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Session 2 Steve Lawyer on Science & Pseudoscience

The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria

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The Transition to Pseudoscience

When you think about things like astrology, claims made by astrologists have pretty much stayed the same over the last couple of thousand years. And in spite of incoming evidence to make it very clear that those claims have no basis in reality, there's been no adjusting to that evidence. The other common warning sign for pseudoscience is the overuse of what we call ad hoc or post hoc hypotheses for things.

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