plenty of opinions not provable by science in your comment-history.