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Boskop Man: the social construction of a species.
Boskop Man (Homo capensis) was a claimed hominid from 10,000 years ago. They had remarkably large brains and childlike facial features, and were super-evolved geniuses, with IQs of 150, compared to us...
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Cold fusion: where bad science turns into pseudoscience.
Cold fusion is the claim of nuclear reactions at relatively low temperatures, rather than at millions of degrees. The most commonly-touted system is an electrolytic cell with a palladium cathode...
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Pseudojournals: just like a real scientific journal, only less so.
A pseudojournal is an imitation scientific journal intended to promote and gain respectability for pseudoscience or marketing by claiming that the claims within have been peer reviewed. Skeptics will...
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Parapsychology: where wishful thinking overrides mere impossibility.
Parapsychology is the supposedly scientific study of paranormal phenomena involving the human mind. This includes such things as psychokinesis, clairvoyance, and telepathy. The goal is to apply the...
View ArticleConfabulation: where false memories come from.
Confabulation (also called false memory or pseudomemory) is a term in cognitive psychology defined as a recollection of something that never happened. This can range from something as minor as...
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Gay bowel syndrome: the medicalisation of bigotry.
“Gay bowel syndrome” is a term coined in the mid-1970s to describe a disparate group of ano-rectal disorders reported primarily in gay men. The problem is that it’s neither gay-specific, confined to...
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Nebraska Man.
Nebraska Man (Hesperopithecus haroldcookii) was a hypothetical ape indigenous to North America, proposed in 1922, soon determined to be in error and formally retracted in 1927. The only reason anyone...
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