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•Ad hoc immunizing hypothesis

–Escape hatch to protect against falsification, usually a loophole or exception for negative findings.

•Lack of self-correction

•Overreliance on anecdotes

–Anecdotes are often not representative, but can’t tell us about cause and effect and are often difficult to verifty.

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The actual image that was on Mars.

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This is what we thought we were viewing when the first image came to us.

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What is the difference between science and pseudoscience?

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What is the difference between science and pseudoscience?

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Pseudoscience does not follow the scientific process.

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Why is it important to recognize pseudoscience?

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Why is it important to recognize pseudoscience?

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Many scientists' ordinary response to pseudoscientific claims is simply to laugh at them. But mythology has always been an important part of human culture, often by giving people the illusion of having some direct control over their lives. This can lead to their becoming advocates for various kinds of health quackery, to commercial scams, and to cult-like organizations. Worst of all, they can pressure political and educational circles to adopt their ideologies.

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•Our brains are predisposed to make order out of disorder and make sense out of nonsense.

•Apophenia is when we find connections among unrelated or random phenomenon.

•Pareidolia is seeing meaningful images in meaningful visual stimuli.

•We believe what we want to believe.

•Many pseudoscientific beliefs offer control over an uncontrollable world.

•Terror management theory and mortality salience.

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Pseudoscience includes beliefs, theories, or practices that have been or are considered scientific, but have no basis in scientific fact. This could mean they were disproved scientifically, can’t be tested or lack evidence to support them.

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A pseudoscience is a belief or process which masquerades as science in an attempt to claim a legitimacy which it would not otherwise be able to achieve on its own terms